drej (e/acc) @0xdrej Twitter profile

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@0xdrej

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free the internet

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drej (e/acc)

@0xdrej

7 months

hundreds of thousands of new Grass users have joined the network in the last two days - we're upgrading servers in order to handle this new load and the product experience may be suboptimal while this is ongoing. appreciate everyone's patience as we work to resolve this

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We’ve noticed for some time now that LLMs are beginning to reach a point of diminishing returns in natural language tasks, with the shift in focus moving away from brute-force (huge models consuming tons of compute) to smarter training techniques that involve reinforcement

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@0xdrej

10 months

200 rt and i'll open 10 spots in the secret grass tg group

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@0xdrej

4 months

Thrilled to announce the release of the latest dataset from Grass Foundation: UpvoteWeb-24-600M UpvoteWeb-24-600M contains 600 million of the top posts and comments from Reddit in 2024, as well as media links and reply lineage. The data has been totally anonymized to preserve

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@0xdrej

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Incentives drive outcomes. If the material that's surfacing from the Google antitrust proceedings has shown us anything, it's that web2 companies didn't necessarily engage in unethical practices because they were evil. Their original intentions were genuinely virtuous. This

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@0xdrej

9 months

The problem with traditional oracle models in this application is that 1) most of the training data you need for AI is on the public web, 2) existing oracles are constrained to datacentre views of the internet, which are filled with rate limits + blocks + honeypots, and 3)

Chainlink

@chainlink

9 months

"The interaction between AI and blockchains will have to happen through a verifiable, secure, and decentralized interface, which is really what oracle networks provide"— @SergeyNazarov . Why AI needs #Chainlink ⬇️

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@0xdrej

9 months

If you think you’re late to joining the Grass movement, consider the fact that Grass is currently scraping 13,000 long form articles per minute and isn’t even being mentioned in these research pieces yet…. And this is just the alpha test.

CASΞY

@caseykcaruso

9 months

my thoughts on decentralized AI in a thesis + anti-thesis format

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@0xdrej

3 months

love seeing people building cool stuff with the latest @getgrass_io dataset

Caleb

@calebfahlgren

3 months

Find movie suggestions from the amazing new reddit dataset from @0xdrej 🎥 or use it to find high quality responses in a niche

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@0xdrej

1 month

👀

OKX Wallet

@okxweb3

1 month

We're happy to announce that @getgrass_io , a Layer 2 data rollup for AI and blockchain transparency, has integrated our Wallet! You can now connect securely to Grass to experience verifiable data provenance and seamless AI & blockchain interactions using #OKXWallet

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In case you missed it: the scope of LCR just 10x’d. On Google DeepMind's new findings and what it means for Grass's Live Context Retrieval (LCR): To date, Grass’s Live Context Retrieval has been built to operate at the inference level - and this is where the vast majority of

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@0xdrej

4 months

Crypto is not Web3 - but it can save it. Why AI is the next iteration of the internet and crypto is a critical part of keeping it free. The internet began as a place of total freedom, where web 1.0 users existed completely outside of society’s restrictions. Anyone could post a

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@0xdrej

7 months

always knew they were a small club

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@0xdrej

3 months

Live Context Retrieval will change AI forever. Last week, Grass open sourced UpVoteWeb - a dataset consisting of 600 million posts & comments from Reddit - on @huggingface . I'd like to take a moment to explain why Grass would open source something so valuable. There are two

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@0xdrej

6 months

If GRASS has 100 million nodes, then I am one of them. If GRASS has 1 million nodes, then I am one of them. If GRASS only has 1 node, then that is me. If GRASS has no nodes, then that means I no longer have internet. If the world is against GRASS then I am against the world.

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@0xdrej

7 months

the laptop stays on

Grass

@getgrass_io

7 months

We are going to break the chain.

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@0xdrej

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AI needs LCR to find PMF. The demand for Grass nodes has never been higher. As the network grows, new capabilities will be unlocked and more use cases will become available to Live Context Retrieval (LCR). The network is a 20x increase in distribution away from achieving an

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@0xdrej

7 months

laptop stays on

Grass

@getgrass_io

7 months

Big thanks to all users for your patience earlier. We did have some network difficulties when 250,000 people joined in a single weekend, but we’re back online and everything's running smoothly. Now let’s all get back to touching Grass 🌱

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@0xdrej

4 months

If you believe in a free internet, then you are also a GigaBud

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@0xdrej

27 days

This is only the beginning.

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@0xdrej

16 days

AI is nothing without the ability to access up to date knowledge

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@0xdrej

26 days

Very big thank you to @byKatherineRoss for taking the time to listen to me ramble on about Grass! Immensely grateful for our early supporters, and excited for what the future has in store.

