spaCy author attacks MIT Astra research: modifying Qwen weights accused of being a smoke screen

spaCy author Matthew Honnibal questions MIT Astra research, claiming its experiment modifying Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math scores is misleading, mixing reading weight, writing weight, and repairing large models; Honnibal points out that Astra repairs large models by using Python programming and multiple forward tests, not directly reading weights, criticizing its presentation for blurring the boundaries of different capabilities.