call for presenters on 9/23 for next yc paper club.. theme: alternative compute paradigms. speaker requests: #1# optical compute in the future future it cant be the case we - talk to the datacenters in light - talk intra-datacenter in light - then convert to electrons to math generate all the heat and consume all the energy. - then back to light out of datacenter seems like photons are enough. #2# doped diamonds: shout out to @KaraDiamonds and @AarinJhaveri for putting me onto this idea. synthetic diamonds have come down in cost to produce by 20x in last 10 years. making this a viable candidate to replace silicon. #3# bio-gpu: scariest one, but im fine w it if a cow brain or something.. a cluster of neurons we can plug into a rack. biology already iter'd for 4.5B years to make training/inference low power. would be interesting. #4# quantum: been promised to me for 20 years. all ppl i know working on this have said this is no where close. 5 neuromorphics: similar to quantum. but less exciting. but what do i know. -- any suggestions for speakers? any other crazy ideas to get off of silicon?

Signup below for next YC Paper Club - "Harness Edition" Killer Lineup: - @sethkarten - Prime Agent @PrimeIntellect - @beyang / @sqs - @AmpCode - @josh__france - QM @ycombinator - @JonSaadFalcon - OpenJarvis - ? One more slot for speaker. Who should I ask? 8.26 5pm-9pm MV Also, fresh look for paper club! 100% credit goes to @eve_bouff! Aiming for: ... 2am, full team, in lab, tryna meet May 6, 2026 AoE deadline, paper not compiling-kinda vibe..