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I'm trying to use 16 bit floats for matrix multiplication on x86-64. I found solutions for ARM and some NVIDIA GPUs but none for any X86-64 chips. Any pointers in this direction would be helpful.


Here is a little sample code I threw together, it shows the whole cycle, from conversion to half-floats to the conversion back to floats and performing a simple multiplication of the values:

https://godbolt.org/z/FYu_rK

Hope it helps.


Thank you.



Ravindran Kannan, one of the authors taught a course of the same name at CSA, IISc. The video lectures of the course are available here: http://drona.csa.iisc.ernet.in/~chiru/datascience/iisclectur...


I'd avoid that site- from our Cisco proxy:

"Based on your organization's access policies, this web site ( http://drona.csa.iisc.ernet.in/~chiru/datascience/iisclectur... ) has been blocked because it has been determined by Web Reputation Filters to be a security threat to your computer or the organization's network. This web site has been associated with malware/spyware."


Microsoft's Youtube Playlist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEBUWYxaqLQ&list=PLD7HFcN7LX...

I don't get what is MS doing here.


Where do I find the lecture 14? I was able to find only 7 lectures here - http://course.fast.ai/ .


I'm not sure if it's officially out yet but if you search YouTube, you will find it ;)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lTyqrrWVQ0


From http://data.worldbank.org/topic/agriculture-and-rural-develo... : For the 70 percent of the world's poor who live in rural areas, agriculture is the main source of income and employment.


It would make more sense to me to say:

"The purpose of the economy is to grow food sustainably."

Then it would it say:

"The purpose of sustainable agriculture is to support the economy"

The economy is a tool we use to manipulate our own behavior. The idea that it's a goal in and of itself is pretty confusing to me.


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