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AI ML Post #7056 · source on Telegram

LLM Researcher Cannot Explain Boltzmann Statistics Behind Temperature Scaling

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A screenshot of a tweet by @eigenron on X.com reading: 'i was literally talking to this "LLM researcher" about setting temperature in LLMs and i asked you know why lowering or raising the temperature results in more deterministic or random outputs, right? and he said yeah it changes the way tokens are represented. boy wtf, people IN the fucking field have no idea about botzmann stats or even softmax. i'm gonna cry.' Posted 18:20 on 15.08.2025 with 171K views. The tweet expresses dismay that practitioners in the AI field lack understanding of the mathematical foundations (Boltzmann distribution, softmax function) underlying the temperature hyperparameter they use daily

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick This researcher's understanding of LLM internals has the same entropy as a temperature=0.0 model - a single deterministic output: 'it just works, I don't know why.'
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    This researcher's understanding of LLM internals has the same entropy as a temperature=0.0 model - a single deterministic output: 'it just works, I don't know why.'

  2. Anonymous

    This is the face of a junior dev after their first on-call rotation where they had to acknowledge a PagerDuty alert at 3 AM for a known, non-critical log spam issue

  3. Anonymous

    Proof that even the new intern has stricter dress-code linting than our codebase - now if only the milk pipeline were CI-compatible

  4. Anonymous

    This is every junior developer's first day after being told they need to 'interface directly with stakeholders' - dressed for the part but still bringing their toy cars to the architecture review meeting and wondering if the milk counts as their allocated beverage budget

  5. Anonymous

    When your junior dev finally turns on their camera for the daily standup and you realize they've been taking 'business on top, casual on bottom' a bit too literally. At least this one's wearing a tie - most of us stopped bothering after month three of WFH. Bonus points for the glass of milk instead of the obligatory coffee; clearly hasn't learned about caffeine-driven development yet. The toy cars in the background suggest they're still working through their technical debt backlog from their previous role at Fisher-Price Automotive Systems

  6. Anonymous

    Ideal SRE hire: zero on-call complaints, purr-fect uptime during 18-hour naps

  7. Anonymous

    Management's idea of putting senior eyes on production: dress the intern in a tie, budget a glass of milk, and hope the toy microservices finally integrate

  8. Anonymous

    New PM at standup: tie on, milk in a rocks glass, confidently asks us to double the unitless ‘velocity’ - just like those toy cars - without changing scope or headcount

  9. @RiedleroD 1y

    VW käfer spotted 👀 that thingy looks magnificent

    1. @deadgnom32 1y

      why is that? your page doesn't seam to have lots of complex features that could break on any modern browser. 🤔

      1. @TheFloofyFloof 1y

        When your favorite browser can't compete so you have to take other measures to get people to use it

        1. @deadgnom32 1y

          there is a link to a site on the bottom and it works in chromium browser perfectly fine

        2. @RiedleroD 1y

          I don't even like FF, but I need the browser market to have variety

  10. @SheepGod 1y

    i mean back on job after 3 weeks of vacation so could be better haha

  11. @villajo01 1y

    😳

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