>Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:24:36 +0100
>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: re'chIv
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>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.
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>De'vID