Qwen3.8-27B IQ3_XXS wrote a correct multilayer TMM on a 16 GB Quadro — after 100 minutes, 3 compactions, and 108k output tokens

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https://preview.redd.it/i8rjx0ar5mlh1.png?width=2160&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2588bc7b2519ea71b176ca73faf566dfc585496 I wanted to see whether a heavily quantized 27B model running entirely on an older 16 GB workstation GPU could do more than the usual coding demos. FFT felt too easy, so I asked it to implement the coherent optical transfer-matrix method (TMM) for absorbing multilayer films from scratch. TL;DR: the implementation was correct long before the model believed it. It then spent most of