Nate MacFadden

I make computational things faster. Mostly high-performance computing for string theory; lately, playing with LLMs and ML more generally.

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Writing

• Speculating on a Strix Halo (part 2) — August 2026
• Paging the n-gram table — August 2026
• Speculating on a Strix Halo — July 2026

Software with some of my code in it

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  CYTools (primary maintainer, developer, BDFL)

  Calabi-Yau geometry at scale: triangulations, toric data, and the rest of the machinery string theorists actually need.

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  Geant4

  CERN's toolkit for simulating particles through matter.

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  Macaulay2

  A computer algebra system for algebraic geometry and commutative algebra.