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Mostly shitposts, sometimes tech Machine Learning/Data Engineering Boston / Athens GR 👁️🖥️👁️ Data/ML/AI Engineering Consultant 🐍 Python 🧙 Elixir 🏋️‍♂️ Bodybuilding/lifting 🎸 Doom/sludge/heavy psych 🧠 Neuroscience 🇬🇷 Greek Built Nasdanq, C&D’ed by Nasdaq

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 5d

I should start posting songs from whichever band I'm wearing a shirt of, so here's Ulthar's Cosmovore, Lovecraftian blackened death metal from VA. Chaotic but with good riffs that aren't just mindless technicality that death metal can kind of fall into.

Cosmovore

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

I need to tell this to my dad who had to become a martial artist and essentially form a gang with his cousins in the 70s because people would literally fight them for being Greek even though they were forced to assimilate with Anglo names

The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 11h

Starting to? It was honed on boys and men going back to at least the 50s. We were talking about it in undergrad clinical psych classes in the mid-00s!

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

Tell me more about your education in cognitive neuroscience

The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 15h

There is no way he did any of these things either together or for more than enough time to lose a little water weight.

The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 15h

And far be it from me to judge someone having an ED, I wrestled and bodybuilt, I’m acquainted with disordered eating, but god damn stick to something for more than a few weeks and stop doing fad diets. If clen didn’t work for you, you got fake clen and weren’t working out.

The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 15h

Literally the one time someone actually went into broscience “starvation mode” from dieting

The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 15h

Bulimia and not able to stick to any one solution for more than a few weeks probably fucked up his metabolism more than anything else.

Dude is a grade A moron.

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 15h

Yeah I feel the same way except for sending children to the mines. Hate to take away jobs from the children that yearn for the mines.

The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 17h

Organ growth is a side effect, but it’s rare to be the cause of (and I don’t think even confirmed) the bodybuilder “bubble gut” (mostly because it goes away the next day). The problematic growth is in the heart, liver, and kidneys, which is less noticeable from the outside until they keel over.

The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 17h

I’d put my money on years of chronically low sleep and stimulant abuse along with whatever madness gets induced by being really rich and really weird to begin with.

The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 17h

Older BB’ers like Joe Palumbo accused of gut growth typically just have some degree of sarcopenia (so arms look skinnier than the torso and hold less muscle mass) and a combo of low subcutaneous fat but higher visceral fat

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 17h

The gut thing is mostly bro science. If it grew your gut like people think, you’d likely die of organ failure.

What people call GH gut in bodybuilders (where this myth is from) is a temporary effect caused pre-show carb loading to enhance acute effects of insulin and fill out muscles with glycogen

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 17h

In some states you can get prescribed it at anti-aging clinics but it’s incredibly expensive. All OTC and even RC supplements claiming they’ll affect your natural GH levels are entirely bullshit though.

The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 17h

GH is often prescribed off label at anti-aging clinics but it’s expensive as hell and doesn’t do much to adults (except, like, nicer skin) without being used with insulin and AAS.

The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 17h

There are a lot of steps to get from that in mice to behavioral effects in humans

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ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is holding a german shepherd and saying to be fair

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 21h

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

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Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 22h

Karpathy: nanochat

A small training+inference pipeline for creating your own LLM from scratch

$100 will get you a somewhat functional model

$1000 is more coherent & solves math

detailed walkthrough: github.com/karpathy/nan...

repo: github.com/karpathy/nan...

Andrej Karpathy & @karpathy
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Excited to release new repo: nanochat! (it's among the most unhinged I've written).
Unlike my earlier similar repo nanoGPT which only covered pretraining, nanochat is a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline of a simple ChatGPT clone in a single, dependency-minimal codebase. You boot up a cloud GPU box, run a single script and in as little as 4 hours later you can talk to your own LLM in a ChatGPT-like web Ul.
It weighs ~8,000 lines of imo quite clean code to:
- Train the tokenizer using a new Rust implementation
- Pretrain a Transformer LLM on FineWeb, evaluate CORE score across a number of metrics
- Midtrain on user-assistant conversations from SmolTalk, multiple choice questions, tool use.
- SFT, evaluate the chat model on world knowledge multiple choice (ARC-E/C, MMLU), math (GSM8K), code (HumanEval)
- RL the model optionally on GSM8K with
IPDDOI

- RL the model optionally on GSM8K with
"GRPO"
- Efficient inference the model in an Engine with
KV cache, simple prefill/ decode, tool use (Python interpreter in a lightweight sandbox), talk to it over CLI or ChatGPT-like WebUl.
- Write a single markdown report card, summarizing and gamifying the whole thing.
Even for as low as ~$100 in cost (~4 hours on an
8XH100 node), you can train a little ChatGPT clone that you can kind of talk to, and which can write stories/poems, answer simple questions.
About ~12 hours surpasses GPT-2 CORE metric.
As you further scale up towards ~$1000 (~41.6 hours of training), it quickly becomes a lot more coherent and can solve simple math/code problems and take multiple choice tests. E.g. a depth 30 model trained for 24 hours (this is about equal to FLOPs of GPT-3 Small 125M and 1/1000th of GPT-3) gets into 40s on MMLU and
70s on ARC-Easy, 20s on GSM8K, etc.
My goal is to get the full "strong baseline" stack into one cohesive, minimal, readable, hackable, maximally forkable repo. nanochat will be the capstone project of LLM101n (which is still being developed). I think it also has potential to grow

developed). I think it also has potential to grow into a research harness, or a benchmark, similar to nanoGPT before it. It is by no means finished, tuned or optimized (actually I think there's likely quite a bit of low-hanging fruit), but I think it's at a place where the overall skeleton is ok enough that it can go up on GitHub where all the parts of it can be improved.
Link to repo and a detailed walkthrough of the nanochat speedrun is in the reply.
nanochat

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The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 21h

I think that would remove it from a long-term fear to a short-term one.

The Fresh Prince of Donscare @erisianrite.com · 21h

I heard he pretty much ripped off The Warriors though

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 2d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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

This rules, especially the use of 'alien' because there's definitely something alien (in every sense) going on in there and it's exciting to learn how they are working under the hood.

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Sam Barrett, PhD @ai4geo.bsky.social · Aug 21

LLMs: an alien cognitive substrate raised entirely inside the greenhouse of human language, but at scales and in ways utterly unlike humans resulting in an intelligence more alien than we can imagine yet disturbingly fluent in human language.

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

Kiddo picked out my shirt today because he likes the giant feral cat on it. The shirt is from Leather Lung, and in keeping with the theme, here is Big Bad Bodega Cat

Big Bad Bodega Cat

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

Kiddo picked out my shirt today because he likes the giant feral cat on it. The shirt is from Leather Lung, and in keeping with the theme, here is Big Bad Bodega Cat

Big Bad Bodega Cat

YouTube video by Leather Lung - Topic