You know how it is winter in Australia during your summer? Well, it is also a strickt(est) lockdown & Covid panic time just when the rest of the world is ready to re-open. (And 6 months ago we had summer and were reopening - all fits!)

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.

delight /dɪˈlʌɪt/ (noun) a feeling one experiences when listening to Orwell's Animal Farm narrated by Stephen Fry. Can't recommend enough!💜 audible.com/pd/Orwell-Coll…

A poster I didn’t realise I needed! A taxonomy of distances between [select your representation of [select your class of entities]].

The progress in machine learning is truly overwhelming. the 2300 NeurIPS papers suggest someone is having a brilliant publishable impactful ML idea every four hours!

Exactly 30 years ago - to mark the end of USSR, the Soviet flag was lowered for the very last time and replaced with the Russian Tricolour flag 🇷🇺 youtu.be/LZlscxH0_f4

New level of Wordle appreciation.

Just a 5am tweet to say that I desperately need this book.

This is criminal: Destroying the first 12 pages of a communal copy of Brideshead Revisited and thus making the story start with “Hitler would put them in a gas chamber”. Don’t do it, kids.

It is slightly disconcerting that the authors of “The A-Z of Correct English” are as clueless about the proper use of the word “conscientious” as you are…

You should definitely follow this account!

I need this retweeted

Traditionally - Happy π day!

Haven’t been on Twitter for months and months -> Having cognitive dissonance from all those blue ticks next to no-names.

ChatGPT Vision Can: interpret emotional state based on subtlest nuances of facial expression, even if a person is trying to conceal their real feelings. Can’t: identify a single elementary chord in the sheet music, even when the chord is highlighted.

Incredible psychological realism of DALL-E 3. I asked it to capture the mood of Franz Liszt's Liebestraum No. 3 in a deeply intimate portrait, and it exceeded expectations.

What to do if you want to test the #Grok xAI, but it requires a verified X account. But the last thing you’d want is to have an $8 blue tick next to your name? (Or is it $6 now?..)