Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by omgwtfbyobbq on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:39PM (#50346889)

My impression is that it's somewhat analogous to someone with a lot of experience teaching someone who is much younger and has much less experience.

More generally, I think some of Michael Levin's ideas about intelligence are more broadly applicable than we would like to admit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_3tlEOLj4

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by direwolf20 on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:45PM (#50346924)

Transfer learning is a thing but it's not done by passing one model's weights as decimal numbers through another model.

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by omgwtfbyobbq on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:14PM (#50347127)

It might be analogous to animals learning by observation versus learning by in instruction, although it sounds closer to bacteria trading dna.

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by cowlevel on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:28PM (#50347681)

It's more like showing a pigeon a piece of paper with the DNA printed out in ACGT letters and having it cross some out with a pencil, then you put that DNA back into a bacterium and it's antibiotic resistant and grows twice as fast.

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by omgwtfbyobbq on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:49PM (#50347828)

It seems far more pedestrian than that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50347685

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by elif on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:34PM (#50347278)

I don't think human cognition heuristics are the right tool to describe what's happening.

Like a turbocharger isn't analogous to feeding a horse a certain diet. A turbocharger has to be explained in the terms of its actual context.

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