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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Well DUH ! AI People Finally Realize They Can Ditch Most
 Floating-Point for Big Ints
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:56:35 -0400
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186282ud0s3 wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 10/18/24 12:34 PM, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>> Perhaps you could explain why you keep talking about integer arithmetic
>> when the paper is about floating point arithmetic, then.
>
>    Umm ... because the idea of swapping FP for ints in
>    order to save lots of power was introduced ?
>
>    This issue is getting to be *poitical* now - the
>    ultra-greenies freaking about how much power the
>    'AI' computing centers require.

Heh, I freak out about sites I visit that make my computer rev up and
turn on the cooler: sites polluted with ads, sites that use your CPU
to mine bitcoin and who knows what else.

-- 
A putt that stops close enough to the cup to inspire such comments as
"you could blow it in" may be blown in.  This rule does not apply if
the ball is more than three inches from the hole, because no one wants
to make a travesty of the game.
		-- Donald A. Metz