The Rolling Tail Headlines

Submission to Mini Jam 176: Foxes^🪐, with a limitation of flipping a coin as a mechanic.

Have a try!^🪐

A text-based exploration, with a grain of Automatic Imagination.

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Inquiring minds alike, Fox Newroll Network (FoxNN) has you covered! In the 22nd century, foxes are the playful super-wizards. They traverse the world on a daily basis, observing, and discovering through a mechanism known as “heads or tails” — no, it’s not coin flipping, but a secret fox magic outside of the reach of languages~

Bring your cup of moonbeam tea, join the foxes in their inquiries for this issue!

This is more of a toy than a game. This was the year when the “imagination” of artificial language models grew towards maturity; the flying ideas in the token sequences started to take shape. So, I tried to cartograph a boundless ocean in it, composed of random daydreams. It was a time when DeepSeek^🪐 was not known to all, the V3 model running lightning fast during debugging. This whale was probably indeed wandering a lonely ocean, I thought.

Halfway through the jam, a new model was released. I tried it, but felt that this pile of ungrounded murmurs did not call for much additional thinking, and chose not to migrate. This model was the later famous R1, which, with the release of the official client just a few days later, became phenomenal across the land — while drying this newly discovered ocean up for quite a few days…

One year later, the image model was migrated from the original Tongyi Wanx to Z-Image-Turbo^🪐, a lightweight model recently released, deployed on a server shared by our research lab. This not only reduced the consumption of computing resources, but also achieved a more consistent visual style [and protected my wallet! ]. Also, all the processing involved by this time was run on open weights and open source programs. <26-Bedew>