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0 pointsbayindirh3mo ago0 comments

Compilers and processors are deterministic by design. LLMs are non-deterministic by design.

It's not apples vs. oranges. They are literally opposite of each other.

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Just to nitpick - compilers (and, to some extent, processors) weren't deterministic a few decades ago. Getting them to be deterministic has been a monumental effort - see build reproducibility.

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Scene_Cast23mo ago

Just to nitpick - compilers (and, to some extent, processors) weren't deterministic a few decades ago. Getting them to be deterministic has been a monumental effort - see build reproducibility.

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