Ok, so we all agree that in most cases the reason to minimize square error is that it’s the appropriate thing to minimize - not that it has an analytical solution, convenience or tradition.
Just following this comment up as a note-to-self: just as `kgwgk noted, the default gemma3:27B model has ID a418f5838eaf, which corresponds to 27b-it-q4_K_M. But the new gemma3:27B quantization-aware training (QAT) model being discussed is gemma3:27b-it-qat with ID 29eb0b9aeda3.
Among those "trans people who are assigned female at birth" who "get hysterectomies" how many would you say are doing it because the organ is diseased. (Not that the proposal is practical, of course.)
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