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bdangubicyesterday at 10:07 PM1 replyview on HN

nobody can how how something that is non-deterministic works - by its pure definition


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threethirtytwotoday at 3:03 AM

LLMs deterministic simply because computers are at the core deterministic machines. The random number generator is an illusion and an LLM that utilizes it will produce the same illusion of indeterminism. Find the seed and the right generator and you can make an LLM consistently produce the same output from identical input.

Despite determinism, we still do not understand LLMs.