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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

That appears to be a guess at best. Kinda a hallucination.

https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/what-temp-does-wood-ignite.157829/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_drying

The practicalmachinist is just a random forum thread, but with various numbers scattered through it. The Wikipedia article doesn't even talk about ignition temperature, from what I can parse.


FYI 'default' LLMs are really bad at numbers, due to the way they sample and tokenize them. Don't trust them for that.

But if you must, use a big LLM instead of DDG's default. I suggest this, which has an excellent web research mode:

https://chat.z.ai/

Or this, at a low temperature, though its research mode isn't as good:

https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat

As a side note, GLM 4.7/4.6V run on peanuts, and Gemini runs on TPUs with some exotic attention mechanism, so it's probably less power usage than whatever DDG is using.