Nick Oak

AI engineer & researcher | building with AI and for AI | previously: quant, Revolut, 1inch, computer vision lab |

[Nick Oak @buildoak_]

@nestymee the most flowers for algernone moment for me been the silent mid March Opus 4.6 RLHF update - safety aimed

that has degraded quality for out of the distributions tasks (like hard CUDA math)

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@nestymee flowers for algernon - cause it will be nerfed / quantized ?

or cause other models will be dumber comparing to it ?

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@Angaisb_ this is brilliant!

what is the general intuition behind the tooling that codex has for building structures ?

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@enjojoyy freediving is goated as well

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@enjojoyy @DavidOndrej1 gpt 5.5 is the best this days

at least for C++, CUDA, Metal, Rust

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@sflorimm you need strong verification gates for good C++ code

vibecoding with verification gates - seems to be called just “software development” this days

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@enjojoyy 1) 4h back and forth - writing plan with 15-20 items
2) goal - implement this plan, each step, end to end

got several times 30h + runtime

but mostly because it was long running CUDA code

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@FCB_Cartel @sama CUDA & C++ code is also meh last days

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@trikcode vibe-vibecoded will not compile or will crash with a set fault

proper code with gpt 5.5 and tests and verification gates seems to be working fine (computation math with CUDA)

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@rezoundous it’s like the entropy thingy with two black holes

that the resulting one is more than just sum of two

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@caffeinum @grok is it true ? extrapolate from known data an human bikers who can draw ~400W of power consistently

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@nicdunz funny enough - thinking about it leaded me to writing:

https://t.co/Xb7Czzd70J

TLDR:
if it’s a simulation - it’s probably not a brute force simulate every particle and field

because this requires Kardashev ~7.4 to do it

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@nicdunz codex app + cli installed on a remote seems to be goated

but it’s kinda fragile if the latency is huge

which is the case for Tailscale + traveling + random networks

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@jun_song maybe some cheaper model that learns how to predict activated experts for ~100 tokens forward

combined with smart orchestration of RAM <—> Video memory

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it’s just going and going

new sqrt(40) static moat has been found (upper boundary logic, static annulus moat, nothing can cross the area)

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I’ve also found sqrt(40) gaussian moat at around R=950M with methodology I’m 99.99% sure is mathematically sound and complete

codex is really cooking on this one

it has adjusted the annular band width in order to refine the findings as per the protocols we have developed manually for known moats

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I ain’t getting much likes atm

but I think it will be useful anchors once the paper goes public and PR outlets will be reached

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so there is a fun board game called Codenames

Smart games about words and associations

and surprisingly there has been 1 year old bench for how LLMs can play this game (GPT-4o era)

and no one has done yet the re bench of this

so cool idea could be to make nice visual bench where 4 models will be playing this game dynamically

and their actions could be observed and attempted to be interpreted

could be done with open weights models & analogue of circuits tracer in order to interpret the activations as well

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after fine tuning computational math repo codex is cooking there semi automatically for ~4 days so far with maybe daily or bi daily nudges from me

it’s basically running CUDA kernels on 4090 and documenting results as he receives them

he also adjusts the campaign if needed

for example - I’ve found the gaussian moat for sqrt(36) at around 73.8M

which is tighter estimate than last paper!

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@tenderizzation I mean
the less pirates the warmer the Earth is I guess