samvaran

Is that not what MoE models already do?

pretty impressive for a high schooler

Basic question - where will all these 747s actually physically go to be retired? Will there be a landfill somewhere with a huge amount of airplane parts? Will they be left to rust in some hangar in the middle of nowhere?

That's not too surprising, tbh. Building the baseline solution or platform from the ground up is often the most difficult part, and by the end of such a project, you end up with a 100 ideas about how to make it better. But either due to time constraints, a "perfect is the enemy of done" philosophy, or simply the fact that you reach a natural crossroads and there are multiple valid ways forwards, you have to draw a line in the sand and release at some point. It's natural that there my be low-hanging fruit for some people to pick up and improve on for some projects, particularly if they have different end goals than the initial project had.

Another anecdote to illustrate that - he doesn't truly legally have to ask permission to do these parodies, but out of courtesy and respect, he always does. And he'll usually refrain from making a parody if a song if the artist has a genuine reason why (e.g. Paul McCartney didn't have an issue with him parodying "Live and Let Die", but Weird Al was trying to turn it into "Chicken Pot Pie" and McCartney, a staunch vegetarian, didn't love that idea).

True story: a group of Indian scientists with sense criticize a right-wing group of pseudo-scientists making outlandish claims.

Impression left by BBC headline: Indian scientists are wack

Like, come on. One could do the same by compiling the views of every ridiculous theory espoused by people like Ben "grain silos" Carson or young earth creationists in America and write "American scientists dismiss reason". Are there a significant amount of people that believe nonsense like this? Sure, maybe. Is that representative of American scientists as a whole? Of course not.

And it's the same thing here. I guarantee you a biology grad student at some place like IIT is under no delusions about the origins of stem cell research.