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Rohan Pandey

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Rohan Pandey

@khoomeik

descending cross-entropy to ascend entropy @PeriodicLabs || prev research @OpenAI @CarnegieMellon '23

San Francisco, CA

Joined February 2020

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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
Sep 30, 2025
Excited to finally announce what I've been up to since leaving OpenAI: autonomous science at @PeriodicLabs Why? Because I Take the Bitter Lesson Seriously To accelerate AI, we must enable it to hill-climb compute & energy through experimentally verifiable science 🧵
Liam Fedus
@LiamFedus
Sep 30, 2025
Today, @ekindogus and I are excited to introduce @periodiclabs. Our goal is to create an AI scientist. Science works by conjecturing how the world might be, running experiments, and learning from the results. Intelligence is necessary, but not sufficient. New knowledge is
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
May 19, 2025
let the white guy order for the table and he got 3 butter chickens, 3 garlic naans, and 3 mango lassis
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
Apr 1, 2025
since bossman is now monitoring my account, i will only be retweeting official openai releases from now on. this is my last tweet. thanks everyone it was a good run.
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@BigCryptoAlert
Apr 1, 2025
🆕 @sama has started following @khoomeik
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
May 5, 2025
I’ve left OpenAI! Already miss everyone on the Training team & my friends ❤️ but very excited to soon announce what’s next Until then, I’ll be taking a break to solve OCR for Sanskrit so we can immortalize the classical Indian literary canon in the weights of superintelligence
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
Apr 1, 2025
Replying to @sama
sorry bossman can’t respond cuz i’m locked in rn
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
May 19, 2025
Replying to @amogh44259214 @MatternJustus and @aryaman2020
yeah i lied mine was actually malai kofta but close enough
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
Apr 12, 2025
i probably wouldn’t be working on LLMs today if i hadn’t fallen in love with linguistics, in large part due to the Aṣṭādhyāyī 2500 years ago Pāṇini realized the structure of language in the mind is entirely computational, and distilled it into <4k morphophonemic lines of code
out of context the white lotus
@oocwhitelotus
Apr 9, 2025
what book is this?
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
Jun 25, 2025
the CIA is not ready for the RL era israeli intelligence guy just hacked into a live surveillance camera in front of me with an exploit generated by qwen vulnerable software is simulatable. penetration success is verifiable. hacking is RLable.
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
Nov 20, 2023
bro acquired openai without having to pay a penny
Satya Nadella
@satyanadella
Nov 20, 2023
We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
Aug 12, 2025
hot take i know many friends will disagree with me on: this is a deeply selfish act of theft from civilization if you’re a smart capable young person, society poured millions of dollars into raising you you have a moral obligation to pay it back with the surplus of your labor
shani 🌱 (sf)
@sha_zng
Aug 10, 2025
my smartest friend in college left tech & is now a farmer at a buddhist monastery his days are: harvesting & meditating & walking through the forest & cooking his meals he could excel at anything he wanted. he chose a life that is simple and good, with all his intelligence
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
Dec 6, 2023
quick schizo theory: top and bottom quarks were originally called "truth" and "beauty" quarks "satya" in sanskrit = truth "sundar" in sanskrit = beauty the 2 mfs competing in the race to AGI are named after opposing fundamental particles the simulation is fucking with us
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
Sep 16, 2025
there was ~1 guy at openai responsible for inference CUDA kernels let’s call him Bob, people would refer to his attention kernel as “the Bob kernel” it executed probably trillions of times a day on hundreds of thousands of GPUs one singular guy
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
Dec 27, 2024
bittersweet to learn that the classical indian philosophy student-taught course i started at cmu is still being taught but they quite literally find+replaced all instances of “indian” with “south asian”
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Rohan Pandey
@khoomeik
Nov 4, 2024
I’ve joined @OpenAI to research model architecture on the Training team! Our team develops the deep learning architectures that underlie models like GPT-4o and o1. I’m working as a Resident under the guidance of the 🐐’ed @sasha_borzunov, @7aureliaguy, and @_aidan_clark_.
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