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bubbleboi: “This guy has 6.1 Astra running in a loop and is breaking the record for integer multiplication algorithms every few hours”

bubble boi @bubbleboiX

Why it matters

Viral framing (~25k views) of Colkitt’s results; the model attribution (GPT-6.1 Astra) is the poster’s claim, while Colkitt’s repository credits OpenAI Codex.

Summary

Quote post of @0xdoug’s κ = 2^-59 announcement, posted 20:42 UTC. The claim that “6.1 Astra” was running in a loop is bubbleboi’s; the repository README says only that the work was “performed with assistance from OpenAI Codex” and names no model.

Archived text

This guy has 6.1 Astra running in a loop and is breaking the record for integer multiplication algorithms every few hours lmaooooo.

Quoting @0xdoug: We are publishing an update to OpenAI problem #109 Integer multiplication) with another substantial further tightening:

Source: x.com/bubbleboi/status/2107934679294935317Archived 2026-10-07 via fxtwitter (unofficial).Counts: 24,717 views, 733 likes, 21 reposts, 12 replies (at fetch time)

Cited in

  1. Science & math 99 days after the cutoff

    With OpenAI Codex, Doug Colkitt tightens OpenAI’s sub-n log n integer multiplication exponent from 2^-182 to 2^-59 (conditional)