11 comments

  • andai 4 minutes ago
    >I used Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B as the starting point. I needed a small model to get close to realtime performance. Being a coding model, it had also already seen plenty of CLI usage.

    Interesting. I wanted to ask, how that model compares with the fine-tuned version, but I just saw the author provided benchmarks. Interesting that fine-tuning improved the memory so significantly, wouldn't have expected that.

    Though, on second thought, I had an experience where I was able to, as a human, fine-tune my memory beyond what I previously thought was possible!

    Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes.

    Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?

    —Practice, man... Practice...

  • thorum 17 minutes ago
    I regretfully suspect this actually is the future of UI. You just need smart local models running fast enough to keep the framerate high, but that’s inevitable in the long term, isn’t it?
    • skohan 3 minutes ago
      We had decades to work on making software more performant, but instead most users' space-age 2nm chips spend most of their time running Javascript because it was faster to make software that way.
    • gr_norm 4 minutes ago
      Why would you do that instead of having the model do the task you're using the UI for? It could generate UI widgets on-the-fly as needed to take richer inputs.
  • psandor 45 minutes ago
    Reminds me of this project from Microsoft. A Quake II “simulation” model where the whole application was just a model.

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/articles/whamm-real...

  • __mp 41 minutes ago
    It would be interesting to expose this on the internet. I wonder what the scrapers etc… would do with it.
  • oilkillsbirds 51 minutes ago
    Very cool. Fun project. I feel like there’s a wide field to be explored once you understand fine tuning good existing models
  • yjftsjthsd-h 23 minutes ago
    Wait, how did it `sleep 3`? I thought LLMs didn't have a concept of time
    • peder 13 minutes ago
      It’s still rendering frames constantly, no? So it just figures the next X frames are all doing nothing?
    • sprobertson 13 minutes ago
      from the post:

      Time is an input too. If nothing is pressed, the model gets a WAIT token with a duration instead of a key, which is how snake keeps moving on its own.

      • yjftsjthsd-h 6 minutes ago
        That seems as likely as anything, but that just moves the problem to counting, doesn't it? The model gets the duration, but I was under the impression LLMs struggled with the arithmetic that would make that useful.
  • obilgic 58 minutes ago
    There was a whole fake gui OS with similar concept right
  • prodigycorp 37 minutes ago
    Wow! This this reminds me of when we tried doing this with gpt 3 and.. it worked!

    The tmux thing had me confused for a moment until i realized it was emulating tmux. Super fun. Is the model window width aware?

  • simedw 17 minutes ago
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  • htoz1 54 minutes ago
    Where is the point of this project if i have terminal ?
    • mehmetoguzderin 38 minutes ago
      Terminal world models have many applications, but empirical observation of successful pretraining or fine-tuning can be significant for encapsulating from rather expensive Bash traces, such as ones obtained from systems with scarce accelerators, etc.
    • YmFzZTY0ZGFkZHk 34 minutes ago
      Sometimes it's just fun to do something absurd because you can. This is one of the reasons software is exciting.
    • good-idea 32 minutes ago
      because curiosity is the most fun of virtues!
    • dotancohen 51 minutes ago
      Because it was there