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Why does the deterministic nature matter? The interesting part is having oracle tests, not determinism. If someone is deterministic and wrong you use oracle tests to catch that.

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People keep saying "deterministic" when they mean "probabilistic". For illustration, a bloom filter is deterministic, but it's also probabilistic. LLMs are the same.

I assume he means deterministic here, meaning that the translation program always produces the same output for a given input.

But none of these properties are what let you perform a successful port. The port is going to rely entirely on oracle testing.

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