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Related: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/making-floating-point-math-highly-efficient-for-ai-hardware/ https://ai.facebook.com/blog/making-floating-point-math-high

by kortex 4y ago

Related: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/making-floating-point-math-highly-efficient-for-ai-hardware/ https://ai.facebook.com/blog/making-floating-point-math-high... Which is meta's 8 bit data type originally called (8,1, alpha, beta, gamma). I think they realized that's a terrible name so I think they are calling it Deepfloat or something now.

tysam_and 4y ago
To be honest, the second name has connotations that are even more terrible than the original name. They need to seek help from a better naming team, please. It would help them, us, and the world, so much.