Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by fedpost on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:16PM (#50347587)

I'm...weirdly unsurprised by this.

I've had a lot of luck getting LLMs to do interesting things with raw tabulated data.

Here's an example, plug this into the model of your choice:

  Here's a puzzle: what is this data from?

  39.0 2582 8.8 24
  39.2 2592 9.6 22
  39.4 2607 5.4 15
  39.6 2619 11.5 30
  39.8 2620 10.8 28
  40.0 2622 5.9 16
  40.2 2642 13.1 28
  40.4 2654 8.8 18
  40.6 2656 3.6 9
  40.8 2665 5.7 12

This is raw data I have laying around that's not from the internet and not part of any training set. It should be able to tell you A LOT about what's going on here, including multiple specific "make and model" type things.

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by twothreeone on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:26PM (#50347671)

My klaus kot says it's elevation data from a fitness tracker (distance in km, elevation in m, stddev, max-min). It also says there's no way to identify make and model without "seeing the original file" :D

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by fedpost on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:50PM (#50348217)

You have the last two units right (stddev, max-min spread) but not the first two.

FWIW I tested this a couple times on opus and it got it instantly.

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