Andrew Wrathall

Tell me your PHP date format.

Mine is ‘j M Y’.

Hey, the Redwood National Park in California is the filming location of the forest moon of Endor in Return of the Jedi.

Which bin do coffee cups go into? Melbourne people are still unsure.

I see

Disgusting white supremacy/ Nazi material posted on Chinese social media from Canberra.

Mandalay Temple destroyed by earthquake.

I’ve got some spooky screen burn on my monitor. I see an image of a desk and a bookshelf, and a drainage hole on the left.

Rangeview Street does have a view of the range.

‘Onyx Storm’ by Rebecca Yarros vs an ONIX storm. 😂😂😂 Publishers might get it.

Wow. A cold shower is better than caffeine! 😂

Are you this keen?

Stop the presses! Book news is happening.

When I type Chinese sentences on XiaoHongShu, nobody has said ‘Your Chinese is so good’, a phrase that means ‘You have a lot of work to do with your Chinese, but it’s good that you’re trying.’

This is a Chinese-language map of Australia, with each state name and a circle around each capital city name.

The creator explains there is a translation error. ‘Coconut milk’ should be translated as 椰浆 (yējiāng), rather than 椰奶 (yēnǎi), because this is the coconut water found in the coconut shell. The 奶 (nǎi) part usually means milk, such as 牛奶 (niúnǎi) meaning cows milk or 豆奶 (dòunǎi) meaning soy milk.

Volume 40 is a Special Volume on Machine Learning, with a paper by Geoffrey E Hinton. Hinton developed the use of the sigmoid function in neural networks. Much of his work has become the basis of large language models (LLMs), such as GPT.

I’m selling 42 editions of Artificial Intelligence Journal 1987-1990. They have become historically important with the rise of ChatGPT.

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Omg. I just heard the bird call of pigeons and realised they are saying the Chinese greeting 大家好.

Maybe Temu isn’t allowed to sell it.

Suki sauce from the MK company is a popular and expensive product in Thai grocery shops in Australia.

The future of Australian small press With the pausing of the Small Press Network earlier this year, many saw it as a death knell for Australian small press. But with a new board, SPN looks set to again champion small press in 2025.

This is a fascinating article on Australian small publishing with an update on the fate of the Small Press Network. I am very pleased to have rejoined the board of the organisation and look forward to doing whatever I can to help small publishers.

Does Troye Sivan know Japanese?

‘I feel the rush
Addicted to your touch
Oh, I feel the rush
急ぐ急ぐ’

Deactivating the old account was like pulling teeth, but I knew it had to be done.