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No, it wasn't about storage. It was really during calculations, you can't prevent the noise from affecting the results, from a fundamental level.
by lbourdages 3y ago
No, it wasn't about storage. It was really during calculations, you can't prevent the noise from affecting the results, from a fundamental level.
- fooker 3y agoFor any complicated calculation, you need to store and propagate multiple intermediate results. This is what goes wrong. error(x + y) > error(x) + error(y)
- imtringued 3y agoFloating point calculation is "noisy" and yet there are models that use smaller and smaller floating point numbers without losing much accuracy.
- marcosdumay 3y agoOh, ok. You can't. I'm not sure you can find a citation though, it's like searching for a source that the sky is blue. Keep in mind that digital calculations have noise too. The digitization noise behaves in a completely different way, but any single computer has a finite precision whatever the technology behind it. Infinite precision doesn't exist on the real world.