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  • The math involved in LLMs is not complex for anyone that has passed undergrad Calc and Linear Algebra classes. If you know derivatives, the chain rule and some matrix basics you can figure them out with enough studying.

    The hard part about LLMs is not the math but the neural net architecture innovations they brought (eg self-attention)











  • Not the downvoter but SBMM is a necessary evil if you have a matchmaking system instead of purely community servers.

    In community servers, there’s an equal emphasis in the community as well as the gameplay, so you don’t mind getting dunked on as long as you have some fun with your teammates and dick around in chat.

    When there’s matchmaking, however, everyone aims to win the match and move on. If you don’t have some type of SBMM, the new guys just get dunked on over and over with little chance to learn.

    The example I have for this is TF2. In Valve servers the players with thousands of hours completely dominate everyone else, and without a sense of community this got tiring for me pretty fast, even on TF2 where there are some impromptu fun moments (conga chains etc). I tried to play circa 2015, I think they added some sort of sbmm afterwards with the competitive updtae.

    Note that I say this as an argument in favor of community servers, not in favor of SBMMs, but as long as corpos make the games that’s not gonna happen sadly.