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		Animats on May 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language M... How do they get a LLM to do arithmetic?

JonChesterfield on May 25, 2024 | [–]

By not worrying whether it got the answer right. As long as some numbers go in and some numbers come out, vibes are good enough.

mewpmewp2 on May 25, 2024 | [–]

Not sure about them, but usually you would let LLM execute code to calculate it.

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