🚀 Helion’s Fusion Timeline: First Electrons by 2028? @Jason & @alex talk to David Kirtley @dekirtley , CEO of @Helion_Energy , about the race to commercial fusion power—and @Microsoft's big bet. 🔹 First Electrons by 2028 → Helion's fusion tech aims to deliver electricity straight from plasma—no steam turbines needed. 🔹 Microsoft Deal → A power purchase agreement, with stiff penalties if Helion misses their deadline! 🔹 7th-Gen Prototype is Live → Testing now in Everett, WA, proving fusion can generate usable electricity. 🔹 Scaling Up → Powering data centers by 2030, full commercial deployment in the early 2030s. 💡 How close are we to the fusion breakthrough? Microsoft thinks it’s coming any day now. ⬇️ Watch the full clip below ⬇️

Do LLMs have true generalizable mathematical reasoning capability or are they merely memorizing problem-solving skills? 🤨 We present MATH-Perturb, modified level-5 problems from MATH dataset to benchmark LLMs' generalizability to slightly perturbed problems. 🔗 🧵 [1/n]

The Source Code interview I first met Bill Gates in 2004 at the Computer History Museum. He was back today for an interview with Patrick Collison about his new book. The best demo he ever had: spending five hours with Simonyi at Xerox PARC. They created a typeset master plan for Microsoft on Simonyi’s bitmap work processor. “I spent more time at PARC than Jobs. When he later accused us of stealing the Windows UI from Apple, I said ‘no, no, no, we both stole it from Xerox.’” Chat GPT was the second best demo. “We were just trying to write software faster than anyone else. It wasn’t any one product.” “I am certainly on the spectrum. I was late to develop social skills. I rock back and forth, and apparently, that’s not that attractive. I just turned 70, and my resolution is to give up rocking.” (I noticed his foot bouncing up and down throughout the interview) Did LSD affect you like it did Steve Jobs? “Definitely not. Paul Allen was very much into this Jimi Hendrix song Are You Experienced? Paul gets me drunk, and gives me pot, hash, eventually acid. The insult that Steve Jobs said was that if Bill Gates had dropped acid, maybe his products wouldn’t be so poorly designed. And I said to Steve, ‘look, I got the batch that was good for engineering, and you got the batch that was good for design. I’m, sorry. I wish I had your batch too. It would have been a nice extra skill set to have.’ (laughter) You know, you are always thinking you are having profound thoughts, and afterward you wonder if you brain was permanently damaged. So, I gave that up fairly early on. ” “All four of my grandparents are devout Christian Scientists. My parents were raised that way. It’s very strange; they don’t seek medical help. My parents bonded over their rejection of Christian science. I believe in science and medicine.” (we passed anti-vax protesters with big signs at the entrance) “We had the computers playing tic-tac-toe and Monopoly.” Patrick: “Ah! You started early.” (long pause) Gates: “anyway,” and changes subject. “AI will make intelligence free.” “The aging society problem is solved by the robots are coming problem.” “If nuclear fusion does not work, we will need some miracle of storage for solar.”

Type One and @CFS_energy signed a fusion magnet agreement allowing us to design proprietary stellarator fusion magnets by levering CFS’ leadership in developing and manufacturing some of the world's strongest fusion magnets 🌎 Read the full release:

We finally have an answer to the debate over whether LLMs generalize to new math problems or they merely memorized the answers. We evaluated them on the AIME 2025 I competition from *yesterday* and the results are good!

2/4 Growing up, Wright was inspired to tackle the challenge of energy generation, he said. That brought him straight to the Commonwealth Fusion Systems' roots: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “I went to @MIT for only one reason: They had these two tokamaks — Alcator A and C — that looked like a promising path to fusion energy,” he said. “I came as a 17-year-old kid to work on energy.”

Today, I saw this beautiful spherical-shaped Aizawa (Langford) attractor based on differential equations visualized by @jcponcemath, so I plotted it in LaTeX using Lua for the calculations with the Euler method and TikZ/pgfplots for drawing in the 3D coordinate system.