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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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