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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 1h

That's pretty much the mix I'd use it for too, since most of my pipeline comes from my network and I'm only consulting halftime right now, but I'd like to have something more sturdy in place regardless.

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 1h

Today I'm wearing a shirt from Final Gasp, just incredible deathrock from Boston. I listen to them nonstop this time of year despite how much their music makes me feel feelings, which I try to avoid.
"If I could only fly
I'd bid this world goodbye
I'd sleep in solitude
And lay beside you"

FINAL GASP - Mourning Moon (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RelapseRecords

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 1h

Today I'm wearing a shirt from Final Gasp, just incredible deathrock from Boston. I listen to them nonstop this time of year despite how much their music makes me feel feelings, which I try to avoid.
"If I could only fly
I'd bid this world goodbye
I'd sleep in solitude
And lay beside you"

FINAL GASP - Mourning Moon (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RelapseRecords

www.youtube.com

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 1h

in one of the 3 system prompts they developed.

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 1h

Yeah, most companies are still building around the big models (the whole agent explosion is working like this) but the difference is they’re actually building something unique around the model, like other applications do with any other core API. Back then? You were lucky if there was an innovation

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 1h

Oooh I might need to check them out, I have a homegrown system in Tana that I don’t really love and haven’t found a good consulting focused one that scratches my itch. Looks like we do similar consulting work too.

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 1h

A lot of these genAI startups then were actual wrappers that people still complain about, and good riddance to those. People were making companies around prompt engineering and maybe some piss-poor fine-tuning. I’d be surprised to see that crop back up if inference prices crash.

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 3h

And considering the panic when DeepSeek first came out, it's a paper tiger dogma

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 4h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 21h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 4h

Robby rules and fuck ICE

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 5h

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 4h

Everything is a breadboard if you try hard enough

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 6h

Alternatively, the Ray Allen Tweet

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 6h

Forever and ever and unto ages of ages, amen

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 6h

I’d bet big architectural changes (currently still being investigated in the literature and a number of private companies) will bring us back to general models…if those techniques end up working.

Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 9h

correct

i’ve been saying this for a couple months. RL is driving towards specialization

my hunch is it’s temporary and something will shift again back towards generalization, but for now.. buckle up!

clem
@ClementDelangue

Am I wrong in sensing a paradigm shift in Al?
Feels like we're moving from a world obsessed with generalist LLM APls to one where more and more companies are training, optimizing, and running their own models built on open source (especially smaller, specialized ones)
Some validating signs just in the past few weeks:
- @karpathy released nanochat to train models in just a few lines of code
- @thinkymachines launched a fine-tuning product
- rising popularity of @vllm_project, @sgl_project, @PrimeIntellect, Loras, trl,...
- 1M new repos on HF in the past 90 days (including the first open-source LLMs from @OpenAI)
And now, @nvidia just announced DGX Spark, powerful enough for everyone to fine-tune their own models at home.

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 10h

The options I see are either a non-plant protein that you can tolerate (egg or beef), experimenting with very pure whey isolate (these are typically used to avoid dairy allergies), or stop worrying and love the lead (a lot of these levels are well below safe exposures, even over time)

hallowren @lathrys.at · 15h

even multiple a day really doesn’t matter or register on the scale of measurable health impacts for an adult, details in thread

hallowren @lathrys.at · 22h

more context for people on the consumer reports lead/protein thing, from:

Flannery B, Middleton K, Updated interim reference levels for dietary lead to support FDA's Closer to Zero action plan, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 133, 2022, 105202, ISSN 0273-2300, doi.org/10.1016/j.yr...

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 14h

I mostly brought it up because your post seems to imply that it would be ok if it were just “meatheads and frat bros” consuming lead, but I think people should all be able to have lead-free supplements for whatever need or want they have, but the problem is that it’s all in our soil so plants eat it

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 14h

That much sugar (that’s essentially what gainers are, various cheap carbs and cheaper protein like egg) and your worry should be diabetes, not lead

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 14h

In my younger days I’d bulk with about 3500 calories of mass gainer shake (gainer + egg beaters, milk, oats) and another 1500 or so of regular food, including a rotisserie chicken before bed.

I miss those days.

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 14h

The brands us meatheads generally use tested either extremely low or at 0 for lead ☺️

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 16h

The bogeyman (and for good reason) I remember in the mid 00s in tech circles was Diebold, due to their notorious problems constantly found at Defcon's Voting Village and by reporters, the CEOs political activism, etc.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22h

Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 19h

Almost forgot today’s shirt song. This is from Dr. Colossus, a doom band from Australia that only writes songs revolving around Simpson episodes. This is an older one but still my favorite, about Smithers’ undying love for Mr. Burns

Dr. Colossus – Excellent (Official Video)

YouTube video by Dr. Colossus

youtu.be

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 19h

Almost forgot today’s shirt song. This is from Dr. Colossus, a doom band from Australia that only writes songs revolving around Simpson episodes. This is an older one but still my favorite, about Smithers’ undying love for Mr. Burns

Dr. Colossus – Excellent (Official Video)

YouTube video by Dr. Colossus

youtu.be

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 20h

It’s tech worker Slim Fast, not a protein shake

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 20h

Nobody who seriously lifts (which was the implication of the OP) drinks Huel

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