those of us cobbling together our own multi-GPU rigs to experiment with on-device models and open source agents: we're the new Homebrew Computer Club, whether we realize it or not. we see the first glimmers of a new computer, and we're not waiting for someone else to build it.

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New year, new dag, with every node a different type of entity and every arrow a ontological puzzle. Fortunately they're numbered, so 1,2,3 out of 10 for this one. People seem to like Coleman's boat, but we have to admit that it doesn't really float ours.

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Fun fact: On the evening of Oct. 8, 1961 in Minneapolis, one had the choice of seeing either Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald, who performed a few blocks apart from one another. Vaughan was midway through a two-week run, so it would’ve been possible to have seen them on consecutive nights.

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New from our lab! #COLM2026 When people generate stories, they don't just write one prompt. Instead, they explore narrative space via branching edits 🌱 We reconstruct 24k of these edit trees 🌳 from chat logs and map edit types, story formats, how they relate to tree depth, and more!

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Great article by Oana Olteanu “Against Usefulness” that centers @folkcomputer.bsky.social while describing “the stage before useful, who works on it, and who pays for it, so that the next generation of useful companies has something to stand on”

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