YC Paper Club covers gradient-free optimizers and optical diffusion
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Y Combinator's Paper Club episode examines alternative compute: a gradient-free optimizer built to replace backprop, programming light propagation to run a diffusion model, and where neuromorphic computing stands in 2026.
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