Equation 7 · Ten Failure Modes of Deployed Language Models, from Silent Truncation to Version Drift
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Symbol tau_m
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and the marginal value of instrumentation is whatever it removes from . Written this way the ranking changes sharply from intuition, because varies over several orders of magnitude across the list while and vary by much less. Detection latency, not frequency or severity, is what dominates.
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