August 2026 · Research
How the Via Panisperna Fellows set records across four frontier AI training challenges.
The ideas behind our work on the Modded-NanoGPT Main and Optimization Tracks,
OpenAI's Parameter Golf, and the SlowRun Tiny Track—and what the process taught us
about collaborating with coding agents.
The Panisperna Fellows
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March 2026 · Essay
Pointing intelligence at the edge of the unknown.
Every hard problem humanity has not solved yet is, at its core, a
problem of insufficient intelligence applied for insufficient time.
This essay argues that if intelligence becomes scalable, the
infrastructure that organizes its output becomes load-bearing.
Francesco Pappone ·
@tensorqt on X
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