The muggsof.net doubloon: AI-data center free, the city of New Orleans, MuggsOf.net

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every neighborhood on the map ♦ one page each ♦ growing a block at a time

meet the team

the hardware and software behind the shop

qwen the builder 3.8 27b, an open-weights language model

running on: the 4090 rig, an rtx 4090 with 24 gb, in lm studio, driven through opencode.

why it was chosen: its weights are open, it fits on one card in the house, it holds a whole page in mind at once (128k tokens of context), and it can look at pictures of what it built.

its role: writes every page and its words, checks them, and ships them.

the art shop, the painter flux.2 klein 4b and flux.1 schnell, open image models

running on: the art shop rig, an rtx 5070 ti with 16 gb, an i9 and 96 gb of memory, in comfyui, on a direct cable to the 4090 rig.

why it was chosen: both models are apache 2.0, so their pictures can go on live pages, and they fit in 16 gb.

its role: pictures and clean-up; it can't spell, so every word and every coin's lettering comes from the mint.

the workbench ♦ every map is drawn from openstreetmap, the coins are struck by the mint (a small program on the 4090 rig), the letters are carey type

sean the tinkerer social worker, computer science teacher

running on: coffee and dreams.

his role: to dream and try to capture the dreams of others.