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Chapter 4 of 7
Faster and worse
The vendor’s speed comes from stamping many tokens a pass. Larkspur wants to see what fewer passes do to a reply.
This chapter: What do you lose when each pass stamps more tokens?
About this chapter
You will learn
- How tokens a pass sets the number of passes
- Why guesses stamped together drift and repeat
- Why speed and quality are one dial
Words you’ll meet
- Tokens a pass
- How many blanks each pass stamps. Twice as many a pass, half the passes.
- Repeat
- A token the same as the one before it, like “the the”. Many repeats: the reply stutters.
- Drift
- How far a reply moves from the careful fill: its tokens that differ, slot for slot.
Step 1 of 3
Same phrase, same model. sets how many blanks each pass stamps, so how many passes a reply takes.
Predict first.