Equation 20 · Part 1 · Why Cost and Latency Belong in the Evaluation Score, Not a Footnote
Symbol lambda_l
What this part means
lambd is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
lambd is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
…way to rank agents, and it is what most procurement decisions ultimately have to do. But writing it out this explicitly makes the hidden step visible: the ranking that comes out depends entirely on and , numbers that are not properties of the agents at all. A call center with razor-thin per-ticket margins and a research lab doing one-off due-diligence work on a handful of contracts will set at wildly different values, and the two will reasonably reach opposite conclusions…
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