Anders Brownworth

Building and Senior Advisor at @mitDCI. Formerly @FederalReserve, $USDC @Circle, @Bandwidth. Runner, Helicopter Pilot. Opinions my own.

[Anders Brownworth @anders94]

My brother, Lars Brownworth, is on Lex Fridman’s podcast https://t.co/VtF3opZ8ah

[Anders Brownworth @anders94]

He’s also on the Netflix miniseries Rise of Empires: Ottoman. More links to his books as well are at his website https://t.co/5ZKJbzzK0C

[Anders Brownworth @anders94]

My brother Lars Brownworth’s interview on @lexfridman’s podcast has over 1 million views. https://t.co/VtF3opZ8ah

[Anders Brownworth @anders94]

Dear all companies sending me surveys: my willingness to recommend your product (nearly 0) is disconnected from how much I like your product. (ranges from 0 to 10) Please do not convolve them.

[Anders Brownworth @anders94]

I have a similar problem with “up and to the right”. “Up” I get but time moves inexorably to the right. There is no other option than “to the right” - the only variable in that equation is “up”! Why add an invariant as a qualifier?

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Why do people say, “if and when”? If “when” is added as a required option then there can be no “if”. Makes no sense.

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@Cdempsey44 Fun read! I was right there with you about half the way!

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Over 800k views in 3 weeks of my brother Lars Brownworth’s Vikings interview on Lex Fridman’s podcast: https://t.co/xuW7bWsNPH

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@Falconortizx IMHO this is the major unsung win Apple has - unified memory and token generation performance per watt. Nobody seems to be talking about this but it’s a huge advantage.

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Just learned that in Xcode’s Apple Intelligence you can add a local LLM using ollama and have private AI coding assistance without an internet connection.

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@Falconortizx For me the quality lags commercial models only by a matter of months. At this point I use local models (gemma4 / qwen3-coder) to write tests and non-essential UI / backends. I’ll use a commercial model for architectural planning but implement things myself using local models.

[Anders Brownworth @anders94]

The Chernobyl accident happened 40 years ago today. It is a fascinating case of large system breakdown that hastened the end of the Soviet Union. The Chernobyl series HBO did on it is required watching. https://t.co/XtqTcV2NmL

[Anders Brownworth @anders94]

Models inspecting compiled code for bugs without source removes the last security moat closed source had.

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@austincampbell So in DeFi you would use tokens that represent “settled” tokens. They would essentially be locked in place until the representative tokens are returned.

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@austincampbell “As currently constructed” I agree with you. I never really understood the irreversible argument though. Reversibility is something you can add in a smart contract.

[Anders Brownworth @anders94]

A friend of mine, Bob Schulein, helped build the laser communication system that Artemis II is using to send this 4K live video stream of their destination, the moon! The link is going through Australia right now. https://t.co/f1KjnEG4bC

[Neha Narula @neha]

My take on Bitcoin and quantum computing:

https://t.co/bq2HdAsnXQ

tl;dr: I think the risk is high enough to warrant prioritizing designing, implementing, and evaluating post-quantum signature schemes and consensus upgrades in Bitcoin now.

[Anders Brownworth @anders94]

@JSeyff @EricBalchunas @TukiFromKL It used to do that when private links were the norm but it fundamentally relies upon encrypted channels for updates now.

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SSRN has our stablecoin paper https://t.co/yhGwx2Msjo

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@zooko Howdy

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If the next Mac Studio comes with M5 Ultra and 1TB of RAM, it’s over for the local LLM world. Apple wins.