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		ants_everywhere 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid Yes we've all heard the AIs are not deterministic trope ad nauseam , but that's unrelated to my point. MCMC is also not deterministic, and yet people learn how to use it well. Being non-deterministic is kind of the whole point of anything based on statistics. It's deterministic conditioned on the seed.

jdiff 5 months ago [–]

MCMC is reliably predictable. I believe I made it clear in my last comment that that was the goal, not actual run-to-run determinism which is achievable.

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