Testing AI with word “ladder” games
Goal: Testing AI with word ladder games. Challenge:Find the shortest path to change the word WHITE to BLACK. Game Rules:Change More
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Super-solid Phase: A new kind of materials made of “crystallized” light
Speculated many years ago, speculated by Walter Russell, somehow pondered by Tesla, they are documented now in 2025. Possible applications More
Still staring at search results?
Stated back about 10 years ago at Minerazzi.com index page: Because staring at search results ended with the last century. More
Poincaré’s Method
David Ruelle, in a review of Henri Poincaré s Science et Méthode, Nature 391, 760 (1988) and reproduced in page 1113 More
Making smarter robots
Robots can be made smarter if they can plan complex behaviors with real-time computations, rather than with predesigned or previously More
9 breakthroughs from Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt
Here is a list of 9 scientific breakthroughs from Napoleon s invasion of Egypt. Oldie but Goodie. I found #6 (the More
Testing PHP Files with PHP built-in Web Server
In a previous post, we described how to run PHP scripts from a local copy of IIS. This time we More
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the whoami (“Who Am I”) command
Don t be fooled by the apparently ridiculous name of this command. If you are in a shared environment, have administrative More
Repairing Protected System Files with SFC
System Files Checker (SFC) is a tool that can be run under Command Prompt (CMD). The tool scans the integrity More
Repairing corrupted files with Command Prompt CHKDSK tool
Repairing corrupted files in Windows computers can be done with the Command Prompt check disk tool (CHKDSK). Using Command Prompt More
Creating or undoing system restore points in Windows 11
Creating or undoing system restore points in Windows 11 To create a restore point: To undo a restore point:
Installing PHP locally on a Windows 11 Internet Information Services (IIS) Environment
This tutorial applies to installations on a local computer with Windows 11, which comes with Internet Information Services (IIS). The More
Missing IIS after reinstalling Windows 11?
An old post describes how to install IIS on Windows 11 . After a Windows reinstall, however, you may need More
SATOR Square: An unsolved puzzle?
Oldie, but goodie: The SATOR square, SATORAREPOTENETOPERAROTAS This is one the most well-known unsolved word puzzles, with a history of More
Ratio of averages or average of ratios?
Should we report a ratio of averages (RA) or an average of ratios (AR)? The answer depends on what we More
Having Fun with Eigenvalues
If A is a 3 3 matrix with eigenvalues 2, 3, 5, and B is its inverse matrix. Then: Trace of More
Artificial Intelligence, Brain Decoding, and Mind Reading. A step closer to Mind Retrieval
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. Check relevant posts on this More
Unicode mnemonic for common diacritics
Back in May 9, 2019 a Unicode mnemonic for recalling the decimal notation of common diacritics was presented. A tutorial More
A Statistical Approach to Automated Generation of Totem-like Patterns by Drawing Straight Lines
A Statistical Approach to Automated Generation of Totem-like Patterns by Drawing Straight Lines If something is part random and part More
Automatic Generation of Totem-like Patterns by Drawing Straight Lines
Automatic Generation of Totem-like Patterns by Drawing Lines and that change with the viewing distance is now possible.
AI Drawings
What do you see in this image generated with a code I partially built with chatGPT?
Sons of Pi
3/14 is Pi Day (Pi = 3.14), so Happy Birthday, to all Sons of Pi. Here is a 100-list of More
20 LinkedIn jokes requested to chatGPT
If you enjoyed the 20 Chemistry Jokes I posted on LinkedIn, courtesy of chatGPT, here s another treat. I requested chatGPT More
20 Chemistry Jokes from chatGPT
Some times we just need to take a break, relax, and read some corny jokes. I asked chatGPT to write More
Running curl from Command Prompt, PowerShell, and PowerShell SE
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 More
Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) Calculator
The Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) Calculator is our newest PHP/AJAX Physiology tool. We used ChatGPT to rewrite its page text More
A Body Shape Index (ABSI) Calculator
We just launched an ABSI Calculator This one combines PHP, nested AJAX calls and some trickery, supports forward and backward More
A Tool for Trefethen’s Equation
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) More
Body Mass Index Resources
Back to the gym to burn fat. Here is a revamped tool and complementary readings on the body mass index More
Chemical Reactions Writer
The Chemical Reactions Writer (CRW) converts chemical reactions typed with a keyboard to a literature accepted style. The results can More
Accessing Netflix “secret” codes
Just go to http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/X where X is a netflix code. Netflix code lists are available all over the Web by More
Mnemonic and Heuristic for Estimating Spin-only Magnetic Moments
How to calculate spin-only magnetic moments without using a calculator? Here is a mnemonic and heuristic that comes to the More
albert einstein is internet able
This post is part of a previous one on anagrams. In this context the title is accurate. albert einstein = More
Anagrams
An anagram is a word or phrase, called the subject, that is formed by changing the order of the letters More
Getting ready for Windows 12
According to this Windows 12 video concept, the next take of the operating system plays with an all-new start menu, More
Cooking Ingredient Converters
If one has a theory but no experimental results, one might have nothing. And if one has a theory without More
Enabling TLS1.2 in PowerShell and Getting Ready for Windows Terminal
The Problem: Sometimes PowerShell ISE returns the following TLS-triggered error when one implements Invoke-WebRequest or Invoke-RestMethod during a session: The More
Running Whois and Crawling URIs from PowerShell
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/). This time More
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.(https://irthoughts.wordpress.com/2021/12/25/installing-iis-web-server-on-windows-11/). More
Installing IIS Web Server on Windows 11
I finally got my brand new laptop computer with Windows 11 and all the perks. One of the first things More
de Broglie Equation Solver Tool
A 1967 interview of de Broglie, available in video format athttps://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/afe04002106/monsieur-de-broglieinspired me to build an equation solver for the super More
Planck’s Equation Solver
We initially defined a recursive form (RF) as an HTML form that uses its previous output as its new input. More
2021 Nobel Prizes
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.orgNoble Prize Searches http://minerazzi.com/nobel-prize/
The Extended Boolean Model for Information Retrieval
The Extended Boolean Model for Information Retrieval. This is an IR tutorial I wrote circa 2006 (http://www.minerazzi.com/tutorials/term-vector-6.pdf). It may be More
Introducing Recursive Searches
Introducing Recursive Searches (http://www.minerazzi.com/tools/recursive-searches/recursive-searches.php): A proof of concept for the notion of Recursive Forms. This tool recursively searches a two-dimensional More
Cosine Similarity and Overlapping Values
The NIH Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) has an oldie but goodie documentation on cosine similarity and overlapping values at More
Recursive Mini Converters
Recursive Mini Converters is our newest tool. This tool is a proof of concept for the notion of recursive forms More
Significant Figures Calculator
This tool, The Significant Figures Calculator, lets users compute and edit significant figures. The tool is based on the theory More
The Video Finder
I always wanted to have an easy way of accessing news videos from national TV channels, without having to subscribe More
Fast reverse complement computation of DNA sequences without string concatenation loops
Arguments on why string concatenation loops (SCL) is a bad programming practice were given in a previous post. You can More