Meena Tharmarajah

How we are using GPT-4 to label children's books at Huey Books blog.hueybooks.com/labeling-with-…

Tonight @Meeena tells us about Huey - a personalised book recommender for kids 📚 Plus we meet @BenPettingill to find out how @theFieldjobs is connecting people with disability to jobs 👏 Join hosts @starlajo @paul_callaghan @plasmov @3RRRFM 7pm AEDT

“Studies show that 74% of children would read more if they could find books they enjoyed,” says @meeena. This is important, because reading enjoyment is more important than socioeconomic status for a child’s educational success. bit.ly/3s1MH5s

Reread your favorite books annually. You may read thousands of books in your life, but there will only be a few that deeply change you. Reread them every single year. Your experience with the book will change as you do—you'll pick up new perspectives. It's beautiful.

Read Maus, read Night, read Twelve Years a Slave. Give them to your children and then discuss with them about what they read.

@JWestgarth @CultureAmp They’re lucky to have you John!

2022 has begun. I'm back at work, starting a new role as a Delivery Lead @CultureAmp - working with teams that create tools to build organisation culture.

@viveka @NSWHealth There is a fantastic award winning video from a NZ Dr on how to treat mild Covid at home…rnzcgp.org.nz/RNZCGP/News/Co…

@JodieImam @galileovc Thank you so much Jodie!

@galileovc @Meeena I love this solution! Great pitch @Meeena and Caroline

6th up: Wriveted's Huey book-bot helps kids find a book they love to read 📚 Already recommending over 50,000 books to kids and raising borrowing in one school by 40%! Welcome the co-founders @Meeena and Caroline 👏 #gvshowcase

I need some time to think about this poignant, inspiring reflection on what AI could be from @ellenbroad.

Our new AI system learned speech recognition in English with *zero* speech to text training data: researchers just gave it lots of audio, and it figured out what the words were. But it goes way beyond that - it learned Swahili too!

@paulabray @TheOtherPRC @statelibrarynsw @LukeSnarl @unkleho @paulabray you created a space for amazing projects to happen!💥So glad I got to hangout with you at the #DXLab.

After 6+yrs I'm finishing up in the #DXLab @statelibrarynsw So proud of the great work achieved with staff, fellows, drop-ins, partnerships + #GLAMLabs. Thanks to all involved, especially my amazing team @LukeSnarl @unkleho Looking forward to what's next...dxlab.sl.nsw.gov.au/experiments/

Excited to launch STORYBOX in Darling Square today. A digital cube made of solar panels, STORYBOX features a curated program of video art, archives, performances & stories of regeneration & change. cc @DrLaurenCH @deejefferson @matt_levinson more info at bit.ly/3tVbnMr

Every once in a while I feel the need to return to this from Daniel Pennac and Quentin Blake just to remind me what getting kids to read is really about.

@ellenbicknell @stevage1 It’s a bit hard to keep track of this deluge!

@Meeena @stevage1 thanks for clarifying. I didn't realise.

No, see, now we're conflating private activity between two consenting adults with sexual assault. Sure, he probably shouldn't have been doing it while in parliament, but texting a sex worker isn't remotely in the same category as everything else reported recently.

Announcing the 2021 Book of the Year Awards Shortlists, #cbcareview is.gd/5zqVgy

8 yo says he wants to write stories when he grows up, but he also wants to do something to help people. I told him stories do help people, and that for kids in particular books are often a lifeline.