Well met, o'mergemaker!
Words were too feeble to describe what happened.
😊 Don’t worry, I’m still around.
I have plans for 3-4 new merges, I just haven’t had the time recently to actually do them, but they will appear eventually.
Also wow, this noslop version really exploded.
Good, they better do. This merge was indeed well made. However, as per the UGI Board, my experimentation had done more damage (due to some misconceptions and the lesser understanding that I had about the ablation technique at that time) than good in many areas, except for the willingness and UGI scores, leaving me unsure to what exactly garnered people's interest for the noslop-heresy version. It was probably a combination of both the novelty of noslop and the usual demand for decensored models that brought in the crowd applied to an already balanced model.
Anyways, I'm glad you're still around and merging models. Let me know if you need anything Hereticated (decensored). Godspeed with your endeavours, lad.
Ps. Some interesting reads on improving merges:
https://huggingface.co/OccultAI/Qliphoth-24B-v1.2/discussions/1#697c1f9e6f3086aeee1bfaa0
https://huggingface.co/Naphula/Slimaki-24B-v1/discussions/2#6984b24e4490533d25a49be9
https://huggingface.co/Naphula/Goetia-24B-v1.2/discussions/3#6980ddd8932e036a93f9c1d0