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by jeffbee 776 days ago
It's fine. We will simply run weather forecast in BF16 mode and hallucinate the weather.
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Introducing our next supercomputer, Peyote.
weather forecasting is actually moving to reduced precision. none of the input data is known to more than a few digits, and it's a chaotic system so the numerical error is usually dominated by the modeling and spacial discretization error
A black Sharpie marker is even cheaper...