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So new AI chip will be coming optimised for large scale non-byte bit only AI world ?

• thesz 3y ago
  Every CPU and GPU now has popcount [1] instruction. You can thank US three letter agencies for that [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_weight#Processor_support [2] https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/ Multiplication then is just bitwise AND and a popcount.
  • ttul 3y ago
    Makes you wonder what the agencies know that we don’t…
    • rapatel0 3y ago
      It's just cryptography and encoding. Popcount is useful for understanding entropy.