As compute has outpaced memory bandwidth most recent stuff has moved away from ReLU. I think Llama 3.x uses SwiGLU. Still probably closer to ReLU than logistic sigmoid, but it's back to being something more smooth than ReLU.
Indeed, there have been so many new activation functions that I have stopped following the literature after I retired. I am glad to see that people are trying out new things.
App store developers and app store participants don't have a good way to collectively organize, whereas Apple shareholders get all kinds of support to organize together.
The increase in bots and cheaters got progressively worse as matchmaking took over and ate away at the ability of private servers to maintain a community. Also before that, TF2 becoming a giant microtransaction experiment certainly didn't help.
Still though even today I can open up TF2 and still have a few favorited servers that have been going for a decade+. I can join those servers and play bot and cheater free for the most part.
The increase in bots and cheaters got progressively worse as matchmaking took over and ate away at the ability of private servers to maintain a community. And before that, TF2 becoming a giant microtransaction experiment certainly didn't help.
Also the mailing list I spoke of are basically dead at this point as the number of invested server admins has dwindled.
Still though even today I can open up TF2 and still have a few favorited servers that have been going for a decade+. I can join those servers and play bot and cheater free for the most part.
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