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Meeting 9 Notes

Sutro Group meeting 9 on 16 Mar 2026, keeping the sparse parity problem while switching to the DMC metric.

Source: Google Doc (Meeting 9, 16 Mar 2026)

Working references: Gemini, DeepThink, ChatGPT, NotebookLM

TLDR

  • Keeping the same problem (sparse parity), but now relying on the DMC metric.

AI slides: Sutro Efficiency Synthesis (PDF)

Participants

  • Yaroslav Bulatov (host): leading the Sutro Group.
  • Moorissa Tjokro: SPC member. Indonesian background. Robotics engineer who previously worked on autonomous vehicles at Tesla and Cruise and built AI for emergency responders. Brought the dumplings and honey cake.
  • Anastasiia Zhiboedova: SPC member and ML Engineer at Amazon AGI.
  • Michael Keating: works for a company that sells cooling technology to data centers. Attending the NVIDIA GTC conference.
  • Jonathan Belay: participant whose mother is Russian and who spent a semester in Indonesia.
  • Yad Konrad (Yat / Yad K): former SPC member (2019) who participated asynchronously via a pre-recorded video demonstrating his automated AI researcher.
  • JackJack Ganbold: SPC member.
  • Andrew
  • Preston Schmittou