Free webinars on our Parallel website for kids taking next week's UK Maths Trust Junior Maths Challenge, todat & Sunday at 5pm. More info at parallel.org.uk/circles
You don't need a Parallel account, but logging lets you answer polls + chat to the tutor (the great Junaid Mubeen )

We tutor 220 state school kids EVERY week to increase the number & diversity of excellent mathematicians. In Sept we double our cohort, so we need more great tutors. Can you spare 2 to 10 hrs per week, £27.50/h (it's a good cause). Pls send a note & CV to [email protected]

Thanks Junaid Mubeen for joining me on the Paradigm podcast to talk about #ArtificialIntelligence and education, and shout out to the legendary Simon Singh and Brilliant.org for inspiring much of this conversation. Enjoy! youtu.be/a_lpyK0aIgA

Huge thank you to Simon Singh and Junaid Mubeen for supporting #MathsWeekLDN with a special event next week for KS3 students! Sign up here: bit.ly/3NApinn

#ks3 #londonstudents #mathsquestions #mathswebinar

A year ago, teenagers at Hack Club set out to build the greatest math game ever.

Today, SineRider enters public beta. Experience a mesmerizing world of puzzles infused with love and inspired by the TI-84 🔎.

Hello, world 💖 this is sinerider.com

Smart and stupid: The combination that makes AI so dangerous - my latest Substack:

junaidmubeen.substack.com/p/smart-and-st…

In a new paper, David Smith, Joseph Myers, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and I prove that a polykite that we call 'the hat' is an aperiodic monotile, AKA an einstein. We finally got down to 1! arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798 4/6

#AI can now replicate human voice based on a 3-second sample. Even purely synthetic narrations sound human-like on first listening. So why do they struggle to hold our attention for more than a couple of minutes? Part 1 of a two-part analyis of AI audio junaidmubeen.substack.com/p/should-you-l…

In the last 2 weeks:

Liverpool 2-5 Real Madrid
Real Madrid 0-1 Barcelona
Man Utd 2-1 Barcelona
Liverpool 7-0 Man Utd

Football at its non-transitive best.

ChatGPT has supercharged my (modest) coding skills. But if the AI industry has its way, the era of novice programmers will soon come to an end. So is coding still worth learning?

My latest on Substack 👇

junaidmubeen.substack.com/p/to-code-or-n…

Before Agueroooooo there was Alfonsoooooo. Euro 2000, Spain 4-3 Yugoslavia. As the game spiralled out of control, so did the commentary. My favourite John Motson moment.

youtube.com/watch?v=rzqyc4…

Augmented: The dangers of autocomplete junaidmubeen.substack.com/p/the-dangers-…

ChatGPT and its kind do not yet have a grip on the facts, nor do they cite sources for their claims. This is poised to change as automated referencing becomes the norm. Does that bode well for writers?

My latest on Substack:

junaidmubeen.substack.com/p/can-chatgpt-…

I am Substacking again. 'Augmented' will examine the potential for AI to make us smarter and more productive (and/or not). Thoughts welcome!

junaidmubeen.substack.com/p/introducing-…

Only one week until the brilliant Junaid Mubeen opens our #CoreMathsFestival 🥳
We would love for you to join us: amsp.org.uk/event/8254/

#mathschat #mathscpdchat

if I asked you about startups, you'd probably give me the skinny on about every book and blog post ever written. paul graham. you know a lot about him. essays. y combinator. hacker news. his vision. his investments. the whole works, right?...

My dear friend @FJMubeen & I met at our alma mater St Anne's College last week for a book swap. In Junaid's words, a moment two decades in the making! We agreed our (diminishing) brain capacities still allow for at least one more book each - watch this space for more info!

FESTIVE MATHS QUIZ ALERT!
Simon Singh, Ayliean and I are running a 30-minute, multi-round maths quiz on Zoom, Tue-Thu this week, 6pm GMT. Send along your students and/or come along yourself: calendly.com/mathsmastercla…

First up, we have the incredible Junaid Mubeen on Thursday 26th January with Modelling and estimation: amsp.org.uk/events/details…

Happy 40th birthday to COUNTDOWN! A privilege to have appeared on the show, and still a joy to tune in when I can. Here's to the next 40.