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Caramel reviews The Wild Robot on the Island

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Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 6d

Generative AI is a type of AI but folks have certain expectations. In my conversations about this, I always go back to what AI has been throughout its history, and what kinds of AI there are today and so on, and emphasize how these new tools are different (from e.g. the AI that beat Kasparov).

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 7d

for anyone in the darkness

To a Life in Despair

Don't. Don't go to the bridge.
Don't wake in your coat in the morning light
and carry those stones into the river.
Don't find your father's pistol
in the attic, hidden in the family albums.
Don't. Don't pour the pills
into the whiskey, the walls dissolving
like your childhood. Don't, just don't choose
not to wake.

Stay. Just stay.
Tell yourself you'll do it tomorrow.
You can always walk alone into the darkness.
But not yet. Not yet. Not this soon.
I don't have a reason
to give you. All I have
is the morning, and the autumn wind,
and the child you once were
in the darkness, looking at the new moon
through the ruins, saying
save me, save me, save me,
and the moon looking back
with her vacant
face
saying I promise, I stone-
cold promise
that the face of utter
hopelessness
is the face of something just about to change.

—Joseph Fasano

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The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · 6d

Caramel reviews The Wild Robot on the Island by Peter Brown bookbunnies.blog/2025/10/01/c... #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids #booksky

Caramel has read and loved all three Wild Robot books by Peter Brown. He has also appreciated the Wild Robot movie when it came out last year. Today he is talking to Sprinkles about the most recent…

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics - an online-only, open access, peer reviewed journal | Current Journals | Claremont Colleges

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Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 7d

And for people from other countries who have seen similar moves before...

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Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 8d

Hi Blue Sky! I edit the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. We publish articles, essays, #fiction & #poetry on doing, teaching & living of #mathematics. So far we had more than 850K full-text downloads of our content - why not check us out? scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/ #math #openaccess #mathart

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics - an online-only, open access, peer reviewed journal published by the Claremont Colleges Library.

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Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 8d

Striking #DataVisualization #NumbersHelpYouSee #MathHelpsYouSee

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 8d

Land of the free. Home of the brave.

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The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · 10d

Marshmallow reviews The Witch's Apprentice and Other Stories by Ekta R. Garg bookbunnies.blog/2025/09/27/m... #books #bookreviews #reviews #readingisfun #fairytales #booksky

Marshmallow reviews The Witch’s Apprentice and Other Stories by Ekta R. Garg

The book bunnies love various retellings of the classic fairy tales of the Western tradition, and through the years, they have reviewed many books that offered different takes on them. They also ha…

Caramel reviews The Day The Crayons Made Friends by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

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The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · 13d

Caramel reviews The Day The Crayons Made Friends by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers bookbunnies.blog/2025/09/24/c... #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids #booksky

Today Caramel reviews a brand new picture book, The Day The Crayons Made Friends, written by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, and published in 2025. Caramel reviews The Day The Crayons …

MathFiction: Another New Math (Alex Kasman)

Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 15d

#WestCoastBlues

Dan Bennett @nerdyattorney.bsky.social · 16d

It's tough out here on the West Coast. By the time I rise, the day's events have been filtered through multiple layers of meta-irony and I have to forensically reconstruct them from fragmented jokes.

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Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 18d

You might enjoy reading Alex Kasman's short story "Another New Math" from his collection Reality Conditions. kasmana.people.charleston.edu/MATHFICT/mfv...

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The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · 18d

Marshmallow reviews Digital SAT Manual (Version 8.0) by The Princeton Review bookbunnies.blog/2025/09/20/m... #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #SAT #booksforkids #CollegePrep #booksky

Marshmallow reviews Digital SAT Manual (Version 8.0) by The Princeton Review

Today, Marshmallow is doing something different. She is writing about Digital SAT Manual by The Princeton Review, a test preparation manual. [This is not meant as an advertisement or customer revie…

Caramel reviews Vietnamese Children’s Favorite Stories by Tran Thi Minh Phuoc

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The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · 20d

Caramel reviews Vietnamese Children's Favorite Stories by Tran Thi Minh Phuoc bookbunnies.blog/2025/09/17/c... #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids #booksky

The book bunnies love various retellings of the classic fairy tales of the Western tradition, and through the years, they have reviewed many books that offered different takes on them. They also ha…

30 Best Fairy Tale Blogs and Websites in 2025

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Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 24d

Congratulations to the Book Bunnies!

