Ising latch machines? chaq. Can't say I've heard of them myself. Then there's the Dany headphone manufacturer. I discovered the name when I was trying to figure out the etymology/pun behind *DannI'* (which was my chabal tetlh request, BTW). Maybe that's it, maybe that's not it, but I can't imagine what else it would be.
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:24:36 +0100 From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: re'chIv Message-ID: <CA+7zAmNRTRQRGzM-q4mcGXY_j1hFODXVW+BeQtXbK1Yru+uo5A@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
I think what I'm about to describe is very likely a real coincidence (as in, unintended by Marc Okrand), but an Ising machine is a type of computing device which uses the Ising model (named after physicist Ernst Ising), and a latch is a circuit with two stable states, and there are in fact such things as latch Ising machines, but unless Okrand is *really* into electronics, I doubt this is the inspiration behind the word. Although, who knows, maybe he was looking for inspiration and just happened upon the term.
-- De'vID