This is the personal website of Jacob Zymet, acting as a record of what I build and study, and a place to develop and organize my thoughts.
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Beating a Broken Bureaucracy: Make Yes Easier Than No
Excessive bureaucracy, especially when completely incompetent as a whole, very rightfully irritates many, because it directly affects one’s life in one or more meaningful aspects. When you are not in any position to...
LLMs Can Discover Cures for Diseases
Many people argue that large language models (LLMs), in their current form, cannot discover cures for diseases like cancer because they are trained to predict tokens rather than understand or interact with the...
Natural-Sparsity Acceleration for Ternary LLMs
Tests whether the natural zeros in pretrained ternary LLMs justify a bitmap/sign GEMV engine over five-trit packing. They help only when zeros are common and weight reads are expensive.
Some Startups Exist to Solve a Problem, And Others Exist to Be Startups
I’ve been working with computers and technology since I was around nine, and I’m now nineteen. Most of that time has been spent privately tinkering with and building software across web development, backend systems...
Unshackled From Money, Free to Pursue Our Dreams
Lionel Robbins defined economics in 1932 as "the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses," and this definition remains highly influential...
Hardware-Aware Additive Quantization for LLM Inference on AMD Zen 5
Many quantization methods prioritize reconstruction quality and adapt the resulting representation to available hardware. This proposal instead begins with a specific hardware primitive and derives the quantization format and kernel around it. Permaq is my...
I Don’t Think LLMs Are the Final Architecture of Superintelligence
Modern LLMs are increasingly multimodal, so calling every LLM purely "text-based" is no longer entirely accurate. Images, audio, video, and other inputs can also be represented and processed by these systems. However...
An Agent-First Compiled Programming Language
Elon Musk recently said, “The next step is getting rid of “source code” entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI.” I largely experimented with this idea through my Athena project a few years ago, in which fine-tuned large language...
Latest projects
nullguard
nullguard is a small, open-source alternative to VeraCrypt, written in Rust. A vault is a single ordinary file that mounts as a normal folder when unlocked with a password or keyfile, with contents, names, sizes, and structure encrypted and authenticated. It ships as one portable binary for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Pingo
Pingo is an experimental, open-source Python application for encrypted communication over IPv4 ICMP. A shared transport supports reliable messaging, resumable file transfers, and VPN tunneling through Linux TUN or Windows Wintun, with authenticated sessions, congestion control, and bounded reconnection.
Gopher
Gopher is a local, lightweight, more permissive alternative to Open WebUI: an open-source desktop harness for local and cloud LLM APIs. It combines chats, projects, multi-model Loops, memory, attachments, and model pins with an approval-based agent that can search the web, browse, work with files, run terminal commands, and use custom skills.