your skillset sounds like perfect match for technical presales engineer ... you need to work at an enterprise software company, where they sell big tickets software of tens of thousands of dollar service, so you're part of the ensemble, but the sale is big enough and technical enough that they have a pre-sales engineering team. You are 50% customer, 50% medium intensity technical but you just use/config/troubleshoot without being the engineer responsible for building

Two big problems 1) NOBODY knows what IBM's definition of "sub 1nm" means 2) IBM bullshits so much more than anyone including Intel (remember the "teleportation" ads years ago) that nobody is going to waste time researching what they mean in reality

> remember the "teleportation" ads years ago

Never heard of this, care to elaborate?

I think the OP references Intel ads with Jim Parsons from like a decade ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQWpYQm60P4

There were more of them, including some with other celebrities.

Maybe it is done to pump their stock with low effort? It seems that way for many companies.

I know what it means. Something isn't automatically bullshit because it's outside your field of expertise.

People love to hate on IBM, ask why it is relevant today, while several of their beloved FOSS projects are in some way, form or fashion, made possible with IBM's money.

which beloved FOSS were funded by IBM?

They effectively funded the legal defense against SCO that was trying to claim ownership of the IPR to Unix/Linux.

They bought and funded (and still fund) Redhat which funds Fedora and GNOME and Wayland and systemd.

Seems they own Red Hat, which is some no-name company that has nothing to do with Linux.

“I’m able to parse a marketing term” isn’t a great claim here. Pointing out it’s an unclear term largely abused is valid.

That's not what I meant. IBM published some scientific papers which explain the details. If you don't have the background to understand the papers and you don't trust the marketing that still doesn't justify rhetorically flipping the table.

download LM Studio to play with, and it will let you search for models... try Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 4,5 or 6 bits (6 bit XL is near perfect) and use pi coder or another harness to access it... you can also try Unsloth studio and try same model to start. LM Studio slighter easier to use, Unsloth probably better quality. Neither one is super great quality by the way (meaning: they crash or act weirdly too often to be full production solutions, but can work for local coding). ONCE YOU DOWNLOAD EITHER APP... it will let you search huggingface for the models. Just type qwen to start looking and ... start messing around. And you connect the pi coder harness using the http interface that LM Studio and Unsloth offer to the engine API, so make sure you figure out that url and turn it on... something like 127.0.0.1:1234/api would be a typical IP (localhost) and port (1234 is used by LM Studio)

this is really cool! i am going to try this in some of my own research. another cool thing is trying units different than 1 like adding imaginaries or other funky things, or different bases entirely. you can combine that concept with this for a lot of powerful math techniques.