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Lavalamp too hot (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Nah, too cold. It stopped moving and the computer can't generate any more random numbers to pick from the LLM's weighted suggestions. Similarly, some LLMs have a setting called "heat": too cold and the output is repetitive, unimaginative and overly copying input (like sentences written by first autocomplete suggestions), too hot and it is chaos: 98% nonsense, 1% repeat of input, 1% something useful.

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