W. E. D. Stokes - Ruddering From LLMs Back Towards Ham Radio

While doing research for a book I'm working on, The Gladych Files, I wondered into the weeds of statistical analysis of LLM AI agent performance which relates to my everyday sort of work in engineering. One of the things I really enjoy about The Gladych Files, however, is that it's never long before the project pulls me back towards ham radio. The statistical analysis project involved determining how often, and with what certainty AI agents could find out that Lucia Hobson was the daughter of Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson and then make the further link that Nikola Tesla was the best man at Rear Admiral Hobson's wedding. While estimating how difficult this was to do with plain old human operated web searches this morning, I came across W. E. D. Stokes!

Stokes came into the picture as Lucia Hobson's husband. What I didn't know was that he was one of the founders of The Radio Club of America. His original interest in radio came from wanting to control a model plane being flown in an armory in New York.

He solved the problem with the help of the head carpenter Hotel Ansonia, a hotel owned by his father. Born in 1896, he was about thirteen years old when he began working on remote controlled planes. The friend of his future father-in-law, Tesla, had built a remote controlled boat in 1898.

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