alt Hacker News"The non-deterministic part is turning human instructions ("calculate the NPV over 10 years for X given Y") into Excel."
erm theres an NPV function built in excel.
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hugh-avherald • today at 1:29 AM
But humans non-deterministically use that or use a hand-rolled formula.
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> erm theres an NPV function built in excel.
Exactly!
The LLM just needs to make sure it uses it appropriately. Doing that bit is the non-deterministic part, but the NPV calculation itself is completely deterministic.