A figure climbing out of rock and reaching for the stars, under the words Per aspera ad astra — Eero Järnefelt, *Per aspera ad astra*, 1894. British Library.

vansh taneja

hi. I am a partner at Bold where i invest in ai research, infrastructure, chips and ai for bio/science. lately thinking about recurrent networks, zeroth order optimisations, test time scaling, in memory compute, communications etc. feel free to reach out if you are working on any of this.

Fig. 1. Per aspera ad astra. One bowl, two descents. Dashed follows the gradient. Solid never sees it: each star is a step taken on two function evaluations alone. Seed 20261004.

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