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Why, you're no better than an 8-bit hustler: IBM punts paper on time-saving DNN-training trick

Notas Badoff

There's $<x> in those <y>

A lot of early geophysical data tapes used very weird floating point formats, and for some it was as little as 6 or 8 bits of 'precision' with wonky small exponents affixed.

It was good enough precision to find last century's oil. This century they want to find your face in a crowd. Congratulations, you're resources.

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