Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
by cowlevel on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:30PM
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What you're describing is a shitty version of gradient descent, which is the technique used to train LLMs and other neural networks. Proper gradient descent simultaneously calculates how much every weight improves the output, and edits them all simultaneously in proportion to that.
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
by kristopolous on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:19AM
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obviously. unless you have the equivalent of a coin toss, no metric carries implication. Does naive noise give you nothing? The null hypothesis needs to be established.