There's an existing standardized 16-bit float with 10 bits mantissa¹, that graphics people are fond of. This one is for machine learning [drink]. ¹ https://en.

There's an existing standardized 16-bit float with 10 bits mantissa¹, that graphics people are fond of. This one is for machine learning [drink]. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_...