Nima Badizadegan @specbranch

I think and write about software, hardware, math, and foundational computing technologies. MTS at Anthropic, all views are my own. specbranch.com Joined July 2021

Tweets

361
Followers

265
Following

274
Likes

484

Nima Badizadegan @specbranch

2 weeks ago

Apparently TSMC makes honey now

0 0 1 100 0

Nima Badizadegan @specbranch

2 months ago

Rust gets a lot easier when you realize the borrow checker is just a compile-time garbage collector.

1 0 0 185 1

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!

7 12 350 67K 109

Nima Badizadegan @specbranch

3 months ago

Happy 4th of July! 249 years of life, liberty, and the grind.

0 0 1 118 0

Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos

3 months ago

Happy Independence Day!

17 38 321 8K 2

Download Image

Nima Badizadegan @specbranch

3 months ago

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."

0 0 0 117 0

Nima Badizadegan @specbranch

3 months ago

Waymo vs Uber is the new Target vs Walmart

alli @sonofalli

3 months ago

Waymo vs Uber is the new Target vs Walmart

8 1 102 11K 4

0 0 0 127 0

thebes @voooooogel

3 months ago

43 176 3K 199K 259

Download Image

Anthropic @AnthropicAI

3 months ago

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.

65 211 4K 845K 326

Download Image

Nima Badizadegan @specbranch

3 months ago

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

DOGE State @DOGE_STATE

3 months ago

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

482 376 2K 174K 59

0 0 0 85 0

Nima Badizadegan @specbranch

3 months ago

Crypto scammers hacked the VC firm most likely to actually try to run a crypto scam.

2 4 21 2K 1

palcu @AlexPalcuie

4 months ago

they warned me joining an AI lab meant CCP spies seducing me, but so far it's just Dario suspiciously pushing cheap iTunes gift cards

1 1 32 1K 0

Nima Badizadegan @specbranch

6 months ago

OpenAI: asymptotically approaching GPT-5 Anthropic: asymptotically approaching Claude 4 Google: asymptotically approaching Gemini 3

0 0 1 121 0

Nima Badizadegan @specbranch

9 months ago

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…

0 0 0 116 0

Nima Badizadegan @specbranch

a year ago

You mean the mayor associated with the NYPD, an organization known first and foremost for abusing its authority, was abusing his authority?

The New York Times @nytimes

a year ago

You mean the mayor associated with the NYPD, an organization known first and foremost for abusing its authority, was abusing his authority?

408 2K 5K 1.9M 329

0 0 0 173 0

DHH @dhh

a year ago

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!

100 63 2K 2.2M 548

Nima Badizadegan @specbranch

a year ago

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.

Hersh Desai @Hersh_Desai

a year ago

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.