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Modal Adds Interactive Explorer For Low-Precision Float Formats

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OPCharles 🎉 Frye#863Charles 🎉 Frye@CHARLES_IRL

each number gets its own URL, so you can share your favorite numbers with your fellow quant fp enjoyers here's one of mine: 0x8 in fp4. fp4 has only 16 values, and one of them is used to represent -0, a number my algebra teacher told me did not exist https://modal.com/llm-almanac/quant-formats/0x8

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REPLYCharles 🎉 Frye#863Charles 🎉 Frye@CHARLES_IRL

(which is fair, floating point "numbers" don't have any structure an algebraist would respect)

Charles 🎉 FryeCharles 🎉 Frye@charles_irl

each number gets its own URL, so you can share your favorite numbers with your fellow quant fp enjoyers here's one of mine: 0x8 in fp4. fp4 has only 16 values, and one of them is used to represent -0, a number my algebra teacher told me did not exist https://modal.com/llm-almanac/quant-formats/0x8

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