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Pink card with cogwheel design on one side and a question on the other about silk dresses being expensive due to the war with China. Marked "Conversation cards", "Babbage's soirée", opium war and trade.
Teaching

Larping Babbage’s soirees

I’m developing a larp where participants play guests at one of Charles Babbage’s Saturday night soirées in the 1840s. Here’s a sneak peak – I hope to publish the materials later this spring.

closeup of red Australian flowers
AI STORIES Presentations

Australia tour 2025!

I’m in Australia! Hooray! My mum and dad and sister and I moved from Perth to Bergen when I was a kid, and ever since I’ve loved two homes: Australia and Norway. Walking off the plane last night and breathing in the […]

AI STORIES

Do language models think in English?

That’s almost the title of a paper I read today, Do Multilingual LLMs Think In English?, which uses several methods to poke into what a language model actually does when responding to a prompt in a language other than English. Spoiler: it […]

LLMs fail at 70% of simple office tasks

Occasionally I love ChatGPT. Like when I gave it a research paper I’d written and the itinerary for my planned trip to Australia this November and asked it to look for related art exhibitions I should visit or people to meet and […]