| ▲ | sdf2erf 2 hours ago | |
"The non-deterministic part is turning human instructions ("calculate the NPV over 10 years for X given Y") into Excel." erm theres an NPV function built in excel. | ||
| ▲ | nl an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
> erm theres an NPV function built in excel. Exactly! The LLM just needs to make sure it uses it appropriately. Doing that bit is the non-deterministic part, but the NPV calculation itself is completely deterministic. | ||
| ▲ | hugh-avherald an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
But humans non-deterministically use that or use a hand-rolled formula. | ||