Tom Hartley
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Tom Hartley
@tomhartley.me.uk
Former Academic. Neuroscience/Psychology. Retired.
Interests: Recording and mixing music; The Beatles; currently learning to play drums.
tomhartley.me.uk
New digital painting. Sunset from the rooftop of the Giotto apartment building in Leeds, UK. Part of the former factory site Tower Works. It includes 3 listed towers. The big one in the picture is based on Giotto's campanile in Florence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_W...
November 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Really proud and excited about this:

Nightblindness by The Pennydrops a duo consisting of my daughter Izzy Hartley and JJ Chamberlain.

This is their 1st official release (e.g., on Spotify). Please listen & share.

open.spotify.com/album/6QGa3A...

[I mixed & produced it]
October 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Just finished this digital painting of a local 14th Century church.
October 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Looks pretty appetising!
August 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Oh, that doesn't look sinister at all.

Post from the BBC via @fulelo.bsky.social (tellingly, it looks as if the BBC may have changed this picture now).
August 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Scientists when someone comes up with an arbitrary but actionable binary classification of a continuous variable:
July 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
July 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
/11 end
May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
/10
May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The AI spontaneously reflects on the process without being prompted /9
May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
/8
May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
/7
May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Boom! Pretty happy with that. Now to revise the original.../6
May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Wait for it... /5
May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Eventually we arrive at an iteration that has some promise. /4
May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
... as illustrated here! There's much more to this conversation and it's worth following to the end. The screenshots tell the story (I will include alt text), so read on! /3
May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The AI has that habit of saying the equivalent of FINAL.docx after every draft. Here we are beginning the process of developing an MCP server that should allow the AI to reflect on its output and avoid some irritating and sometimes misleading biases. /2
May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
My response to Keir Starmer's immigration initiative.
May 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
A film that takes place where you're from:
April 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
April 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If you live in or near York, UK and you want to support a grassroots initiative and enjoy some live music, come and see my daughter and friends at this event on Saturday evening, Mickelgate Social, £7.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/myevent?eid=...
April 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Intrigued. I didn't know, but it seems Google has a new(ISH) feature. There was a drop-down menu with British or American.
April 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
March 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I don't necessarily endorse the specific suggestions for alternatives but this is something I am thinking about increasingly as US infrastructure seems less trustworthy. Many companies seem unconcerned about their global reputation, just going along the regime (or worse)...
March 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
February 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM