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Am 11.07.2025 um 05:17 schrieb Paul Rubin:
> dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> writes:
>> When someone begins with the line it rarely ends well:
>> "Twenty years ago anarchy threatened floating-point arithmetic."
>> One floating-point to rule them all.
> 
> This gives a good perspective on posits:
> 
> https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~demmel/ma221_Fall20/Dinechin_etal_2019.pdf
> 

Quintessence:

Overburdened or incompetent programmers  +
Posits are tricky beasts  ==>
Programmers _need_ AI co-workers to avoid pitfalls

Modern times....