Affine Grapples with KOTH System and Sampling Variance
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SN120 team discussed concerns over the recently introduced King-of-the-Hill (KOTH) mechanism, with miners arguing it incentivizes spam models and slows honest training. Multiple reports emerged of high variance in TERMINAL evaluations with only 200 samples, causing rapid champion shifts. The team indicated KOTH is temporary and promised a significant beta product rollout tomorrow.
- •KOTH policy under debate; miners claim it rewards spam over quality training
- •TERMINAL task variance too high with 200-sample evaluation window
- •Sampling rate reported slow; team investigating potential bugs
- •Major beta product launching tomorrow, details pending
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