FP16 Has Almost No Precision

car salesman: *slaps roof of FP16* this bad boy can fit almost no fuckin precision in it sign (15 bit) exponent (5 bit) fraction (10 bit) 10 15

A suited car salesman gestures toward a diagram of the FP16 floating-point format while another man listens. The joke treats the limited 10-bit fraction field like a tiny amount of car space, parodying the “slaps roof” car-salesman pitch to mock FP16’s low precision. EN: A suited car salesman gestures toward a diagram of the FP16 floating-point format while another man listens. The joke treats the limited 10-bit fraction field like a tiny amount of car space, parodying the “slaps roof” car-salesman pitch to mock FP16’s low precision.

• @profunctor_io / 1018 2018-07-04