The Spence

TODAY’s DATE IS AWESOME (and incredibly rare)

However you write it 09/27/2025 or 27/09/2025, it’s a perfect square!!!

3045 x 3045 = 9,272,025

and

5205 x 5205 = 27,092,025

Yeah baby!!!

Has a new AI cracked creative writing? As always, people are divided. Some laud its metafictional genius. Others call it pastiche garbage. Nerd News invites you to be the judge.

Today’s #NerdNews describes an AI model that is claimed to write great creative prose (by the owner of the AI!)

Read the story, read a piece written by the AI, review it & maybe win one of my (100% human written) books and subscribe to (free) #NerdNews

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The Maths of Monkeys!

My latest #NerdNews newsletter explores the mathematics of monkeys and typewriters

Have a read and sign up for my (free!) NerdNews for your weekly geekly hit

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The mathematics and science of Valentine’s Day Beneath the romance, there’s a hidden world - from the geometry of love to evolutionary biology.

Did you know #ValentinesDay may well have its roots in Lupercalia - a pagan purging festival that involved murdering goats, stripping naked & frocking up in their skins!

Have a read and subscribe to my (free!) #NerdNews newsletter for you weekly geek hit

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DeepSeek: Game changer or flash in the pan? A global stock market shock caused by a Chinese AI company that didn’t exist 18 months ago...

Hey BlueSky

My latest (free) NerdNewsletter explains the whole DeepSeek thing

Check it out and subscribe for ongoing (free) geek-dives into the world of tech, maths, AI and all things beautifully nerdy

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Hello 2025 + a brand new year of geekery Instead of saying, “Have a happy 2025”, why not really nerd it up and say, "Have a happy 45²!"

My first NerdNews of 2025 is dedicated to two gorgeous numbers - 25 and 2025

Get your geek on and subscribe to my FREE!!! weekly salute to science, maths and general geekiness

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3 years ago today

Happy Anniversary Leah xxx

Thoughts?

From todays notorious Friday cryptic in the Herald and The Age

“School’s principal station? (5,4)”

HINT; (6) = “schools” + (3) = “principal” to give (5,4) = “station”

🤞

Quality

AI's insatiable power demands Increasing concerns about their rapacious hunger for electricity to power them and water to stop them overheating.

Dropped my latest NerdNews this week on the critical issue of the insatiable energy demands of Generative AI systems

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Lovely clue from todays David Astle cryptic in the Sydney Morning Herald

“Censor tender deed (6)”

HINT; answer = “censor” and is (3) + (3) for the other two words in the clue

🤞

When they said “meet me in the dedicated car wash area” I was assuming something a bit more … how do you say …

Make and Model?

Dr Oz … Linda McMahon … Matt Gaetz …

Like wow

They are serving lunch at the corporate event I’m MCing and the buffet tables are flush against a wall so you can only serve from one side

Snaking long queues

Witnessing the inefficiency is hurting the mathematician in me at a cellular level

And a thrill to have you included @dylanodonnell.bsky.social

Sweet bippy we are literally cooked

Cheers Hino

It’s great to look out and see a few people in the crowd who clearly didn’t listen first time around - and wonder how they got here!

And great work by your mum! Classy lady with impeccable taste

Sure @bsky.app has added a million in a day

But in even more exciting news @adambspencer.bsky.social added 100 already existing bskyers to his new account!

Well this looks like fun

Cheers pickles!