A gloomy depressing day with a million tasks to complete. And while browsing the Durham University theology staff page I found this list FTFT, which gave me an unexpected delight. It is sad, but the nerdy delight in seeing your name make a list persists decades after leaving school.🤓

A shout out for some fabulous #ProtoIndoEuropean #Etymology/ #linguistic sources to bookmark! 🦉drive.google.com/file/d/1FBifGt… 🦉pielexicon.hum.helsinki.fi

As my birthday party has been pushed to a later start in the evening, I have decided the orchard needs to be lit up by homemade lanterns hanging from the apple trees. Procrastination is the mother of all creativity.

In this post, I tried to lay out, in a non-technical way, where we are in the development of AI, the state of the top five AI models available now, & what the near future of AI is going to be The short answer is that LLMs are going to keep getting better. oneusefulthing.org/p/scaling-the-…

After weeks of being battered by covid, and my abysmal attempts to make sense of BOP elites processes, I am turning my focus over to something more aesthetically pleasing and less intellectually taxing this week.

The rise of modern computing has led to increased accessibility and use of Bayesian statistics in various disciplines, including medical research. A new Review surveys the use of Bayesian methods for the design and analysis of clinical research: hubs.li/Q02Q4PYc0

My birthday parties Queen's Foundation have always been chilled affairs, hoping tonight will come together despite the fact that NONE of the fairy lights we bought for the orchard seems to be working. But despite the post-covid fatigue, I feel like a 6 yr old as I open my presents.

Only at Queen's Foundation can you have a completely eccentric woodland themed birthday bash, that is glorious and perfectly normal in equal measure.

I have come to that age that requires more than 5 people to concurrently light the candles on my cake.

A little over exhausted after last night, I am having a recovery day opening more cards and presents. And among some lovely and kind gifts was this brilliant nugget by Katie Holten | Language of Trees🌳 | Code Red 🇵🇸. Thank you Al Barrett you have excellent taste in books.

What a fabulous birthday present, this has made my day! Thank you Durham University: the library access is always an extraordinary gift, but being associated with colleagues from a department ranked 7th in the world is an incredible privilege!! durham.ac.uk/departments/ac…

It is #superfood Sunday, so #SundayBrunch is #NettleMousse with Spanish Serrano ham and glazed beetroot washed down with Rose! (...and note at least 50% of this plate was grown or foraged on the Queen's Foundation campus) theherbalacademy.com/blog/12-nettle…

Robert Macfarlane Sometimes it is in the algorithm of the dragonfly wing or the flight of the butterfly that has fluttered over this molten rock for 190m yrs. But sometimes, it's in the simple cathedrals of solitude in rock, moss & lake holding the teeming brain in awe in its numinous magnificence