Show HN: Zero-power photonic language model鈥揷ode

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Description Entropica is the first generative language model whose forward pass is physically realizable as a passive linear-optical interferometer (zero electrical power during inference). A 1024-mode, 32-layer unitary network using only Reck-scheme MZI meshes and Born-rule readout learns coherent TinyStories-style generation in under 1.8 hours on a single laptop GPU. Model is ready for a full optical implementation path demonstrated with printed phase masks and a $30 laser pointer. All code, weights, and dataset generation scripts are public.

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