honnibal.dev/blog/astra-read-write-misleading The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading
A critique argues that a post claiming Astra can read and write weights conflates distinct experiments. Only networks of 17K–172K weights were handled from raw weights alone, while the Qwen math result, which raised MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1%, also used Python and up to 50 batches of practice problems.