Stanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited in floating-point threads as the main introduction to posits and unums as an alternative to IEEE floats.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Stanford Online

Topic

computer arithmetic posits

Format

lecture

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

13

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• Have you seen "Stanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic"? [VIDEO]

• Well unums in particular (especially the new type 3 "posits" ones) are very interesting and practical for hardware implementation. John Gustafson, the creator of unums, gave the first talk on type 3 unums at Stanford earlier this month, and there are already multiple hardware implementation …

• I'm very surprised nobody has brought up John Gustafson's Unum work. His latest iteration is the posit, which he presented at Stanford earlier this month[0][1] EDIT: apologies to CalChris[2]. What I should have said is discussed Gustafson's Unum work. [0] [VIDEO] (relevant question at 1h22m37s) …