Strangers Dining - Sydney College of the Arts - Kangaroo paws replace petunias as Perth's gardens shift to native flora

 1 December, 6pm

Sydney College of the Arts and Online

At the end of each academic year, we celebrate our graduating cohort and the culmination of their collective research and practice-based outcomes.

Kangaroo paws replace petunias as Perth's gardens shift to native flora

What is for lunch at Parliament House

FINE DINING AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE

🎼 Tunes by Sarsha Simone Dj's at Tiffany

From Cold River to Moon River

The Woks of Life Is Shaping Chinese Home Cooking in America. And It’s Only Getting Started

bon appetit – “Since 2013, the Leungs have published hundreds of recipes that now receive millions of views every month, and they’ve solidified their reputation as a trusted resource with detailed guides that walk home cooks through the necessary equipment and ingredients to make their dishes. Over the years, they’ve garnered a cult-like following among chefs and Chinese cooking enthusiasts alike. 

The chef J. Kenji López-Alt says the Leungs’ recipes, both inspirational and functional, have helped him bring his own family around the dinner table. “The Leungs are as real as it gets,” he says. The cookbook author and restaurateur Molly Yeh writes in an email that the Leungs’ “knowledge of Chinese cooking is encyclopedic.” Friends tell me they and their relatives consult the blog all the time, which I can relate to—The Woks of Life is about the only site my entire family consults, including my father, who notoriously shirks recipes.”

Is Wine Fake? Asterisk

Google has a secret new project that is teaching artificial intelligence to write and fix code The Insider

The Insider – “It could reduce the need for human engineers in the future. Google is working on a secretive project that uses machine learning to train code to write, fix, and update itself. This project is part of a broader push by Google into so-called generative artificial intelligence, which uses algorithms to create images, videos, code, and more. It could have profound implications for the company’s future and developers who write code. 

The project, which began life inside Alphabet’s X research unit and was codenamed Pitchfork, moved into Google’s Labs group this summer, according to people familiar with the matter. By moving into Google, it signaled its increased importance to leaders. Google Labs pursues long-term bets, including projects in virtual and augmented reality. 

Pitchfork is now part of a new group at Labs named the AI Developer Assistance team run by Olivia Hatalsky, a long-term X employee who worked on Google Glass and several other moonshot projects. Hatalsky, who ran Pitchfork at X, moved to Labs when it migrated this past summer. Pitchfork was built for “teaching code to write and rewrite itself,” according to internal materials seen by Insider. The tool is designed to learn programming styles and write new code based on those learnings, according to people familiar with it and patents reviewed by Insider…”

See also The New York Times: “Lawsuit Takes Aim at the Way A.I. Is Built. A programmer is suing Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI over artificial intelligence technology that generates its own computer code.”