The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · 24d

Yay! The book bunnies made it! We are on the list of 30 Best Fairy Tale Blogs and Websites in 2025! Check it out: bloggers.feedspot.com/fairy_tale_b... #bookreviews #fairytales #booksky

FeedSpot brings you the best list of Fairy Tale blogs, ranked by relevance, online following, and freshness to keep you connected with the latest voices

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30 Best Fairy Tale Blogs and Websites in 2025

Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 24d

Congratulations to the Book Bunnies!

The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · 24d

Yay! The book bunnies made it! We are on the list of 30 Best Fairy Tale Blogs and Websites in 2025! Check it out: bloggers.feedspot.com/fairy_tale_b... #bookreviews #fairytales #booksky

FeedSpot brings you the best list of Fairy Tale blogs, ranked by relevance, online following, and freshness to keep you connected with the latest voices

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30 Best Fairy Tale Blogs and Websites in 2025

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The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · 24d

Yay! The book bunnies made it! We are on the list of 30 Best Fairy Tale Blogs and Websites in 2025! Check it out: bloggers.feedspot.com/fairy_tale_b... #bookreviews #fairytales #booksky

FeedSpot brings you the best list of Fairy Tale blogs, ranked by relevance, online following, and freshness to keep you connected with the latest voices

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Sprinkles reviews Heroes, Horses, and Harvest Moons: A Cornucopia of Best-Loved Poems

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The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · 24d

Sprinkles reviews Heroes, Horses, and Harvest Moons: A Cornucopia of Best-Loved Poems bookbunnies.blog/2025/09/13/s... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids #poetry

Sprinkles has reviewed several poetry anthologies for the book bunnies blog. Today she is writing about another: Heroes, Horses, and Harvest Moons: A Cornucopia of Best-Loved Poems, edited and intr…

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 27d

This is very interesting. I want to read it more carefully again but it is a neat attempt at understanding why LLMs are not always giving us the same answer and if we can correct that. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati... #LLMs #ChatGPT #AI

Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the...

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The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · 27d

Caramel reviews Space Case: The Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs and Ward Jenkins bookbunnies.blog/2025/09/10/c... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids

Caramel reviews Space Case: The Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs and Ward Jenkins

Caramel has reviewed many books by Stuart Gibbs before. Today he talks about a recent graphic novel adaptation, Space Case: The Graphic Novel, of a 2015 book written by Gibbs; this version was publ…

The world’s greatest mathematician avoided politics. Then Trump cut science funding.

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Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 28d

"People who support all the positive aspects of America have to speak out and fight for them now."

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Terence Tao, a renowned mathematician at UCLA, faced funding challenges after the Trump administration froze federal research funds.

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Gizem Karaali 🧿 @gizem-karaali.bsky.social · 29d

The new issue of the Montana Math Enthusiast has a lot of interesting papers: scholarworks.umt.edu/tme/

The Mathematics Enthusiast | University of Montana

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Books R' Me @booksrme.bsky.social · Sep 4

Grandma Yogini is a delightful journey through love and wisdom! It wraps you in warmth, reminding us that every story has magic. Perfect for little readers seeking adventure and connection. #booksky #books 💖📚✨

The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · Sep 4

Caramel reviews Grandma Yogini by Raven Howell and Alexander Santos bookbunnies.blog/2025/09/03/c... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids #WOW

Caramel reviews Grandma Yogini by Raven Howell and Alexander Santos

Today Caramel reviews Grandma Yogini, a neat picture book written by Raven Howell and illustrated by Alexander Santos. As usual Sprinkles is taking notes and asking questions. The book bunnies are …

Marshmallow reviews Fearful by Lauren Roberts

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The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · Sep 8

Marshmallow reviews Fearful by Lauren Roberts bookbunnies.blog/2025/09/06/m... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #readingisfun

Marshmallow has already read and reviewed the three main books of Lauren Roberts’s Powerless trilogy: Powerless, Reckless, and Fearless. She has also reviewed the novella Powerful, set in t…

Caramel reviews Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee

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The Book Bunnies: Sprinkles, Marshmallow, and Caramel @book-bunnies.bsky.social · Aug 28

Caramel reviews Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee bookbunnies.blog/2025/08/27/c... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids

A while back Marshmallow reviewed Dragon Pearl, a book involving various themes from Korean Mythology, written by Yoon Ha Lee. Today Caramel reviews a second book by the same author, Tiger Honor, p…