Author Archives: sanfoh

Heathrow Power Outage March 2025

Posted on by
Reply

Original Report:

NESO North Hyde Review – Final Report (1)Download

Podcast created via NotbookLM:

(Summary from NotbookLM) This comprehensive report from the National Energy System Operator (NESO) details the root causes, impacts, and recommendations following a major power outage and fire at the North Hyde 275kV substation on March 20, 2025. The incident, caused by a catastrophic failure and fire on Supergrid Transformer 3 (SGT3) due to moisture ingress, led to the tripping of two other transformers (SGT1 and SGT2) and a complete loss of supply to over 70,000 customers, including Heathrow Airport, which subsequently closed. The report analyzes asset management failures, site fire controls, and the resilience of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), ultimately proposing recommendations for improving energy system security and continuity of service.

Responsible AI Music Launch and Artist Talks

Posted on by
Reply

Descriptions of the mini projects: Responsible AI international community to reduce bias in AI music generation and analysis – https://music-rai.github.io/#mini-projects

(Summary via Generative AI): The event highlighted three innovative artistic mini-projects aimed at addressing bias in mainstream AI models by creating music in often overlooked or marginalized genres. The projects used low-resource AI models and small datasets to explore Responsible AI (RAI) themes.

Selected Artists and Projects:

  1. Fá Maria (aka HAUT):
    • Project: “Erasure”
    • Focus: A sound installation that explored the relationship between voice, gender identity, and AI technology. It used vocal datasets from underrepresented queer and trans voices to address biases in mainstream voice-generative AI models.
  2. Junson Park:
    • Project: An experimental sound arrangement that combined traditional Korean music with modern electronic influences.
    • Focus: Overcoming limitations in mainstream AI audio models by representing cultural nuances in traditional Korean music.
  3. Shreya Gupta:
    • Project: “Jugalbandi: Call and Response Between Tabla Player and Drum Player”
    • Focus: Developing a rule-based method to deconstruct complex rhythmic structures for AI models, aiming to make them more inclusive and culturally aware.

These projects aimed to highlight the challenges of bias in AI and demonstrated how RAI techniques could address them.

The event begins.
Final performance of the event

The event was moderated by: Nick Bryan-Kinns | About | University of the Arts London staff research profiles

The Cornish Hideaway

Posted on by
Reply

Novel by Jennifer Bibby:

The Cornish Hideaway: A beautiful village. An artist who’s lost her spark. And a community who help her find it again.

All Freya has ever wanted to do is paint. So when she fails her Master’s Degree in Art, on the same day that her boyfriend decides he needs a ‘more serious’ partner, to Freya it feels like the end of the world.

Luckily, she has a saviour in the shape of best friend Lola, who invites her to the sleepy Cornish village of Polcarrow, to work in her café. With nothing keeping her in London, Freya jumps at the chance of a summer by the sea.

Freya needs time to focus on herself. But then dark and mysterious biker Angelo blows into town on a stormy afternoon, with his own artistic dreams and a secretive past, and Freya’s plans of a romance-free summer fly straight out of the window…

Heart-warming, heartfelt and romantic, The Cornish Hideaway is a novel of community, friendship and learning to love again, for fans of Jenny Colgan, Cathy Bramley and Heidi Swain.

Available at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cornish-Hideaway-beautiful-village-community-ebook/dp/B098BNKQ7G/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+cornish+hideaway&qid=1625146536&sr=8-1