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Computers waste a ton of time being perfect when good enough would work just as well. If we get better at mapping what mostly right means, we can make more soft
by mmaunder 1y ago
Computers waste a ton of time being perfect when good enough would work just as well. If we get better at mapping what mostly right means, we can make more software faster by trading exactness for speed. You see this kind of thing in quantized LLMs and jpeg compression.