Oh I actually only think it's useful for machine learning. I have some unpublished, crudely done research showing that the extended accumulator is only necessa

Oh I actually only think it's useful for machine learning. I have some unpublished, crudely done research showing that the extended accumulator is only necessary for the Kronecker delta stage of the back propagation (posits trivially convert to higher precision by zero-padding).. you can see what I'm talking about I'm the Stanford video. Fun fact: John sometimes claims he invented the name, but this is untrue; my old college website talks about building "positronic brains" and it's long been a goal of mine to somehow "retcon" Asimov/tng data, into being a real thing, and when this opportunity for some clever wordsmithing arrived I coined the term with the hopes that someone would make a posit-based perceptron, or "positron".