Why “LLM” is being discussed
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Morality is hard. It's all relative, and all we have to start from are our own Monkey social order concepts and basic "do unto others" game theory. That said, I think it can be…
by mapontosevenths · Oct 31, 2026
ChemEZ: LLM Wrapper with Chemistry Processing and Visualization
by researchbyayan · Oct 31, 2026 · 1 points
What do people think of property based testing? I’ve set up a few property based tests and it feels almost like formal verification. I know it’s not the same thing, but PBT’s ca…
by chamomeal · Oct 31, 2026
LoC *IS* the metric. It is obviously not perfect tho but still the best one to compare software surface. Including to compare the same solution in different languages and platfo…
by brazukadev · Oct 31, 2026
I don't think that LLMs mirror human cognition or "sanity" as much as people want to believe. We are not constantly hallucinating in any way that applies to the term as commonly…
by krapp · Oct 31, 2026
can you explain what can make an LLM deterministic? I'm Curious to learn more
by anothereng · Oct 31, 2026
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A large language model (LLM) is a machine learning model trained on a vast amount of text for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. LLMs can typically generate, summarize, translate, and analyze text in many contexts. They are the basis for many modern chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Qwen and DeepSeek. Read more on Wikipedia