Are You Perspicacious?

by | Jan 15, 2026 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers

Can you tell I made a New Year’s resolution to kick my vocabulary up a notch? Perspicacious is a hard word to work into conversation but it pretty accurately describes a Puzzler reader. I like this definition — showing an ability to notice and understand...

Chestnuts

by | Dec 19, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers

Technically the title is The Christmas Song but when a musician calls it on a gig it’s Chestnuts — as in roasting on an open fire. It’s a good lyric full of holiday imagery and it’s a great tune by a guy better known as a singer, arranger and...

A Bill of Goods

by | Nov 13, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers

When my grandmother would say “He sure sold you a bill of goods” there wasn’t anything good about it. The dictionary says the phrase has two meanings. The first is literal, meaning a list of merchandise. But the second meeting seems to be the one...

Continuity

by | Oct 16, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers

I’ve been training new analysts recently, and I thought I would share some thoughts about continuity. Of course signal continuity is important for sensors and probes so we have reliable data to perform actionable analysis. I’ve made this point before and...

GADFly in Action

by | Sep 14, 2025 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers

Years ago, when we noticed that one of the data signatures of a burning valve was an oscillating pattern in the EGT trace, we got excited about the prospect of setting up automatic scans for other parameters. Would we be able to write a program that would identify a...