Fieldfare
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Bytes and Brains is now Fieldfare

Same library, same research, same roadmap. New name: Fieldfare, from the Old English for field-traveler.

This project is now called Fieldfare. Same library, same research, same license, same roadmap. New name.

Why

There is an established ML consulting firm in Copenhagen that shares our old name. They were there first, they do good work, and the collision confused everyone: search results, GitHub handles, introductions at conferences. A name should identify you. Ours identified two companies.

Why Fieldfare

A fieldfare is a thrush. The name comes from Old English feldefare: field-traveler.

The bird fits the work better than we could have planned. Fieldfares travel in loose, coordinated flocks with no leader. They hold no fixed territory and roam to wherever the food is that week. They live in open country, at the edges, not the interior. That is the software: machine learning that travels to the field, coordination that emerges from local behavior, compute that lives where the data lives.

What changes

  • The site now lives at fieldfare.dev. Old bytesandbrains.ai links redirect.
  • Contact is now matthew@fieldfare.dev. The old address forwards.
  • The crate is still published as bytesandbrains today. A coming release will ship it as fieldfare, with a final bytesandbrains version pointing across. Nothing breaks in the meantime.
  • The GitHub org will be renamed. GitHub redirects old URLs automatically.

What does not change

Everything else. The code, the AGPL-3.0 + commercial licensing, the whitepaper’s design, the Protean research line, the whole direction. A rename is a label swap, not a pivot.

If you have links, bookmarks, or a Cargo.toml pointing at the old name, they keep working. If you were confused about which Bytes and Brains you were talking to, that problem is now solved.