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by btilly 354 days ago
It's an analog system. Which means that accuracy is naturally limited.

However a single analog math operation requires the same energy as a single bit flip in a digital computer. And it takes a lot of bit flips to do a single floating point operation. So a digital calculation can be approximated with far less energy and hardware. And neural nets don't need digital precision to produce useful results.

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> neural nets don't need digital precision to produce useful results.

The point - as shown by the original implementation...