Nima Badizadegan

I think and write about software, hardware, math, and foundational computing technologies.

MTS at Anthropic, all views are my own.

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@mattturck All the cool people are doing it

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@kipperrii Lounges are over. Lounges were great in 2010, but then everyone got a credit card that lets them in.

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@abrotherseamus @TheStalwart Satzverschachtelungsprüfung needs to exist

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@TheStalwart Oil prices are global, but that's a California gas station and CA has a completely local supply chain. They have fuel standards that give 1-2 refineries a ton of pricing power and they ship crude in from the Middle East instead of getting it by pipeline. Plus the tax.

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Few things are more American than standing up to your values in the face of pressure from the government. I was proud of Anthropic for living its values by being a key part of the arsenal of democracy, and I am proud that we continue to live those values with this stance.

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A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

https://t.co/Gg7Zb09IMR

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Very proud to work here today

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

https://t.co/rM77LJejuk

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@inerati Das boot

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On a rather boring flight, and then: "If you are a licensed medical professional, please hit your call button."

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Introducing Claude Opus 4.6. Our smartest model got an upgrade.

Opus 4.6 plans more carefully, sustains agentic tasks for longer, operates reliably in massive codebases, and catches its own mistakes.

It’s also our first Opus-class model with 1M token context in beta.

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Imagine if we had polymarket in 2004 so you could day trade the weekly casualty figures in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Laptop upgraded to Mac OS 26 and I am now convinced 2026 is the year of linux on the desktop.

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Merry Christmas!!

https://t.co/HUIQB47PTp

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@FischerKing64 You should really watch the American Bach Soloists recording of the Messiah on YouTube if you haven't yet. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is great but a bit too big for Handel.

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@tombos21 I personally think of these bets as micro-grants for good mathematicians.

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@paulg @pablogguz_ This chart is normalized per capita. It's not a representation of Spain's actual budget.

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I'm proud to announce that I've proven Navier-Stokes, the Hodge Conjecture, P=NP, and the Riemann Hypothesis with one new theory of mathematics that I hear from a reliable source is absolutely right.

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@lemire The first one is the best, but a designer could clean up the speedometer for you and it would also be nice. I can see why you may not like it if you feel it's generic.

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@OnlyCFO Or someone explaining net margins to you 20 years ago.

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@ChShersh Radix trees are pretty fun.

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@sonofalli niːʃ