Blockworks

@Blockworks_

26 days

CRYPTO FUNDING EXCLUSIVE: HackVC leads Series A round for @getgrass_io

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@0xdrej

11 months

we've had a massive influx of new @getgrass_io users in the last 12h and are currently conducting maintenance to upgrade our infra & handle the load

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@0xdrej

10 months

you heard it here first 🌱🚗

Andy C 🚙⚡️📡

@Ajchatham

10 months

@0xdrej @getgrass_io on it 🫡

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drej (e/acc)

@0xdrej

10 months

hello world

Blockworks

@Blockworks_

10 months

NEWS: Developer behind web scraper app Grass raised $3.5 million from Polychain and Tribe for decentralized AI development

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@0xdrej

7 months

wow

drej (e/acc)

@0xdrej

7 months

Is someone at the ISS going to run a grass node? !

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@0xdrej

2 years

I would like to reveal what I’ve been working on for the past few months and how I think it could become the next major use case for blockchain. It’s called @WyndNetwork - a decentralized web proxy network. 👇

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@0xdrej

11 months

We're building the first oracle for decentralized AI. When I was working in tradfi 6 years ago, I recall a popular interview question for young traders being, "why can't a model like AlphaZero predict movements in the stock market?" At the time there was a lot of hype around

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@0xdrej

4 months

There are many who don’t yet fully understand the importance of Grass in its gravity. The AI industry is moving at a breakneck pace, and every day that goes by brings more uncertainty. How will the world be different a year from now? Five years? Ten? AI startups are being

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@0xdrej

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yes there’s alpha

drej (e/acc)

@0xdrej

16 days

just had a ton of fun recording a podcast with @0xsky404 , stay tuned

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@0xdrej

4 months

we'll be releasing something exciting for all the OSAI developers out there next week. it's a tiny snapshot of what Grass is doing, but I can't wait to see what people build with it

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@0xdrej

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@NDIDI_GRAM @getgrass_io Hey there - I've sent you a DM but replying here for visibility as well. @grassfdn is responsible for this and they're going through about 100,000 appeals. They've told me that sometime this week is a realistic timeline for appeal resolutions.

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@0xdrej

4 months

should we open source this?

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@0xdrej

4 months

reply to this tweet (or DM) with your best data visualizations if you’re interested in a role as a data analyst at Grass

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@0xdrej

1 month

sometimes the algorithm gets it right

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@0xdrej

3 months

Decentralizing AI only makes sense if it’s user-centric. AI models are built from the internet’s data, which wouldn’t exist without the contributions of billions of users around the globe. Decentralization allows people to take back what’s theirs. It’s difficult to think of a

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@0xdrej

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I’ve been getting a lot of questions about UpVoteWeb and what it means for open sourced AI as a category. I’ll start by saying that UpVoteWeb would not have been possible without the coordinated effort of millions of nodes (users) around the world. These nodes are routing web

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@0xdrej

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just had a ton of fun recording a podcast with @0xsky404 , stay tuned

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@0xdrej

10 months

I'm seeing many misconceptions about what @getgrass_io has permissions to do (as well as some fear mongering being propagated by one of our - terrified! - web2 competitors). If you're still concerned, please treat this post as a security related AMA. I'm here to answer questions

conte 🌱 | LCR

@0xcontentooo

10 months

It's a standard plugin permission. As you can see, your favorite wallets have the same or even more permissions compared to @getgrass_io

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@0xdrej

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@0xdrej

8 months

3 million per hour now

drej (e/acc)

@0xdrej

9 months

If you think you’re late to joining the Grass movement, consider the fact that Grass is currently scraping 13,000 long form articles per minute and isn’t even being mentioned in these research pieces yet…. And this is just the alpha test.

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@0xdrej

10 months

it's a venue where we share grass alpha & discuss the future of ethical web data scraping for AI models

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@0xdrej

4 months

we won't have succeeded in our mission until we've achieved an internet scale web crawl, powered by hundreds of millions of nodes around the world

Michael Cho - Rbt/Acc

@micoolcho

4 months

@getgrass_io is gonna become the world’s largest scrapper & therefore proxy to the entire internet dataset. Anyone seriously building giant foundational models sld be talking to them right now. Congrats @0xdrej

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@0xdrej

10 months

Y’all really referred another 100k people on Christmas Eve

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@0xdrej

4 months

Extremely flattered to be considered a success at this stage of our development, but we’re still less than 2% of the way towards achieving the true scope of what Grass is capable of. The concentration of companies that are capable of wielding the entire internet to their will

Regan Bozman

@reganbozman

4 months

12/ The quiet success from this cycle so far has been @getgrass_io Grass has hit 2M+ active users by offering a browser extension + mobile app that monetizes your unused bandwidth This is a great overview from @joel_john95 and @shutterbugsid

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OPOS

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@0xdrej

10 months

👀

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@getgrass_io

10 months

GRASS MOBILE NOW LIVE ON SAGA! To celebrate, we’re adding one more Saga phone to our giveaway! Now, you have the chance to win one of three @solanamobile phones in total. In order to enter remember to: • Follow • Like & RT the quote tweet • Put Grass ref link in bio

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@0xdrej

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DeSci will likely be among the next big narratives this cycle (thoughts from a PhD dropout). I've been reflecting deeply on the state of scientific research and its future trajectory. It's evident that the current system is fundamentally flawed. We're operating within a

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@0xdrej

4 months

hey bud(s)

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👀

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@0xdrej

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Is someone at the ISS going to run a grass node? !

