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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
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SCALE-LOGICS
Bart Hopkin · EN
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HARMONIC DAMPING
Bart Hopkin · EN
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AUDIORIUM — a new album from Bart
Bart Hopkin · EN
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COMPLEX TIMBRES IN MUSICAL CONTEXT
Bart Hopkin · EN
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METAL SHEET INSTRUMENTS
Bart Hopkin · EN
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The Undertone Instruments Collection
Bart Hopkin · EN
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MALLET HEADS
Bart Hopkin · EN
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WHERE TO GET STRINGS FOR UNUSUAL STRING INSTRUMENTS
Bart Hopkin · EN
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
busybee · EN
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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.
busybee · EN
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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.
busybee · EN
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Notes: Men in tech #YesAllMen
busybee
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fluffy rambles: ME/CFS + Fibromyalgia
At this point it is super clear that I probably have ME/CFS . This has not been determined by a doctor (not for lack of trying!), but by a lifetime of experience and the fact that the issues I have match the profile pretty much exactly. I’d be tempted to blame the bad case of COVID I got back in 2024 but the precursors were there for a long, long time, so if COVID did anything it was just to push me over an edge I had been approaching for a while.
busybee · EN