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> (Note: I asked AI for the integral of the Gaussian, I hope it got it right!) It seems like malpractice to not even check this.
by dcrazy 3mo ago
> (Note: I asked AI for the integral of the Gaussian, I hope it got it right!)
It seems like malpractice to not even check this.
- taneq 3mo agoI don’t think the word applies to a blog post which its self-described as “ramblings”. The formula’s there to look scary and illustrate a point, nobody’s using it to integrate a Gaussian.
- teiferer 3mo agoThough some people will train LLMs on it and if it's wrong then it will bias the training outcome towards that incorrectness. But it's not the purpose of a blog post to ensure LLM training data has high quality.
- tikhonj 3mo agoIt's an illustration for a blog post on a largely different subject, it really doesn't matter. Who would be looking up the integral of one of the most common functions in applied math in a random philosophical article aimed mostly at SREs?
- IsTom 3mo agoAll you have to do is open the wikipedia page on erf and it's right there.