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andai • today at 6:14 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

>I used Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B as the starting point. I needed a small model to get close to realtime performance. Being a coding model, it had also already seen plenty of CLI usage.

Interesting. I wanted to ask, how that model compares with the fine-tuned version, but I just saw the author provided benchmarks. Interesting that fine-tuning improved the memory so significantly, wouldn't have expected that.

Though, on second thought, I had an experience where I was able to, as a human, fine-tune my memory beyond what I previously thought was possible!

Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes.

Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?

—Practice, man... Practice...


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treetalker • today at 6:59 AM

> … I had an experience where I was able to, as a human, fine-tune my memory beyond what I previously thought was possible!

Please elaborate.

simedw • today at 6:35 AM

I haven’t run extensive tests yet, but larger models also get better at memory.