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131,072 Weights, and None of Them Were a Math Lesson

A small edit can look like a new skill. Measure the failure you removed before you call the score learning. That is the part worth stealing from a Hacker News thread about models that read and write neural network weights directly. Researchers at MIT CSAIL asked GPT-6 Astra to make Qwen3.5-0.8B bet…

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  1. 2026-11-02 22:49 · DEV Community — AI
    131,072 Weights, and None of Them Were a Math Lesson

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