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		joquarky 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation track... Temperature can't be literally zero, or it creates a divide by zero error. When people say zero, it is shorthand for “as deterministic as this system allows”, but it's still not completely deterministic.

forgotTheLast 3 months ago [–]

Zero temp just uses argmax, which is what softmax approaches if you take the limit of T to zero anyway. So it could very well be deterministic.

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