Nima Badizadegan
@specbranch
I think and write about software, hardware, math, and foundational computing technologies. MTS at Anthropic, all views are my own.
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The model he told you not to worry about
Rust gets a lot easier when you realize the borrow checker is just a compile-time garbage collector.
Anthropic is doing another recruiting social targeted at the quant trading industry, in London this time! The last one went really well and people tended to enjoy learning about AI and Anthropic even if they didn't plan to join. Signup link in the thread!
Happy Independence Day!
I find it hilarious that a bunch of cryptobros on @Polymarket have discovered a sudden interest in men's fashion, analyzing whether Zelenskyy's clothing on any given day constitutes a "suit."
Waymo vs Uber is the new Target vs Walmart
Anthropic staff realized they could ask Claude to buy things that weren’t just food & drink. After someone randomly decided to ask it to order a tungsten cube, Claude ended up with an inventory full of (as it put it) “specialty metal items” that it ended up selling at a loss.
When the government ends a tweet with the rocket emoji, it hits different than when you and I end a tweet with the rocket emoji
Moral clarity and decisive action under pressure to protect Americans and forge a durable peace in the Middle East. Forever proud to serve a President and Secretary of State committed to Peace Through Strength and an America First foreign policy 🇺🇸🚀
Crypto scammers hacked the VC firm most likely to actually try to run a crypto scam.
OpenAI: asymptotically approaching GPT-5 Anthropic: asymptotically approaching Claude 4 Google: asymptotically approaching Gemini 3
Inspired by @standupmaths and his secret Santa adventures, join Alice and Bob for a trustless secret Santa set up for their math department (using as little cryptography as I could muster): specbranch.com/posts/cryptogr…
You mean the mayor associated with the NYPD, an organization known first and foremost for abusing its authority, was abusing his authority?
Breaking News: Mayor Eric Adams of New York City was indicted following a federal corruption investigation, said people briefed on the case. nyti.ms/3ZAKOib
Basecamp did 5,250 req/sec at peak yesterday. Mean response time was 90ms. So call that needing 500 cores at max load. If you skipped redundancy, you could probably do that with 3 boxes each running a Z5 192-core AMD chip with room to spare. Servers have gotten crazy fast!
If you are working on something AI-related, AI Grant is a fantastic opportunity. They have a great network of founders and give a lot of support to their companies. Highly recommended.
Friendly reminder that AI Grant Batch 4 apps close tonight at midnight PT! airtable.com/apprmvmcYfM0dX…
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