Quantized Float Exposed
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The post introduces a new visualizer for quantized floating-point numbers, inspired by a similar tool for floating-point numbers, and sparks a discussion on related tools and specifications.
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charles_irlAuthor
2 months ago
Inspired by https://float.exposed, which was on the front page recently, I put together this visualizer for lower precision/quantized floating point numbers -- specifically, all of the formats in the Open Compute Project's Microscaling Formats Spec (https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-microscaling-forma...).
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