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Trenton Bricken
Personal blog · trentonbricken.comaidata
Trenton Bricken's personal blog at trentonbricken.com covers ai and data. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Tail Free Sampling (2019)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Trenton Bricken's blog for his tail-free sampling post, a proposed alternative to top_p and top_k for sampling from LLMs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Tail Free Sampling (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-26
What Hacker News says?
To think that Trenton invented a far better LLM sampler than top_p/top_k back in 2019 (tail free sampling - https://www.trentonbricken.com/Tail-Free-Sampling/ ) and it and pretty much all other better samplers are still not being used in production in 2025. Trenton please if you are listening give us an explanation for this!
Comment linking /Tail-Free-Sampling/
on “How Does Claude 4 Think? – Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken”Submitted Tail Free Sampling (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Dating as a story · 2 points
HN discussion