Gary Miguel

TerraPower Announces $650 Million Fundraise TerraPower announced the close of a $650 million fundraise. This fundraise was comprised of both new investors, including NVentures, and current investors, including Bill Gates and HD Hyundai.

NVidia is hoping for nuclear powered data centers.

www.terrapower.com/terrapower-a...

I have no idea why Google continues to publish so much stuff that seems like it could help competitors, but I enjoyed reading this guide to scaling LLM training and inference.
jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/

Disappointed in Claude in Cursor this week. It just sort of brute forces things to get rid of linter errors rather than stop and reconsider the approach, despite haveng "thinking" enabled. Still maybe having something written that was obviously wrong saved me time vs starting from scratch.

laboratory.love Crowdfund chemical testing on everyday items

I just chipped in to get a food that I eat almost daily tested for harmful chemicals. Pretty neat. laboratory.love

My most significant open source contribution to date. Earl: a framework for scalable reinforcement learning research

Lets you do RL the way DeepMind does :-) Blog post about it:
www.garymm.org/blog/2025/03...

Nvidia Nsight Systems (performance profiler) takes like 3 minutes to start up on an M2 Pro. Oh the irony.

Computer science skills across China, India, Russia, and the United States | PNAS We assess and compare computer science skills among final-year computer science undergraduates (seniors) in four major economic and political power...

This surprised me:

(computer science) seniors in the United States substantially outperform seniors in China, India, and Russia by 0.76–0.88 SDs and score comparably with seniors in elite institutions in these countries.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Tried o3 mini in cursor and it just stopped generating output without warning multiple times. I'm back to Claude for a few days at least. Anyone had a better experience?

Summary of my C++23 implementation of Deflate decompression (core of Gzip, Zip, PNG)
www.garymm.org/blog/2025/01...

While working on machine learning research at the Astera Institute1, I led a team that assembled a system that enabled researchers to quickly and easily run experiments that used up to a full datacenter’s worth of GPUs.
Blog post with details:
www.garymm.org/blog/2025/01...

Origin of the distinct site occupations of H atom in hcp Ti and Zr/Hf The location of the H atoms in Ti, Zr, and Hf is crucial to the formation of the hydrides in these metals as it influences the crystal lattice transfo…

"As strongly requested by the reviewers, here we cite some references [[35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]] although they are completely irrelevant to the present work."

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Another example of California dysfunction.
Container port efficiency rankings (out of 405 ports):

Long Beach: 373
Los Angeles: 375
Oakland: 397

I've had something I ordered stuck in the port of Los Angeles for 2 weeks.

Source: www.iaphworldports.org/news/iaphnew...