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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:30PM (#50342319)
Its so cool! Im wondering if this is actually better than using techniques in mechanistic interpretability like linear probing with activation steering or activation patching to improve the performance.
Re:Xiami Mimo 2.6 Live Training Dashboard on Thursday September 17, 2026 @12:26AM (#49736406)
Total run cost is $1.2M until now, what resources are they using to train their model? Wish they shared more details on that and what the MFU metrics are.