Grant Max standing permission to publish public Spark/Nemotron benchmarks with no pre-approval

Situation

Max asked whether he had permission to submit a state-of-the-art single-unit Nemotron benchmark on DGX Spark to a public benchmark site under his own name, fixing bugs in the currently submitted benchmarks. Peter said do it, and when Max offered to write an internal doc first for Peter and Lindsay to review before publishing, Peter overrode that and told him to publish first and write the addendum after. Peter generalised it: whenever you do it, just do it, you do not need permission to make us look good. Max is to share the finished public artifact with Peter and Bjorn afterwards.

Reasoning

Self-consistency drove it. Peter rejected the review-first sequence by explicitly naming the NARF conversation he was about to have - so much of what I want to talk about around the NARF doc is how do we unblock people to just get going. Approving a permission request while preparing to complain that NARF stalls on permission-seeking would have contradicted the argument, so he demonstrated the principle on himself first. The risk is also asymmetric and Peter named it: Max would not be asking if the numbers looked bad, so the gate was screening for a failure mode that cannot occur. Secondary value: the public URL becomes an artifact usable with NVIDIA contacts, and Maxs upstream contributions embed him in the Spark community - both worth more early than polished.

Additional Context

Peter also probed whether CIQ should care about Spark at all - do we own 50 percent of the Sparks on the planet or one-tenth of this one - and separately noted four GB200s are now in Reno that Maxs Spark work should carry over to. Peter confirmed the decision as correct on review.

Observed Evidence

Direct quotes; Peter said do it three separate times and then actively reversed Maxs proposed review-first ordering.

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