Amy Tabb

Hmm, I think 14-15 years old and up!

I found this book and other ones that were hits at Christmas through Kirkus reviews -- you can filter by age (middle school or high school) as well as genre.

www.kirkusreviews.com/discover-boo...

as they try to survive, level up, and maintain their social numbers (key to surviving).

I've read the second book in the series too, at the moment there are 8 books. Block off a weekend or something, these books took over my life for a while.

Cover of Dungeon Crawler Carl, has a man running with a lit stick of dynamite, followed by a cat with a crown on her head.

[reading rec] Dungeon Crawler Carl, Matt Dinniman. 1st published in 2020, reissued in 2024.

‎ISBN 978-0593820247

I bought this book for one of my teen kids -- the teen loved the book so much, they recommended it to me. Aliens have turned Earth into a reality-show game, join Carl & cat Donut ..

the author made the choices she did, and this section explains those choices well.

The musical discussions are complex and quite beautiful! I don't have (or want?!) historical instruments now, but I am playing pieces by Byrd and Bull on modern piano, 400-year-old music. 3/3

(And more properly, Francis Tregian the Younger, & this is a historical reconstruction / fiction).

I read the book over a month or two & it kept me thinking but didn't take over my life, as some novels do.

There's a section, "Looking for Francis Tregian" in the back, eventually you'll wonder why2/

book cover features the title and a repeating pattern of a man in Renaissance-era clothes sitting at a virginal.

[reading rec] Tregian's Ground: The Life and Sometimes Secret Adventures of Francis Tregian, Gentleman and Musician. Anne Cuneo. Translated from the French by Roland Glasser & Louise Rogers Lalaurie.

ISBN 978-1908276544

The life of Francis Tregian, copyist of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. 1/

Difficult to summarize a collection such as this --- I loved most of the stories, and did not know any of the authors in the collection before reading this book (amazingly).

[reading rec] Sun, stone and shadows : 20 great Mexican short stories / edited by Jorge F. Hernández. 2008.

ISBN 9789681685942

Author selections : Mexican authors born during the first half of the twentieth century. The organization is neat -- by amorphous themes -- "fantastic unreal" etc. 1/

[reading rec] The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson, 2012. ISBN 978-0812992793.

Set in N Korea, an orphan -- who may not be an orphan! -- makes his way in a difficult world. Themes of propaganda and creation of conflicting constraints on thinking & behavior. Reality and identity.

Secret to a successful research career:
1. Get super lucky and have the stars align for your first year
2. Repeat ~40 times
3. Retire

There's a playlist to start each chapter.

I recently started studying piano again w/ a teacher, so the book matched my interests perfectly at the moment. 2/2

[reading rec] Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by pianist Jeremy Denk (2022). ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0812995985
I saw Denk perform, of all places, Purdue U, w Joshua Bell (violin). The book is fantastic -- mix of autobiography, musical analysis, piano playing. 1/

I finished reading Enriquez's _A Sunny Place for Shady People_. I had a tough time getting into the earlier stories in the collection but loved the later ones. Next, I am looking for the Enriquez's other short story collection, _The Dangers of Smoking in Bed_.

This has been a thing for a very long time, not my favorite thing, but when I am at an entomology talk (it happens), I can understand these types of talks better than an in-depth styled talk.

‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office SACRAMENTO, CA—Believing that he was establishing a firm line between who he was as a person and what he did for a living, local man Jordan Wheeler, an employee of Creighton Industries who will ultima...

‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office

My wonderfully weird children are back in school as of today, ahhhh quiet again 🫠

I'm currently reading

Enriquez's _A Sunny Place for Shady People_, trans. McDowell.

Original is _Un lugar soleado para gente sombría_.

[reading rec] Mariana Enriquez, _Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories_, trans. from Spanish by Megan McDowell.

Original is _Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego_, 2016.

Literary fiction / horror stories that I still think about ... despite reading this collection a few years ago.

US revokes nearly 1,500 student visas: Who are the targets? Hundreds of students have had their visas cancelled and find themselves in limbo.

One of my PhD students got their visa revoked. I know of other cases amongst my AI colleagues. This is not what investing in US leadership in AI looks like.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

I've looked for other recordings with a similar sound -- and have not found one except for Stabat Mater. I have a lot of Renaissance stuff with men covering all the parts, countertenors & counter sopranos (Hillard ensemble, Cinquento, Beauty Farm, etc.), or women in soprano & men below. hmmm

Yes, the lines cross, and there's a lot of overlap in range between the two voices. It is now that I realize what your original post meant. (apologies)

Score (?? how authoritative this is) for the nitty gritty.

www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/...

Oh, I love this piece! I sang it in undergrad (I went to a women's college) -- we had women divided into altos and sopranos.

When I hear it, I am hearing the countertenor (Andreas Scholl ) in the alto, and the soprano (Barbara Bonney) in the higher soprano part.

VSLAM-LAB: A Comprehensive Framework for Visual SLAM Methods and Datasets

Alejandro Fontan, Tobias Fischer, Javier Civera, Michael Milford

tl;dr:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.04457

The AI for Science summer school, coorganized by CNRS and U of Chicago will be in Paris, June 30th to july 4th, register asap if you want attend!
datascience.uchicago.edu/events/ai-sc...

Mrs. Blackbird looking for nesting material.

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Just received the first volume, and damn, clearly a ton of effort was put into it!

There's a ~90 page intro to "foundations of complexity science" (which is also sold separately).

(The super interesting) papers each have a 5-10 page intro with historical context, and are full of annotations ❤️

MP-SfM: Monocular Surface Priors for Robust Structure-from-Motion

Zador Pataki, @pesarlin.bsky.social Johannes L. Schonberger, @marcpollefeys.bsky.social
tl;dr: using monodepth to reconstruct w/o co-visible triplets. Many ablations and details. M3Dv2 FTW
demuc.de/papers/patak...

🔥🔥🔥 CV Folks, I have some news! We're organizing a 1-day meeting in center Paris on June 6th before CVPR called CVPR@Paris (similar as NeurIPS@Paris) 🥐🍾🥖🍷

Registration is open (it's free) with priority given to authors of accepted papers: cvprinparis.github.io/CVPR2025InPa...

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