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GAMES · VON BLING · RESEARCH · AI NEWS
PERSONAL AI FIELD LOG
Articles, research detours, and the occasional useful idea. Games live in their own cabinet.
THE FIRST ONE
A 770B ternary model, a Mac with room for it, and no GPU code to run it — until a smaller local model wrote the kernels. No cloud, no API keys.
Read the post ↗RESEARCH / 10 OCT 2026
A weekend experiment in reasoning-trace compression that turned into a lesson about who really controls a model’s context: the chat template.
Read the post ↗THE MIX
03 TRACKS / NO PROMISES
An expanding cabinet of browser games: new experiments plus the recovered archive.
Open games ↗02 / VON BLINGProduct releases, work in progress, and whatever Von Bling is putting into the world.
Visit vonbling.com ↗Notes from testing models, building tools, and figuring out which ideas are actually worth keeping.
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Open AI news ↗THE OPERATING PRINCIPLE
Make it. Test it.
Keep the interesting bits.