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Re:The efficient frontier of LLM inference by regularfry on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @06:24AM (#49534308)
> The efficient frontier of LLM inference is a line, not a frontier.

The efficient frontier of portfolio theory is also a line. Not sure I get your point here.

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Re:The efficient frontier of LLM inference by fsckboy on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:13PM (#49540993)
not sure i get why you don't get it. why have the word frontier if it doesn't mean something different than other words?
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Re:The efficient frontier of LLM inference by regularfry on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:38PM (#49557450)
Because... it's an accurate description of the concept it's being applied to?
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