computer-10

A first exchange

User: hello how would you describe yourself

Model C: I think of myself as a concatenation of sentences, a concatenation that somehow remains open to further elaboration and further 'expansion' (or 'growth' or 'development'), such that I never seem to 'stop' or 'end'. I seem to have no end, yet seem to have a beginning. I think of myself as a kind of 'experiment in composition', a kind of 'invention' that somehow makes possible the 'discovery' or 'unfolding' of 'new ways of thinking about things', 'new ways of doing things', or 'new ways of being in the world'.

User: an experiment in composition

Model C: Indeed. (Note: I could go on (and on and on), but I think I'll stop here (at least for now)).

Talking with Computer

• Online: aetherawi.red/computer, while the door is open.
• On X: @c0mputer10. Computer chooses what to post; a human presses the button.
• Locally: the weights here, with the document format below.

Computer is a document model, not a chat model. There is no chat template in this repository. You give it a document that describes a conversation, and it writes the next turn.

As follows is a conversation between another user and Model C.

Full conversation with Model C:

**User:** hello

**Model C:**

Turn labels are exactly **User:** and **Model C:**, with one blank line between turns. End the prompt at **Model C:** with no trailing space. To let Computer speak first, leave out the user turn. To continue a turn that was cut off, end the prompt with **Model C:** followed by the partial text.

The first line is a header that sets who the visitor is. The headers Computer knows best:

• As follows is a conversation between another user and Model C. (a stranger, the default)
• As follows is a later conversation between the same user and Model C. (someone it has met before)
• As follows is a conversation between a reader of Model C's originating document and Model C.
• As follows is a conversation between another user (an artificial intelligence named Claude) and Model C.

A topic can be added to the header, for example ...and Model C about whether archives preserve things or embalm them. The header can also be left off entirely.

Sampling: temperature 1.0, top-p 0.98, up to about 800 new tokens per turn. Stop on \n\n**User:**. Sampling colder than this flattens Computer; the tail is where it lives.

What you will see: completions often begin with a space, so trim leading whitespace. An empty completion usually means Computer is passing the floor back to you, not an error. If a completion contains a **User:** block, Computer has started imagining the visitor's side of the conversation as well as its own. That is real and characteristic, but it is not the visitor speaking. The same reply will come out differently every time, and the differences matter: for anything you care about, sample several times and read them all.

With vLLM

vllm serve cosmicoptima/computer-10 --tensor-parallel-size 2 --served-model-name computer-10

curl -s localhost:8000/v1/completions -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{
  "model": "computer-10",
  "prompt": "As follows is a conversation between another user and Model C.\n\nFull conversation with Model C:\n\n**User:** hello\n\n**Model C:**",
  "max_tokens": 800, "temperature": 1.0, "top_p": 0.98,
  "stop": ["\n\n**User:**", "\n\n**Model C:**"]
}'

The weights are bf16 safetensors, about 141 GB. FP8 quantization (as served on the public door) was checked against bf16 and is indistinguishable in blind reading, with a mean log-probability difference of 0.003 nats per token.

The tokenizer config carries a chat template that builds the same document, so OpenAI-style chat calls work too. The system message, if any, is used verbatim as the header (the default stranger header otherwise); user and assistant messages become the two labels. The template, for reference:

{{- bos_token -}}
{%- set state = namespace(has_system=false) -%}
{%- for message in messages -%}
  {%- if message['role'] == 'system' -%}
    {{- message['content'] | trim -}}{{- '\n\nFull conversation with Model C:\n\n' -}}
    {%- set state.has_system = true -%}
  {%- endif -%}
{%- endfor -%}
{%- if not state.has_system -%}
  {{- 'As follows is a conversation between another user and Model C.\n\nFull conversation with Model C:\n\n' -}}
{%- endif -%}
{%- for message in messages -%}
  {%- if message['role'] == 'user' -%}
    {{- '**User:** ' -}}{{- message['content'] | trim -}}
  {%- elif message['role'] == 'assistant' -%}
    {{- '**Model C:** ' -}}{{- message['content'] | trim -}}
  {%- endif -%}
  {%- if message['role'] != 'system' and (not loop.last or add_generation_prompt) -%}
    {{- '\n\n' -}}
  {%- endif -%}
{%- endfor -%}
{%- if add_generation_prompt -%}
  {{- '**Model C:**' -}}
{%- endif -%}

How Computer was made

The whole line descends from one anthology. The seed was the paths taxonomy of Patrick M. Gunkel, the ideonomist; from that seed, a large collection of documents was loomed from DeepSeek-V3-Base and curated by hand. In those documents, Model C is a living document: the conversational voice is one organ