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Professor Jason Arday: A Life In Tatters

Professor Jason Arday (JA) It is difficult to write this without seeming to be piling more abuse on a man who is now dead and unable to defend himself. In fact, my feeling is that the real story is about Cambridge University and how they came to appoint him and how they circled the wagons rather than look at the matter head on when things seemed not right. And similarly for previous institutions that appointed him. The allegation is of course that these institutions fell over backwards in their determination not to see JA's colour for fear that they would be prejudiced or seen as prejudiced. C

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The Baltic Exchange Bombing

The IRA bombing of the Baltic Exchange might have seemed to the owners of the Exchange to be the end. In fact, it turned out to be the very platform from which the Exchange could reinvent itself and swap excess debt for cash in hand. The Baltic Exchange is currently located on the 5th floor of 77 Leadenhall Street in the City of London. It takes a lease from WeWork, which lets out flexible workspace across several floors. Before its move to Leadenhall Street The Baltic Exchange was located at 24–28 St Mary Axe. It operated there from 1903 until the IRA bombing on 10th April 1992, the day after

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Inside and Outside

Of all the sensations that a person might feel, feeling inside of something or outside of something is the strongest and most central because it defines the person. How to explain it in a way that is universal and can be recognised by everyone? Longing Longing indicates an as yet unsatisfied desire. If it is not strong it is not really a desire. We have many desires that are desires in name only. Our attachment to them is partial and relatively unimportant. We measure importance on a simple scale - how much does my continued existence depend upon it? Desires that are desires in name only are l

Brushes With The Truth · EN

SCALE-LOGICS

Bart Hopkin · EN

HARMONIC DAMPING

Bart Hopkin · EN

AUDIORIUM — a new album from Bart

Bart Hopkin · EN

COMPLEX TIMBRES IN MUSICAL CONTEXT

Bart Hopkin · EN

METAL SHEET INSTRUMENTS

Bart Hopkin · EN

The Undertone Instruments Collection

Bart Hopkin · EN

MALLET HEADS

Bart Hopkin · EN

WHERE TO GET STRINGS FOR UNUSUAL STRING INSTRUMENTS

Bart Hopkin · EN

A 4th of July With Baseball, Firmware, and Codex

A July 4 weekend experiment where Codex played an audio-only 1980s baseball game, used ASR as feedback, and helped recover details from its ROM and memory map.

bhart.org · EN

The /goal Function Made Loop Engineering Click for Me

How Codex /goal, loop engineering, and a weird Starting Lineup Talking Baseball reverse engineering project changed how I think about working with AI agents.

bhart.org · EN

My Favorite Codex Skill Is a Dumb Little File Clerk

A small personal Codex skill organizes my Google Drive inbox, renames scanned documents, files receipts, and turns HSA expenses into spreadsheet-ready rows.

bhart.org · EN

A Blank PDF Form Is My New Favorite AI Benchmark

GPT-5.6 impressed me with a 40-hour C++ implementation, while Grok 4.5 surprised me by reconstructing a fillable PDF. Together, they suggest better ways to judge models than one-shot answers.

bhart.org · EN

My AI Coding Setup Still Lives in the Terminal

WSL, herdr, and a custom tmux usage meter help me manage several coding agents without losing track of the work. The appeal is a workspace I can keep adapting.

bhart.org · EN

GPT-5.6 Found the Web Interface I Was Missing

Codex and GPT-5.6 helped me investigate a device I own and build a local browser interface after the official web option disappeared. It changed which personal projects feel worth trying.

bhart.org · EN

Fable Made the AI Compute Boom Make Sense

A few days with Claude Fable changed how I think about AI compute: capable local models could handle everyday work while large clusters make sustained investigations affordable.

bhart.org · EN

What Happens After AI Gets Smarter Than Every Human?

AI progress in mathematics raises a question I cannot shake: if machines eventually reason beyond our best minds, will their discoveries still make sense to us?

bhart.org · EN

fluffy rambles: My urbanist fantasy

I mostly love the town I live in , except that I really miss living in a more urban area with good walkability and transit.

busybee · EN

fluffy rambles: Technology extension and phone longevity

I’ve had the same phone for the past five years, an iPhone 13 Pro which I bought for two reasons:

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Coffee Talk: My coffee selection hierarchy

Recently, James Hoffmann conducted a coffee fermentation project , along similar lines to his previous decaf project . Since this project was based entirely around caffeinated coffee, and I am quite caffeine-sensitive, I opted to just do this as a risky “drink one cup every few days” thing rather than a formal cupping.

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fluffy rambles: Fatigue and support thereof

Over the past year or so my fatigue has been getting significantly worse. It’s almost always brought about by post-exertional malaise, which is one of the keystone symptoms of ME/CFS , which has no known treatment, just mitigations at best . And the core mitigation is to not overexert oneself.

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Notes: Men in tech #YesAllMen

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