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Current Focus: Spark
A Novel Neural Network Architecture
Built from scratch in C++ and Metal. No frameworks, no pre-existing building blocks. Trained on a single M1 Pro laptop in under 20 minutes.
C++ / Metal / CUDA
Character-Level LM
WikiText-103
2.92
Val BPC
20 min
Wall Time
392
Runs
53
Days
Latest Research
Apr 9, 2026
Neural Architecture Research
Spark: April 2026 Results
First results from training a novel neural network on WikiText-103. 2.92 val BPC in 20 minutes on a single M1 Pro.
Apr 10, 2026
Technical Report
Metal Compute Shader Patterns for Sparse ML
Zero academic literature on Metal ML kernels. Here's what we learned building a sparse training engine from scratch.
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