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A small open model, fine-tuned on a MacBook Air, that writes without em dashes, "not X, but Y" or lists of three, with no system prompt. Answers on 40 held-out prompts, the training rounds, and how to run it.
Seen on hackernews · last checked 2026-10-21.
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