Revisiting @stewartbrand ‘s @longnow bets are fascinating and humbling to read. So much has been accomplished and so many grand challenges are still ahead.
This one will come due this year
longbets.org/853/
Surprising properties of low-precision floating point numbers are in the news again!
These numerical formats are ubiquitous in large NNs but new to most programmers.
So I worked with @klyap_ last week to put together this little visualizer: quant.exposed.
5 years after @sarahookr ‘s hardware lottery paper, it’s great to see a map of what the new and meaningful compute building blocks can look like.
arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489
