Qwen3.8-27B took a serious hit to *knowledge* vs 3.6

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Like many of you I've spent the last few days throwing Qwen3.8-27B against all of my usual use-cases and personal tasks/harnesses and workflows. It's great, phenomenal sometimes, but that's not what this post is about. One of my little personal benchmarks is a little set of pocket trivia that's relevant to me but mildly obscure mixed in with a few useful/prepper questions. Qwen3.8-27B at all quantization levels and sampling settings I threw at it, did relatively poorly at this. It's failing ques