Baktiyar Ablaikhan

Journal

Light, kept.

Photographs from the archive, each with the colours it is made of.

A meadow of purple and white thistles. Measured, it is mostly green — the purple everyone notices is about two percent of the light.
ThistlesA meadow of purple and white thistles. Measured, it is mostly green — the purple everyone notices is about two percent of the light.

Fourteen thistle heads, cut from that one frame — shown at the size they were

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Medal, I-degree diploma and participant badge from the Space AI section, Astana, April 2026.
The badge said TRACEMedal, I-degree diploma and participant badge from the Space AI section, Astana, April 2026. AEROO Space AI →
Whisper with a GPT decoder for under-represented languages (arXiv 2408.05554) — read for the Kazakh speech work, marked up on screen.
Reading, with a highlighterWhisper with a GPT decoder for under-represented languages (arXiv 2408.05554) — read for the Kazakh speech work, marked up on screen.
Under the arena lights in Astana, where I volunteered at events.
Barys ArenaUnder the arena lights in Astana, where I volunteered at events. Volunteering →
The ceremony for the first-place diplomas, “Exploring the World of Science”, April 2026.
First-place diplomasThe ceremony for the first-place diplomas, “Exploring the World of Science”, April 2026. AEROO Space AI →
What it says on the Decentrathon 5.0 shirt, after ten days on the AI inDrive track.
Decentralized and sleep-deprivedWhat it says on the Decentrathon 5.0 shirt, after ten days on the AI inDrive track. Decentrathon 5.0 →
EpiCare before it had a case: ESP32-S3, motion, pulse and ECG modules, a buzzer, a button and three electrode leads.
A fall detector on a breadboardEpiCare before it had a case: ESP32-S3, motion, pulse and ECG modules, a buzzer, a button and three electrode leads. EpiCare →
The mark of Mostly Matter, my science channel — a prism’s light across textured paper.
mm.The mark of Mostly Matter, my science channel — a prism’s light across textured paper. Mostly Matter →