Copasetic Flow

 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 mod...

While doing some research on science journalist of the '50s, Michael Gladych, I come across other interesting science journalists as well.  One of them is Ansel Talbert of the New York Herald Tribune.  Looking into Mr. Talbert's travel in the '50s, I found that he'd taken a flight from Denmark to Alaska.  At first, the only remarkable thing about the flight was that HRH Prince Axel of Denmark and Iceland was on board, (if you're from the Sates like me, I bet you didn't know there was a prince of Denmark and Iceland!) A little investigation made even this fact seem trite when Prince Axel was revealed as the CEO of SAS airlines, the carrier for the flight in question.  Not all was lost though... Far from it! It turns out the flight was the first commercial flight to take advantage of the U.S. Air Force's newly released polar maps!  For the first time ever, a group of passengers flew from Denmark to Tokyo, stopping only in Alaska, in just 8,000 mile...