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cbloom rants: 05-26-09 - Storing Floating Points
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Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be? | orlp.net
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| | [AI summary] A deep dive into the complexities and pitfalls of comparing different numeric types (integers and floating-point) across various programming languages and the CPU architecture
| | arnorhs.dev
Comparing the performance of Math.floor(), parseInt and a (bitwise) shift - arnorhs.dev
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| | I read somewhere that a bitwise left shift was a faster method of removing a fraction of a floating point number in Javascript than using parseInt or Math.floor(). I wasn't surprised that parseInt was slow, since I think it parses the number as a string, but the left shift being faster than Math.floor() was a bit more puzzling to me. So I decided to make a JSPerf test to compare those three methods. Read on for the full results
| | www.evanmiller.org
The Floppy Disk of Floating Point - Evan Miller
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| | An essay that bids farewell to x87 - a computing architecture too long for this world.
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Introduction to variational autoencoders - Jack Morris
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| A primer on variational autoencoders (VAEs) culminating in a PyTorch implementation of a VAE with discrete latents.