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Re:Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT by fauxpause_ on Sunday May 21, 2023 @08:21AM (#36020152)
I don’t really care if he knows it or not. Best case he’s virtue signaling ignorance.
Re:Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT by doetoe on Sunday May 21, 2023 @01:10PM (#36022884)
I think you're still misreading my comment (and dragonwriter's and Knuth's): we all know or can look up what temperature is in randomized algorithms. However, what temperature 0.7 means is a mystery to me. I know that at temperature 0 the result is deterministic, and at higher temperature the randomness increases (possibly they are the Boltzmann factors associated to some energy function, but I don't know, and even if it is, I have no idea how it is scaled, i.e. what is the value of the Boltzmann constant). I know that the API accepts values from 0 to 2. I don't know more. Do you?
Re:Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT by fauxpause_ on Sunday May 21, 2023 @03:49PM (#36024151)
Yes. I have posted both a very nice link and a complete explanation from chat gpt 3.5 itself. It’s honestly not that complicated, especially for someone who is supposed to have any sort of authoritative view in the field.

I do not feel it is appropriate for you to say you have looked it up if you don’t know what it is besides an API input that affects randomness.