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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by tty456 on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:17PM (#50343885)
Like altering DNA
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by bonoboTP on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:42PM (#50345847)
No, not like that at all.
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by asdfsa32 on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:22PM (#50346778)
How is it different?
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by Timwi on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:44PM (#50348180)
Brains and neural nets are already quite different things and difficult to compare, but at least you can wave your hands and vaguely say that both are “thinking” by some means of “abstraction or generalization”. DNA is absolutely nothing like that. DNA is more like an encoding for a flowchart for a recipe for building a specific body.
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by asdfsa32 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:30AM (#50349119)
> encoding for a flowchart

Which is exactly what a model with it's layer is.

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by dyauspitr on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:48PM (#50346947)
Exactly like that.
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by bonoboTP on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:03AM (#50348294)
Both sound cool and "like, the future, maan" while smoking weed, otherwise nothing in common.
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by ashkankiani on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:31AM (#50348459)
why do we need to anthropomorphize everything. what it's like is altering the model weights of a computation graph, because that's what it is.
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by tty456 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:28AM (#50349104)
It's not anthropomorphizing anything. It's comparing the act of altering weights as "instructions" as similar to altering our own building blocks.
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