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Stanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic
Stanford Online
John Gustafson presents posits, a proposed drop-in replacement for IEEE 754 floats that is simpler in hardware and more flexible in precision. The seminar includes a live demo and machine learning results.
Cited in floating-point threads as the main introduction to posits and unums as an alternative to IEEE floats.
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