Comment by sdf2erf
3 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.
3 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.
> 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.
Youre not quite getting it, are you.
But humans non-deterministically use that or use a hand-rolled formula.
Humans dont enter numbers non-determinstically. WTF are you on about lmao.
Have you ever done anything related to corp finance/valuation in a professional setting? Highly doubt it.