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		shultays on Jan 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Supporting half-precision floats is really annoyin... 7 bit only for mantissa?

why_only_15 on Jan 16, 2023 [–]

Yes. The idea is that in machine learning you care more about dynamic range and being able to represent many numbers than you care about the precise number.

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