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when you make a program that has a random seed, many LLMs choose 42 as the seed value rather than zero. A nice nod to Hitchhikers’
by tezza 6mo ago
when you make a program that has a random seed, many LLMs choose
42
as the seed value rather than zero. A nice nod to Hitchhikers’
- electroglyph 6mo agoit's also a very common "favorite number" for them
- czhu12 6mo agoProbably because that’s what programmers do, present in the LLM training data? I certainly remember setting a 42 seed in some of my projects
- groutlloyd 6mo agoit's the favorite because it's 6*7, that's why