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In all honesty almost all exams are gamed by studying question patterns, studying previous years' papers, etc. There's nothing wrong in that whatsoever. BUT it is such a toned d…
by __rito__ · Oct 31, 2026
> I don't know why you needed a paragraph to say that 1000% memory inflation is a trade-off to optimize dev costs Because that's not what I said. My point was more that a "1000%…
by pron · Oct 31, 2026
The question should really be the other way around - LLMs are just computer programs, and in general, computer programs are theoretically deterministic. Given the same inputs an…
by antonvs · Oct 31, 2026
The climate is going to change. The climate is always changing. ~12,000 years ago oceans were 200 feet!! lower and a large portion of the world was under a mile of ice. This dra…
by StanislavPetrov · Oct 31, 2026
Right, but that means there must be some PCs that take > 8 seconds. Has... anyone ever seen one? In the past two decades? (I'm time bounding the question only because I know nas…
by Wowfunhappy · Oct 31, 2026
This is a good sentiment but wrong idea. The natural state of the world is everyone copies everything. This is hugely beneficial once something is discovered/created. Copyr…
by snapplebobapple · Oct 31, 2026
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A question is an utterance which serves as a request for information. Questions are sometimes distinguished from interrogatives, which are the grammatical forms, typically used to express them. Rhetorical questions, for instance, are interrogative in form but may not be considered bona fide questions, as they are not expected to be answered. Read more on Wikipedia