Blogs
Dispatches from the Crystl Labs crew.
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I Picked My Tour de France Fantasy Team With a Real Quantum Computer. It Told Me Not to Buy Pogačar.
I optimized my Tour de France fantasy roster with real IBM quantum hardware: gate-based QAOA, not a hybrid solver. A provably lossless 172-to-45 rider reduction, an exact classical ILP baseline, and four real QPU jobs later, the optimal team benches Pogačar, and a trained 21-qubit circuit found that exact optimum twice through the noise.
The 80MB "Hello World": Why Your Framework Is a Liability
A fresh React Native "Hello, World" ships 50-80MB of native libraries and boots an entire second runtime before it draws a pixel; the same app in native Kotlin lands under 500KB. Binary size and boot latency aren't implementation details, they're user-facing costs paid on every install and every cold start.