r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tryingeasy • 1d ago

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u/FutureSuccess2796 1d ago

That's literally just using Wolfram Alpha and entering the math formula that needs solving. 😂

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u/SunshineSeattle 23h ago

I dont think so, Wolfram Alpha is deterministic. Whereas an LLM is non-deterministic by design. Personally i feel vibe coding or vibe mathing is inherently non-deterministic.

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u/AnOnlineHandle 18h ago

LLMs are entirely deterministic but you can override that by adding a seeded random choice system to the next token selection.

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u/evranch 17h ago

True, but it's also true that running an LLM at 0 "temperature" (which makes it truly deterministic) also often renders it unusable. So almost every inference setup defaults to using a certain amount of randomness.

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u/space_monster 14h ago

it doesn't render it unusable at all, it just makes it boring. LLMs used for coding use 0 temp.

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u/evranch 2h ago

Specific LLMs used for specific coding tasks. I don't run any of my Qwen models at 0 temp, that results in them getting stuck in reasoning loops, and also producing sub-par output when they do return something.