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aforwardslash • yesterday at 9:39 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Thats actually exactly on point; thing is, are programs deterministic? It depends; one can argue that any speculative execution pipeline cannot be truely deterministic from a timing perspective; its not an issue for a compiler, but it is for many applications. Gcc optimization flags were notorious to expose both compiler defects and non-deterministic code.

An LLM is a stochacstic system. With enough rounds, its undistinguishable from an emulated deterministic one, if you consider a delta greater than zero. Oh and each implementation/iteration give you the same determinism guarantees :)


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topaz0 • today at 9:44 AM

One can and does argue many disingenuous things, evidently.