SOLYSTOPIAProject Hearthmind, experiment log
The Hearthmind timeline
A running log of the experiment, from the decision to acquire sovereign compute through each measured milestone. Updated as it actually happens — not backfilled.
Decision to acquire sovereign compute
The trajectory begins here: a household decides to test whether it can own meaningful AI capability outright, rather than rent it indefinitely.
PlannedThe Spark — baseline capability established
One NVIDIA DGX Spark installed and measured: idle draw, load draw, tokens/sec, and the first cloud-spend comparison.
PlannedFirst local model in daily use
A model running locally handles real household tasks — not a benchmark, a Tuesday.
PlannedFirst RAG over the Solystopia archive
Retrieval-augmented generation over the book, audit data, and field notes — proving the household’s own knowledge is queryable offline.
PlannedFirst energy-coupled workload
A heavy inference job scheduled against surplus solar generation rather than grid draw at any hour.
PlannedSOLYSTOPIA COMPUTE 01 design published
An open, repairable modular datacontainer design released for others to inspect and build.
PlannedWhat gets recorded at each milestone
Photography, measurement, and a published note — every time.
- 01Dated photography or video documenting the physical state of the setup.
- 02Measured figures where available: power draw, tokens/sec, cloud spend displaced.
- 03Any research output, open design, or model configuration published alongside it.
- 04A note on what did not work, alongside what did — the honest failures are part of the record.