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by reverius42 275 days ago
Given that they all use pseudo-random (and not actually random) numbers, they are "deterministic" in the sense that given a fixed seed, they will produce a fixed result...

But perhaps that's not what was meant by deterministic. Something like an understandable process producing an answer rather than a pile of linear algebra?

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I was thinking the exact same thing: if you don’t change the weights, use identical “temperature” etc, the same prompt will yield the same output. Under the hood it’s still deterministic code running on a deterministic machine
This is incorrect. Temperature would need to be zero to get same result.
This is not correct. If the algorithm is deterministic and the random seed is the same, temperature can be anything and get the same result.

Same as using a seed to get the same map generated in Dwarf Fortress.

Thanks for replying, this is what I thought as well.
You’re right - TIL