IR Thoughts

Goal: Testing AI with word “ladder” games.

Speculated many years ago, speculated by Walter Russell, somehow pondered by Tesla, they are documented now in 2025.

Stated back about 10 years ago at Minerazzi.com index page: “Because staring at search results ended with the last century.”

David Ruelle, in a review of Henri Poincaré’s Science et Méthode, Nature 391, 760 (1988) and reproduced in page 1113 of Am.

Robots can be made smarter if they can plan complex behaviors with real-time computations, rather than with predesigned or previously learned routines.

Here is a list of 9 scientific breakthroughs from Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt.

In a previous post, we described how to run PHP scripts from a local copy of IIS.

Don’t be fooled by the apparently ridiculous name of this command.

System Files Checker (SFC) is a tool that can be run under Command Prompt (CMD).

Repairing corrupted files in Windows computers can be done with the Command Prompt check disk tool (CHKDSK).

Creating or undoing system restore points in Windows 11 To create a restore point: In the search box on the taskbar, type Create a restore point, and select it from the list of results.

This tutorial applies to installations on a local computer with Windows 11, which comes with Internet Information Services (IIS).

An old post describes how to install IIS on Windows 11 .

Oldie, but goodie: The SATOR square, SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS This is one the most well-known unsolved word puzzles, with a history of at least two millennia.

Should we report a ratio of averages (RA) or an average of ratios (AR)?

If A is a 3×3 matrix with eigenvalues 2, 3, 5, and B is its inverse matrix.

Artificial Intelligence and Brain Decoding (“mind reading”) https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/23/tech/chatgpt-mind-reading/index.html We are getting closer to Mind Retrieval.

Back in May 9, 2019 a Unicode mnemonic for recalling the decimal notation of common diacritics was presented.

A Statistical Approach to Automated Generation of Totem-like Patterns by Drawing Straight Lines If something is part random and part deterministic, it’s called a statistical or probabilistic relationship.

What do you see in these three totem-like images?

What do you see in this image generated with a code I partially built with chatGPT?

3/14 is Pi Day (Pi = 3.14), so Happy Birthday, to all Sons of Pi.

If you enjoyed the 20 Chemistry Jokes I posted on LinkedIn, courtesy of chatGPT, here’s another treat.

Some times we just need to take a break, relax, and read some corny jokes.

Windows 11 and 10 already come with curl https://curl.se/windows/microsoft.html To run curl from Command Prompt, PowerShell, and PowerShell SE, type curl -v uri where -v is verbose mode and uri is the one of interest.

The Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) Calculator is our newest PHP/AJAX Physiology tool.

We just launched an ABSI Calculator This one combines PHP, nested AJAX calls and some trickery, supports forward and backward calculations, and allows users combine units from the metric and english systems.

Back in 2013, Nick Trefethen, Professor of Numerical Analysis, University of Oxford and Head of Oxford’s Numerical Analysis Group (https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/index.html) proposed a new body mass index equation (https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/t…

Back to the gym to burn fat.

The Chemical Reactions Writer (CRW) converts chemical reactions typed with a keyboard to a literature accepted style.

Just go to http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/X where X is a netflix code.

How to calculate spin-only magnetic moments without using a calculator?

This post is part of a previous one on anagrams.

An anagram is a word or phrase, called the subject, that is formed by changing the order of the letters in another word or phrase.

According to this Windows 12 video concept, the next take of the operating system plays with an all-new start menu, desktop widgets, new file explorer, windows messenger, new volume UI, and more.

If one has a theory but no experimental results, one might have nothing.

The Problem: Sometimes PowerShell ISE returns the following TLS-triggered error when one implements Invoke-WebRequest or Invoke-RestMethod during a session: “The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive…” (https://stacko…

In a previous post I described the installation of Whois on Windows 11 from Microsoft SysInternals site (https://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2021/12/29/installing-whois-on-windows-11/).

In a previous post, I explained how I installed an IIS web server on my brand new Windows 11 computer.

I finally got my brand new laptop computer with Windows 11 and all the perks.

A 1967 interview of de Broglie, available in video format at https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/afe04002106/monsieur-de-broglie inspired me to build an equation solver for the super famous de Broglie’s Equation.

We initially defined a recursive form (RF) as an HTML form that uses its previous output as its new input.

2021 Nobel Prize Awarded Physics https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2021/summary/ Medicine https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2021/summary/ Sources: Noble Prize Organization https://www.nobelprize.org Noble Prize Searches http://minerazzi.c…

The Extended Boolean Model for Information Retrieval.

Introducing Recursive Searches (http://www.minerazzi.com/tools/recursive-searches/recursive-searches.php): A proof of concept for the notion of Recursive Forms.

The NIH Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) has an oldie but goodie documentation on cosine similarity and overlapping values at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/vsac/support/userforum/VSACUsersForum12.pdf Happy to see they quoted one of my posts: https://irthoughts…

Recursive Mini Converters is our newest tool.

This tool, The Significant Figures Calculator, lets users compute and edit significant figures.

I always wanted to have an easy way of accessing news videos from national TV channels, without having to subscribe to them or pay for third-party tools that do this.

Arguments on why string concatenation loops (SCL) is a bad programming practice were given in a previous post.