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Equation 20 · Part 1 · Why Cost and Latency Belong in the Evaluation Score, Not a Footnote

Symbol lambda_l

λl\lambda_l
λl\lambda_l

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…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 λc\lambda_c and λl\lambda_l , 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 λc\lambda_c at wildly different values, and the two will reasonably reach opposite conclusions…

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