Greg - Builder of Many Things

On the eve of this platform turning into X and considering I've been around here for almost a decade, I might as well pin a tweet about who I am and what this is account is about. My name is Greg and I'd like to think I'm a guy who has walked in many shoes. In fact, if I ever write a book about my life, I just gave you the title. I'm the son of an immigrant who came to the US with basically nothing and worked his ass off to provide quite well for us. My dad taught me the value of a solid work ethic and never quitting. He instilled in me a can do attitude and I am fearless when it comes to taking on new challenges as experience has taught me I will overcome. Every 10 years or so I metamorphose into something new professionally. I ran an IT consulting firm in my 20s. In my 30s, I built turbocharged all wheel drive street demons and road racing cars. In my 40s I pivoted to crypto and have built megawatts worth of data centers across the country while learning to ape into shit coins. At one point I even helped build a privacy coin that alas, eventually flopped. Each new iteration of myself leveraged the skills learned in my former occupations, compounding them to propel me further. Lately, I've been figuring out how to build high performance houses and am preparing my pivot to building a real estate empire. I have my eyes set on RV parks and themed STRs, perhaps even a factory to product tiny homes. While I work on building my freedom from the various slave traps that exist for the common man, I also want to do the best I can for my family. I am shocked and dismayed by much that I see in the world (and I'm a pretty wild dude) and am quite concerned for the future my children are growing into. I'm working hard to arm them with the tools necessary to succeed which means hard work at the compound and home schooling so I can control their programming. As one of my father's favorite singers sang, I do things MY way. There is no better teacher than the experience of trying to make something work. Failure is just a part of the process and it's never the conclusion unless you give up. Never stop learning. Never stop building. If there is a God and we were made in His image, we are creators. Act like one.

@keennay @0xSero Request has been pending for days now! Please approve! : )

@Cointainer_Life @0xSero Join & ask away at x/LocalLLaMA! x.com/i/communities/…

Putting out a wish to the universe. I need more compute, if I can get more I will make sure every machine from a small phone to a bootstrapped RTX 3090 node can run frontier intelligence fast with minimal intelligence loss. I have hit page 2 of huggingface, released 3 model family compressions and got GLM-4.7 on a MacBook huggingface.co/0xsero My beast just isn’t enough and I already spent 2k usd on renting GPUs on top of credits provided by Prime intellect and Hotaisle. ——— If you believe in what I do help me get this to Nvidia, maybe they will bless me with the pewter to keep making local AI more accessible 🙏

@JosephStigler @0xSero This is the attitude to have. We can all help each other along! My juice is cheap. I have no problem giving those who know access to cycles to burn! Wen CPU AI ?

@Cointainer_Life @0xSero I also have lots of hardware but I want to learn the software side better. Let's trade!

@Innerdevcrypto Still looking forward to the day we can actually have a real conversation in person! I ain't leaving! (Though for my mental health maybe I should! lol)

No dm´s today 😢 It really is a bearmarket 🤣 Did so many really leave? 🤔 Don´t care, i love this space 😍

@sudoingX Got GPU? See DM

they are keeping me so compute constrained. I would have double gpus, double ram but hardware prices said no. for now.

@sudoingX Tell someone to let me in! Pending for days! : )

let me get you started in local AI and bring you to the edge. if you have a GPU or thinking about diving into the local LLM rabbit hole, first thing you do before any setup is join x/LocalLLaMA. this is the community that will help you at every step. post your issue and we will direct you, debug with you, and save you hours of work. once you're in, follow these three: @TheAhmadOsman the oracle. this is where you consume the latest edges in infrastructure and AI. if something dropped you hear it from him first. his content alone will keep you ahead of most. @0xsero one man army when it comes to model compression, novel quantization research, new tools and tricks that make your local setup better. you will learn, experiment, and discover things you didn't know existed. @Teknium maker of Hermes Agent, the agent i use every day from @NousResearch. from Teknium you don't just stay at the frontier, you get your hands on the tools before everyone else. this is where things are headed. if you follow me follow these three and join the community. you will be ahead of most people in this space. if you run into wrong configs, stuck debugging hardware, or can't get a model to load, post there so we can help. get started with local AI now. not only understand the stack but own your cognition. don't pay openai fees on top of giving them your prompts, your research, and your most valuable thinking to be monitored and metered. buy a GPU and build your own token factory.