The Space Station is Getting Gigabit Internet

NASA is upgrading the ISS communication system with the first end-to-end laser relay system.

www.universetoday.com

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@0xdrej

10 months

I don’t understand the obsession with modularity for the sake of modularity. Apple gave us a masterclass on how to optimize usability without sacrificing composability in the place it matters most (the application layer). Why fade this playbook?

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@0xdrej

9 months

Hey everyone - I'm back. As many of you are aware, my X account was compromised last night. This was a coordinated attack which involved the perpetrators impersonating me with a fake ID in addition to SIM swapping me. Everything is back to normal now and we have contacted the

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@0xdrej

2 months

welp, this wasn't supposed to be leaked this early

🍓🍓🍓

@iruletheworldmo

2 months

the next paradigm shift: from cloud computing to field computing. every blade of grass a potential processor. 🍓

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@0xdrej

6 months

this was a lot of fun to record - thanks again to @Shaughnessy119 for being such a wonderful host

Tommy

@Shaughnessy119

6 months

New @PodcastDelphi with @0xdrej the co-founder of @getgrass_io 🌱 Built on @solana , Grass is a live DePIN Crypto x AI project with 2M users Grass scrapes the internet's past, and future, data to train AI models and so AI models can reference accurate real time info Thread 👇🏻

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@0xdrej

1 year

Tech giants are using you to help them scrape one another's data, and you aren't getting a penny. Here's a deep dive into the world of data extraction, AI, and your role in it. 🧵

Grass

@getgrass_io

1 year

When will AI change the world? Look around you: it already has. Reddit shuts down for a week. Twitter imposes rate limits. Nobody's talking about it, but these events are a direct response to the rise of AI. What's happening? Welcome to The Data Wars.

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@0xdrej

2 years

The geniuses over at @Y2BFinance forked Y2K so blindly that they even copied/pasted the math typo I made in the whitepaper into their docs

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@0xdrej

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@0xdrej

7 months

@woleswoosh @getgrass_io no personal data - you can reference the blog post we wrote about this a while back (or take a look at the source code directly within the extension)

Grass Q&A on Privacy and Security

Join Grass's beta to earn passive rewards by selling your unused internet. Learn how it's secure, private, and doesn't impact your internet experience.

www.getgrass.io

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@0xdrej

10 months

10 invites here

Join group chat on Telegram

t.me

drej (e/acc)

@0xdrej

10 months

200 rt and i'll open 10 spots in the secret grass tg group

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@0xdrej

8 months

Wouldn’t be surprised if the deal involves SEO priority as part of the package. The big search engines have such an asymmetric advantage when it comes to negotiating for data access. All the news outlets are coming next

unusual_whales

@unusual_whales

8 months

Reddit has struck a deal with Google, $GOOGL, to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, per Reuters.

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Yam Peleg

@Yampeleg

5 months

We are not running out of data. We are running out of publicly available, very easy to access data.

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@0xdrej

9 months

if you have any questions about Grass, make sure to tune in!

Grass

@getgrass_io

9 months

Gm! Exciting news: Our first Community Call is happening this Thursday, Jan 25 at 11:00 AM EST. Join us to learn more about the mission of Grass, meet some of the team, and best of all, touch grass 🌱 See you there!

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@0xdrej

7 months

absolutely love our community

lazo61

@z_man61

7 months

Sergeant Lazo Episode 3 recruiting R2D2

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@0xdrej

10 months

Before paying $5k on eBay, try touching grass and you might get the coolest phone in the world

Grass

@getgrass_io

10 months

Grass X Solana: SAGA GIVEAWAY! To celebrate our upcoming launch on @solanamobile , we've got two Saga phones up for grabs. These are 100% sold out, so enter to win one now! - Follow - Like & RT this tweet - Put Grass ref link in bio Winners announced next week, stay tuned!

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@0xdrej

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on unique device fingerprints on unique non datacentre IP addresses

Gordy | LCR

@gordythegiga

7 months

One Million Users One Million Transactions per Second

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@0xdrej

9 months

Grass Box sounds catchy

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@0xdrej

10 months

Slowly, then all at once

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@0xdrej

10 months

Got mega doxxed but definitely worth it to get to be on such a great podcast - thanks again for having me on @dspillere !

