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jadbox··on Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike
Lee Smolin a few years ago wrote a paper on quantum neuron plausibility: https://arxiv.org/html/2001.08522v1
jadbox··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Gemini 3.8 Flash looks like its better than v7 Luna/Sol on DeepSWE v1.1 while at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. Luna is much cheaper, but Flash has nearly Astra's performance for under the price of Sol ($2/$10).
jadbox··on I Hate You Microsoft
I do like Typst, but Typst isn't really ideal for diagrams... you could use it that way but I don't think it's ideal. Mermaid or PlantUML are better/cleaner options.
jadbox··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
This is the coolest thing on HN that I've seen in a minute. The whole thing is a perfect blend of ideas with the end result of something that feels... magical. Honestly this is the highest inspiration to me as a builder as I just want to create magical experiences, even if they are just small oddities.
jadbox··on Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions
Also: please use a credit union and use mutually-owned insurance agencies. As a general statement, you'll be in way better hands.
jadbox··on I have a theory that software drives people insane
As a founder of a few software startups, I agree with this. If I can give advice to other founders, remember than software is usually a means to an end, and for most users, they just want the bare bone essentials to work and work well. Everything else is nice-to-have-fluff that won't drive 99% of sales.

The apps I pay for are simple and focus on a super basic interface. BookFusion and Libro.fm are great examples.

jadbox··on Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
Q3 XL and Q3 XS are the two I'm trying to decide on
jadbox··on IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
who uses Iroh?
jadbox··on Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs
The new IQ4XS has been working pretty well so far on 4090 16gb.
jadbox··on Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement
I need someone to run actual benchmarks between the two.
jadbox··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
No API yet? I don't see it on OpenRouter yet.
jadbox··on Compression is prediction
This feels like an AI comment, but I feel compelled to respond.

Recursion is not needed when you regress system components to its foundamental representations, which can be derived without any recursion involved. In the thread example, I don't need to recursively determine how to compress how a planet orbits a mass. I only need to 'jump to the end' by define the rules of gravity and the mass/velocity of the bodies. What I'm driving at: I am suspicious of "Recursion is the Key" to better intelligence as it moves the goal post of understanding intelligence to 'mere' reflections without having to address other qualities of representations, qualia, novelty, etc.

jadbox··on Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning runs on how little GPU vram? Can q4 run on 16gb?
jadbox··on Microsoft filings suggest "around 70%" of its AI revenue is on OpenAI
How does Microsoft make revenue from openai when it doesn't get to use those profits as an org?
jadbox··on Fermi Paradox
Heretical view: intelligent alien life is everywhere swimming around us. We are just not capable of really understanding it. When a human walks past an ant, maybe the ant senses the shadow and the blockage of the sun.. but it isn't equipped to recognize the human. Likewise, I suspect we are in a similar situation where even our smartest minds and best scientifically advanced sensors are simply incapable of properly detecting these forms. Remember, the average age difference between planets in our galaxy is roughly 2 billion years... just imagine that an alien life 2 billion years older than humans have found easier ways to travel than little metal flying saucers. The question then may be if it's ever possible for us to sense these higher (plausibly extra dimensional) creatures. I suspect this will be a more fruitful direction to investigate rather than assuming we just happen to be the only exotic intelligent life in the galaxy.
jadbox··on Kimi K3-256k
Do any support the smaller context for better pricing?
jadbox··on Boox Go 10.3 (gen II) Lumi: First impressions
How exactly is it different in screen and hardware to the Boox Go 10.3 (gen II)
jadbox··on Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium
You could terminal into a remote machine terminal and use a web browser in the tty without needing an X11 windowing support.
jadbox··on Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16
Why is valkey better?
jadbox··on Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept
Sad that K3 and Gemini Flash 3.6 is missing from the benchmarks.
jadbox··on Does creatine make you smarter?
Just a word of caution, 25g has a very strong chance of causing intense bloating. I'm part of multiple athletic teams, and the general consensus is that more than 10g is generally "uncomfortable" for its bloat pressure effects.
jadbox··on Qwen 3.8 Max Preview
What's the price difference?
jadbox··on Ente – Opening Our Books
> "Showing off revenue and number of accounts is showing off a tiny portion of the picture"

Showing revenue is not "tiny" by any means. Considering that the vast majority of businesses hide this from the public, I think it's very notably "something larger than tiny".

> "but practically speaking [they] are broke"

How do you know this?

jadbox··on Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't
What do you recommend?
jadbox··on The Tower Keeps Rising
This reminds me of Ted Chiang's "Tower of Babylon". You really should read it (and all of TC's works)!
jadbox··on Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
You're not seriously posting about base rates without any form of agreeable evidence around such base rates?
jadbox··on Grok 4.5
That's very notable and left out of the announcement.
jadbox··on Holes
Did you not scroll over to see the even more massive Kola Superdeep Borehole?
jadbox··on Superpowers 6
How do I know if this is worthwhile without any benchmarks against 'not using Superpowers'?
jadbox··on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
I feel this in my soul. I thought I could replace a door in a day, but months of fiddling, I discovered by frame is not only a parallelogram but it literally shifts by over an inch between seasons. (~100yr old house 2nd floor)
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