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LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?
In Part 1, I described how duplicating a block of seven middle layers in Qwen2-72B — no weight changes, no training — produced the #1 model on the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard. The method, which I called RYS (Repeat Your Self), was discovered using nothing but hard math probes and EQ-Bench on a pair of RTX 4090s.
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AI & Machine LearningSoftware Engineering2026
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Mar 24, 2026 | LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language? by realberkeaslan | 147 | 41 |