@AdolfArminius I'm on reta and I have a resourceful and crafty dude! I found what I need on the net.

@Cointainer_Life Are you on semaglutide or reta? Reta is way better for weightloss. Do you get good prices through your insurance or are they ripping you off?

Around the 22nd of January I finally had enough. My wife told me she wasn't going on vacation with me unless I lost 30 pounds as I was about the fattest I've ever been at over 260 pounds. I started what she calls a dog food diet (lean ground beef / turkey and rice) and my own regimen of reta. In 45 days I have achieved my first goal, a full month and a half ahead of schedule. Ultimately my goal is another 30 pounds off to sit at 200. This has been the easy part. The hard part is how do I maintain the proper weight by restructuring my habits and not needing to lean on a crutch. For those who talk smack about those who need an assist in the use of peptides... I've got twin birds for you. I needed something to give me a boost so I could see results quickly to keep me motivated. I've struggled with my weight my entire life, cycling back and forth but always getting bigger. For the first time I'm feeling great about my trajectory and the likelihood of keeping the weight off. I came up with my own dosage plan, titrating up 0.5mg a week from 1mg. Side effects have been minimal and the results speak for themselves. I still have a long way to go but here is to weighing in at or under 220 the next time I have to take my shirt off in the sun! Oh and FML I started looking at the thing I hate the most in this world, gym memberships...

@jedifractal We give it a go!

I am now monitoring the situation like a boss.

@SantiagoAuFund All your base are belong to us

Anybody ever play Zero Wing...?

@TerribleMaps It's coming, but it will be globally. Master Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling – Dzhanibekov Oscillation (ECDO) Theory Just google it, read, and get ready. 8)

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

@gothburz Real

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

@ASo1omons LMFAO Spice baby.

It was a wonderous time..

Wife's Mercedes decided to give me yet another finger. I found the OE parts for way less than OEM. Can't complain too much about less than $350 to do the water pump, tensioner, pullies and belt. OFC, I'll be turning the wrenches. Just can't let another man touch my shit!

@MimanyMaker @Y0K0S0N Considering there is a 12 year age gap between my wife and I, a 10 year gap between my father and mother... Having traveled the world, this is far more common than most assume. Ain't nothing wrong with it if intentions are pure and this whole moral compass bs is exactly that.

@Y0K0S0N Ngl i lowkey disagree, i personnaly would feel uneasy going with a 18yo woman but as a father i d rather have her go with a 30yo that s successfull serious and can provide rather than a younger guy just here to fuck her or play with her

If I find out a 30 year old is pursuing my 18 year old daughter. Im going to prison and he is going to hell. You people are morally bankrupt.

@rossiadam I like that kind of shit!

Can’t stop buying shit 💸

@IncomeSharks @WheelieInvestor 😂

@WheelieInvestor This is what the checking account of millionaires looks like too.

Is this a good checking account balance for a 19 year old?

What if i cutted both my arms off and went to the sperm bank

Reject the single family home. Embrace the family compound.

The following is a horror story in two pictures. The first is the cost for 12 sticks of RAM I bought at the end of '24. The second is what one stick of that costs now... Oooph size...

@sudoingX 2x H200 NVL

drop your GPU below. i'll tell you exactly what model and config to run on it. here's what i've tested and verified on real hardware: RTX 3060 12GB - Qwen 3.5 9B Q4 - 50 tok/s - 128K context RTX 3090 24GB - Qwen 3.5 27B Q4 - 35 tok/s - 300K context RTX 3090 24GB - Qwen 3.5 35B MoE Q4 - 112 tok/s - 262K context 2x RTX 3090 - Qwen3-Coder 80B Q4 - 46 tok/s - full VRAM all running llama.cpp with flash attention. every number is real. every config is tested. if your card isn't on this list drop it below and i'll tell you what fits.