Burhan Saifaddin

Do what's right, and fear no man.

[Burhan Saifaddin @BSaifaddin]

@DamiDefi Ask it to do the rebuttal—concisely

[Burhan Saifaddin @BSaifaddin]

@roydanroy How do you lean category theory?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hadamard thought in image space

[a16z @a16z]

World Labs CEO Dr. Fei-Fei Li: "The world is not made of words."

"Language models have given machines an extraordinary command of concepts, vocabulary, and reasoning, but the physical world, virtual or real, runs on a different substrate."

"Where language models learn the statistical structure of text, world models learn the statistical structure of space and time: how light falls on a surface, how a garden looks from an angle no camera has captured, how objects respond to force and follow the laws of physics."

"Language gave machines a way to talk about that world. World models are how machines will finally come to understand, imagine, reason and interact with it."

Full piece: https://t.co/C9qOJg5wuc

[Chris Olah @ch402]

https://t.co/udIVxLdid5

[Kenneth Schlenker @kschlenker]

Today we're announcing the new Opal to build the operating system for attention.

1 million people already use Opal every single day. We raised $10M.

Personal AGI is coming.  The bottleneck won't be access to intelligence.

It will be attention.

[Burhan Saifaddin @BSaifaddin]

Society about to look unrecognizable!!

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

Attempted to write a Steam Engine hype at the era of Industrial Revolution as if it was the age of AI —

The steam engine breakthrough is insane right now.

Watt’s separate condenser + new GRPO optimization just dropped the 405 hp-class engine. We went from 7 hp → 70 hp → 405 hp+ in basically three years. One machine now does the work of 50+ men or water wheels — nonstop, rain or shine, anywhere.

Textile mills, ironworks, everything scaling 5-10x overnight. Productivity exploding.

This isn’t incremental. It’s automating physical labor at massive scale. Jobs shifting forever. Society about to look unrecognizable.

The Industrial Revolution isn’t coming. It’s here and accelerating faster than anyone predicted.

Terrified. Excited. Both.
What a time to be alive. 🚂💨

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket

[Burhan Saifaddin @BSaifaddin]

@Jason I’m in

[Burhan Saifaddin @BSaifaddin]

This is not solid reporting at the standard the claim deserves. Many problems with your conclusion:
https://t.co/g0UDF6vIDo shouldn’t trust unidentified “officials”—they could be lying and misrepresenting complex discussions for political purposes.
2.The report used a much weaker claim than “urging.”
3.The journalists dramatization of the narrative pushed by anonymous sources makes the claim unreliable

[Mariya I. Vasileva @mariyaivasileva]

This is one of the coolest Pi Day traditions I have ever seen, and I'm sharing in the hopes that more math enthusiasts might be interested in joining!

On Friday, March 13, Prof. Cory Palmer and a team of graduate students at UM are doing something extremely neat — a 24-hour nonstop marathon math lecture which will cover, essentially, the material of an entire math degree in one day!

Lecture starts Friday 9a MDT and runs straight through the night until Saturday 9a. It’s designed to be open and accessible, so you can join anytime, come in as a beginner, and leave knowing *a lot* more math.

🗓️ Schedule: https://t.co/gaqUyjQ3tP

🎞️ Livestream: https://t.co/e6xwvIvYGr

If you’re like me and you wish you lived five lives, so in each one you get to be a mathematician versed in a completely different subfield, or if you just enjoy the idea of people explaining topology in the middle of the night, this is worth dropping into.

[Burhan Saifaddin @BSaifaddin]

@NC_Renic 🎖️

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.

https://t.co/rM77LJejuk

[Burhan Saifaddin @BSaifaddin]

@KSAMOFA ❤️

[Igor Babuschkin @ibab]

I’ve tested the latest generation of all the major AIs on theoretical physics research and Claude 4.6 has absolutely blown me away with how capable it is in physics. It feels like a Claude Code moment for research is not that far off.

It has a very detailed understanding of existing literature, and it’s able to do complex calculations that are several pages long, often without mistakes. It can also write amazing 20 page tutorials that help break down difficult technical topics in QFT and condensed matter physics. This is a huge difference compared to last year’s models, which would make tons of mistakes and were way too vague when you asked them to write formulas. Claude is still far (far) away from solving quantum gravity, but you can have a serious discussion with it about existing approaches and it can help you iterate faster on topics you understand well. The experience is similar to building a complex codebase with Claude Code in that you sometimes have to use your understanding to patch up some things that the model did wrong, but you end up being much faster and more confident when tackling hard problems. If you’re a physicist and don’t believe it, give it a try!

[vitrupo @vitrupo]

David Kipping says something fundamental has shifted in science.

At a closed meeting at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), top physicists agreed AI can now do up to “90%” of their work and may soon push discovery beyond human understanding.

“I don’t know that I want to live in a world where everything around me is just magic.”

He says the best scientific minds on Earth are now holding emergency meetings about what comes next. This isn’t speculative anymore. It’s really happening.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

To the stars!

@SpaceX & @xAI are now one company

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

On December 8, the Perseverance rover safely trundled across the surface of Mars.

This was the first AI-planned drive on another planet. And it was planned by Claude.

[Harmonic @HarmonicMath]

Aristotle

[Burhan Saifaddin @BSaifaddin]

@drmarkhyman @function 2025