Meena Tharmarajah

CEO / Founder of Huey Books. UX. Data. Kids. Startmate W22

[Brian Thorne @hardbyte_nz]

How we are using GPT-4 to label children's books at Huey Books

https://t.co/n4cgOduImB

[Byte Into IT @byteintoit]

Tonight @Meeena tells us about Huey - a personalised book recommender for kids 📚

Plus we meet @BenPettingill to find out how @theFieldjobs is connecting people with disability to jobs 👏

Join hosts @starlajo @paul_callaghan @plasmov @3RRRFM 7pm AEDT

[Startmate @startmate]

“Studies show that 74% of children would read more if they could find books they enjoyed,” says @meeena. This is important, because reading enjoyment is more important than socioeconomic status for a child’s educational success.
https://t.co/fysHJu0GLB

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Reread your favorite books annually.

You may read thousands of books in your life, but there will only be a few that deeply change you.

Reread them every single year.

Your experience with the book will change as you do—you'll pick up new perspectives.

It's beautiful.

[emily @emdashklatt]

I can’t wait to become a high school English teacher and assign my students a short story so unsettling that it will haunt them for the rest of their lives

[Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz]

Read Maus, read Night, read Twelve Years a Slave. Give them to your children and then discuss with them about what they read.

[Meena Tharmarajah @Meeena]

@JWestgarth @CultureAmp They’re lucky to have you John!

[Meena Tharmarajah @Meeena]

@viveka @NSWHealth There is a fantastic award winning video from a NZ Dr on how to treat mild Covid at home…https://t.co/PcvDaeu1C3

[Meena Tharmarajah @Meeena]

@JodieImam @galileovc Thank you so much Jodie!

[Meena Tharmarajah @Meeena]

I need some time to think about this poignant, inspiring reflection on what AI could be from @ellenbroad.

[Mike Schroepfer @schrep]

Our new AI system learned speech recognition in English with *zero* speech to text training data: researchers just gave it lots of audio, and it figured out what the words were. But it goes way beyond that - it learned Swahili too!

[Meena Tharmarajah @Meeena]

@paulabray @TheOtherPRC @statelibrarynsw @LukeSnarl @unkleho @paulabray you created a space for amazing projects to happen!💥So glad I got to hangout with you at the #DXLab.

[sarah barns @_sarahbarns]

Excited to launch STORYBOX in Darling Square today. A digital cube made of solar panels, STORYBOX features a curated program of video art, archives, performances & stories of regeneration & change. cc @DrLaurenCH @deejefferson @matt_levinson more info at https://t.co/0uGsOFy05F

[Simon Smith @smithsmm]

Every once in a while I feel the need to return to this from Daniel Pennac and Quentin Blake just to remind me what getting kids to read is really about.

[Meena Tharmarajah @Meeena]

@ellenbicknell @stevage1 It’s a bit hard to keep track of this deluge!

[The CBCA @TheCBCA]

Announcing the 2021 Book of the Year Awards Shortlists, #cbcareview https://t.co/9MVFAlNG51

[Paul Graham @paulg]

8 yo says he wants to write stories when he grows up, but he also wants to do something to help people. I told him stories do help people, and that for kids in particular books are often a lifeline.

[Meena Tharmarajah @Meeena]

#march4justice