Re: Well DUH ! AI People Finally Realize They Can Ditch Most Floating-Point for Big Ints

On 15/10/2024 07:43, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

The question is how EXACT the precision HAS to be for
   most "AI" uses. Might be safe to throw away a few
   decimal points at the bottom.

My thesis is that *in some applications*, more low quality calculations bets a fewer high quality ones anyway.
I wasn't thinkingof AI, as much as modelling complex turbulent flow in aero and hydrodynamics or weather forecasting
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