04 · A GALAXY OF NOTES

Articles.

Field notes from the bench — on code, AI, ComfyUI and whatever else is being built this week.

  1. Notebook · Games 13 min

    BeastWars, an arena shooter in four and a half days

    Low-poly animals, Quake 3 movement and all nine Quake 3 weapons in the browser. How I built BeastWars in 243 commits, and the optimization day that took it from 140 to 700 frames per second.

    • games
    • three.js
    • performance
    • netcode
    • webgl

  2. Notebook · Speech 10 min

    A wake word that lives in the browser

    How we trained "Hei Alpha", a 415 KB wake-word model that listens in five languages, without recording a single human voice. It took synthetic speech, an hour of GPU time and about five dollars.

    • machine learning
    • speech
    • wake word
    • onnx
    • tts

  3. Notebook · Small models 10 min

    Teaching a 144M model to decide like a big one

    How we took CHEF, a large decision model, and trained a custom 144M-parameter model that makes the same calls in a fraction of the time, on one GPU, in under half an hour per run.

    • machine learning
    • distillation
    • small models
    • onnx