Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

@arraybolt3 Wow, that sounds pretty powerful.

The #OpenAI #Sora video-generating AI is being really annoying. I'm literally uploading screenshots of Smash Bros. and it is telling me ThIs conTEnt Can'T bE SHoWn fOr NoW. wE'rE STill devELOping hOW wE EVAluATE WhiCH ConTent ConFLictS wiTh ouR PoLICies

@CM30 Pretty good.

@dmgedgoods Is that by Shel Silverstein?

Looks like Notch is going to start work on a "Minecraft 2" https://www.ign.com/articles/notch-says-he-basically-announced-minecraft-2

#Minecraft #Minecraft2

@w84death Looks interesting!
The rightmost railroad looks pretty interesting ;)

@christopher Ah, my man, you've seen nothing.

Don't worry, the worlds are OK.

Note: the data I got was from 2022. I had said 2025. (Can't edit posts.)

Screenshot from the PDF.

It appears that #E4M3 (the one without multiple NaNs etc.) has less range, and less precision near 0, but smaller steps between numbers on average.
E4M3 also has NaN, just one type of NaN (nice).
I'm not thinking about #deepLearning here in particular, but I think I prefer E4M3 personally (for what it's worth).

Interesting development. Never thought float8's could have any use, and here we are in 2025 with the potential use of them.

#computing #programming

Mastodon word count for this post: 499. (1 off, man 😁)

For #programmers:
You are familiar with 64-bit floating point and 32-bit floating point, and may have heard about 16-bit floating point (present in some GPUs), but there is actually work on 8-BIT floating-point!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05433
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-arm-and-intel-publish-fp8-specification-for-standardization-as-an-interchange-format-for-ai/

There is the "E5M2" variant, a "truncated IEEE FP16 format" (nice if lacking FP8). Although, at the miniscule 8-bit level, you don't necessarily need multiple NaNs or need infinities, so there is the "E4M3" variant as well.

#IEEE754 #AI

Finished going through [almost all of] my #Minecraft worlds with my younger brother (also an adult). It was a nice and interesting trip down memory lane.

@mike @kev Classy! (If I have a right to make that judgement call at my age ;D)

@thedubster @briankrebs Not a place you wanted to make a typo 😅

@N.Morgan Note, this is Gandalf from the movies, not "actual" Gandalf from the books (Tolkien).
Profound quote though.

@RickiTarr Cow pattie fights and jumping out of things up high sounds like stuff my parents would have done :)

OK -- I don't know exactly what went wrong; but either way if it *was* a traditional manual ignition, the driver would have been able to turn the car off (they *were* getting instructions from the officer to stop the car, but it wasn't working).

Another 500-char-exactly post *fist-pump*