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

Joined July 2021
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Props to that one precinct in Coos County with like 10 people in it (probably more bears than people in that precinct) and always counts/reports its votes promptly. You are the real heroes.
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Since we're chorale posting, Fable 5.1 on "Extra thinking" produced this. There are some nits to pick with the writing, but every line is interesting and singable, and it's better than you might get from a theory student.
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Some questionable choices: * mm 5 and 9 go from vi->III chords, which is a bit odd * direct octaves/fifths in mm 5-6 between the bass and soprano when the soprano is moving stepwise - this also happens in mm 3-4 and 11-12, but those are both cadences
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Prompt: "Write a chorale in the style of Bach. Give me a MusicXML file as output. Use 4 voices (SATB parts), on separate staves. Write in G minor and in a 3/4 time signature." And then clicked the "continue" button when it ran out of thinking tokens.
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A really hard one: atan2(211974753563421437400711168, 4357954647310423) FP64
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Nima Badizadegan retweeted
The last thing you see before becoming fully aware of your situation
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Nima Badizadegan retweeted
Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!  The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN. LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.
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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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On a rather boring flight, and then: "If you are a licensed medical professional, please hit your call button."
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Nima Badizadegan retweeted
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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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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The model he told you not to worry about
Introducing Claude Opus 4.5: the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use. Opus 4.5 is a step forward in what AI systems can do, and a preview of larger changes to how work gets done.
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Apparently TSMC makes honey now
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Rust gets a lot easier when you realize the borrow checker is just a compile-time garbage collector.
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