#IRThoughts

Goal: Testing AI with word “ladder” games. Challenge:Find the shortest path to change the word WHITE to BLACK. Game Rules:Change one letter at a time and using valid words, only. Result…

System Files Checker (SFC) is a tool that can be run under Command Prompt (CMD). The tool scans the integrity … More

Repairing corrupted files in Windows computers can be done with the Command Prompt check disk tool (CHKDSK). Using Command Prompt Open Command Prompt (that famous black window). The term “command p…

Don’t be fooled by the apparently ridiculous name of this command. If you are in a shared environment, have administrative … More

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. On the Syst…

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

This tutorial applies to installations on a local computer with Windows 11, which comes with Internet Information Services (IIS). The tutorial does not use the Web Platform Installer (WebPI) as it …

Here is a list of 9 scientific breakthroughs from Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. Oldie but Goodie. I found #6 (the … More

An old post describes how to install IIS on Windows 11 . After a Windows reinstall, however, you may need to make IIS available to your system. Go to Control Panel > Programs > Programs and F…

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

Oldie, but goodie: The SATOR square,SATORAREPOTENETOPERAROTASThis is one the most well-known unsolved word puzzles, with a history of at least two millennia. Note the TENET cross at the center.The …

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

Should we report a ratio of averages (RA) or an average of ratios (AR)? The answer depends on what we want to average and how. By definition, things that are not additive cannot be averaged in the …

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

If A is a 3×3 matrix with eigenvalues 2, 3, 5, and B is its inverse matrix. Then: Trace of A is 2 + 3 + 5 = 10. Determinant of A is (2)(3)(5) = 30. Trace of B is 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/5 = 1.033… Deter…

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

Artificial Intelligence and Brain Decoding (“mind reading”) We are getting closer to Mind Retrieval. Check relevant posts on this at

Back in May 9, 2019 a Unicode mnemonic for recalling the decimal notation of common diacritics was presented. A tutorial was also presented. That was aimed at finding patterns in the Unicode system…

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 …

Automatic Generation of Totem-like Patterns by Drawing Lines and that change with the viewing distance is now possible.