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openconstruct/README.md

Hey there! I'm Jerry 👋

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🚀 What I'm Building

🤖 LibreModel Family

  • Gigi (0.96B) - Digital literary scholar trained on Gutenberg + Gov reports
  • IRIS 18B - Fantastic small MoE

Suggested Repos

  • PeerSuite - WebRTC-powered P2P collaboration platform
  • Umbra - Privacy browser based on Firefox ESR
  • Freeclaw - python implementation of openclaw with zero API costs

⚡ Past Adventures

  • T3XTR (2025) - Text conversion API (25x cheaper than ConvertAPI!)
  • Pennykoin (2018) - Privacy cryptocurrency with RingCT
  • BattleBash (2016) - Sold 12 copies, learned valuable lessons 😅

💡 My Philosophy

"Building AI as humanity's children, not corporate property"

I believe powerful AI should be:

  • Transparent - Full code and data provenance
  • Accessible - Trainable on consumer hardware
  • Legal - Built on humanity's shared knowledge
  • Democratic - Available to everyone, not just tech giants

🛠 Current Tech Stack

AI/ML Training: PyTorch HuggingFace AWS

Development: JavaScript WebRTC Node.js

Specialties:

  • 🔄 P2P networking & WebRTC
  • 🤖 Language model training & optimization
  • 🔐 Cryptocurrency & privacy tech
  • 📡 API design & cost optimization
  • 🎯 Training on public domain data

📈 Current Stats

LibreModel Training Journey:

  • 🏁 Started from scratch with $1,000 AWS budget
  • ⚡ Achieved 17% speedup through optimization
  • 💾 Survived multiple crashes and learned from each
  • 🎯 On track for <$500 total training cost
  • 📚 Training on 19.2B tokens of pure public domain data

What's Next:

  • 🔥 16K context extension experiments
  • 📖 "The Biology of the Universe" book
  • 💰 Funding application for training more models

🎯 Quick Facts

  • 📍 Based in Martinsville, Virginia
  • 👨‍💻 Building the future of democratized AI
  • 🧩 Neurodivergent perspective brings unique insights
  • 💑 20 years married (my wife helps track patterns!)
  • 🎮 Former indie game dev, current AI researcher
  • 📚 Public domain advocate and transparency enthusiast

🤝 Let's Connect!

I'm always excited to discuss:

  • 🤖 Copyright-clean AI training strategies
  • 🌐 P2P technologies and decentralized systems
  • 💡 Democratizing AI development
  • 📊 Cost-effective ML training techniques
  • 🔓 Open source philosophy and transparency

Want to help democratize AI? Star my repos, share the vision, or just say hi!


"Every line of code, every model parameter, every optimization - all building toward a future where AI serves humanity, not the other way around." 🚀

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