Gemini 3.7 Flash helps revive interactive CMA-ES explainer site
doodlestein · x · 2026-08-26
The author shared how they used Gemini 3.7 Flash to successfully fix and revive an explainer site for the CMA-ES (Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy) algorithm.
The site provides an interactive explanation, mathematical derivations, and live simulations of CMA-ES. CMA-ES is a standard workhorse for black-box optimization, particularly useful when gradients do not exist, suffer from severe noise, or are computationally expensive (e.g., aircraft CFD, bridge FEA). It maintains a Gaussian search distribution and iteratively adapts the mean and covariance matrix to mimic the inverse Hessian, discovering landscape curvature without derivatives. The site is built with WASM + Rust, running a sub-millisecond SIMD parallel engine in the browser.
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