Hotspotty / DePIN Hub

@hotspotty

10 months

🚀🎉 Congrats to @getgrass_io for the successful fundraise, and for building an amazing #DePIN project! 🌿 Check out the full interview: 📺 YT - 🎙️ Spotify - 🎤 Apple Podcast - Make sure to check

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@0xdrej

4 months

In the dark forest of AI, crypto gives us another chance to do things the right way. Some great (and above all, realistic) takes here

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@ed_roman

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@0xdrej

5 months

@BlurCrypto This hasn’t been on the website in months. This was included because there are many Grass users who have never used crypto & don’t want to participate in governance, and it’ll be important for Grass to eventually also include non-crypto off-ramps for them.

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@0xdrej

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people doubted us, but after 3 weeks we already have more real users than many L1's

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@0xdrej

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@InfluencerDee @tradewithAURA @getgrass_io hey there. Grass doesn’t sell any of your data, and it has absolutely nothing to do with your personal data. More than happy to have a discussion about this if you want to learn more. You’ve also been in my DMs for months asking for an “ambassador allocation” - idk what this

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@0xdrej

4 months

💚

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@getgrass_io

4 months

Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to GRASS SUMMER! Please head over to the Rewards tab on your dashboard and connect your Solana wallet now. We want to thank you all for being with us on this ride, and we look forward to sharing the next steps of this process. Remember - it’s

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thinking more about zk

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thinking about zk

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🌱☀️

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10 months

#grassgeckos

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@0xdrej

6 months

tune in to learn about all the latest lawn care routines

Tommy

@Shaughnessy119

6 months

Dropping our @PodcastDelphi with @0xdrej of @getgrass_io tomorrow 🌱

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@0xdrej

4 months

OpenCo7/UpVoteWeb · Datasets at Hugging Face

huggingface.co

Prashant

@Prashant_1722

4 months

OpenAI GPT-4o was a Reddit chatbot says Andrej Karpathy 🤯🔥

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@0xdrej

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what’s the best decentralized storage platform & why?

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@0xdrej

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big things coming

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@0xdrej

8 months

looking forward to joining @aeyakovenko , @knimkar , @DSobande123 , @ezklxyz , @rendernetwork , @ionet_official , @synesis_one , & @gensynai for a discussion on AI x Solana in 10 min

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@0xdrej

10 months

Would you buy a "Grass box" that you could plug into your home internet router for boosted uptime & rewards? Asking for a friend.

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@0xdrej

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Our data models are like onions. Complex layers, and sometimes they make us cry.

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10 months

🌱

Seeker | Solana Mobile

@solanamobile

10 months

Wow, what a day 🔥🔥🔥 We've officially SOLD OUT of Saga phones in the US! A huge thanks to everyone who's been part of this journey ♥️ To our frens in Europe, we've still got a few left for you. Stay tuned for what's next 🫡

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Seeker | Solana Mobile

@solanamobile

10 months

@getgrass_io We're SO excited for this 🌿

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@0xdrej

8 months

Are there any good technical reasons for rollups to settle on ethereum? If the answer is security pls cite an example that doesn’t have a centralized point of failure

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@0xdrej

8 months

Looking forward to the @SuperteamDAO ecosystem call tomorrow!

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@0xdrej

10 months

massive shoutout to @DIMO_Network , can’t wait to use my new Macaron!! this is one of the coolest DePIN projects out there + founders are based

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@0xdrej

10 months

Super insightful report as usual by @Old_Samster and @DAnconia_Crypto . On a separate note - still can't believe we've 3x'd our user base since these numbers were recorded!

Sami Kassab

@Old_Samster

10 months

Just dropped the most in-depth report on DePIN with @DAnconia_Crypto covering developments in 2023 and where the space is going in 2024. Report can be accessed for FREE on @MessariCrypto (link at end) In 2023 there were over 650 DePINs, >$20B in market cap, and >$15M ARR

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@0xdrej

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petition to bring back the solana store @aeyakovenko

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drej (e/acc)

@0xdrej

9 months

the models need the data and the data needs the models

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drej (e/acc)

@0xdrej

10 months

I assume told him about Grass?

Iced

@IcedKnife

10 months

just got the most insane alpha holy fk

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drej (e/acc)

@0xdrej

10 months

☀️ 📱 🌱

Gordy | LCR

@gordythegiga

10 months

🌞📱🪱⏺️

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drej (e/acc)

@0xdrej

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@HHorsley 3. Democratization of data collection. At the moment most web data used to train models is being scraped with residential proxies that are hijacking people's home internet connections with 0 or close to 0 compensation. Crypto (specifically @getgrass_io by @WyndNetwork ) enables

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