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The other observation is that the precision will almost always be higher in the accumulation step than in the multiplication step. This is specific to AI chips. You're multiplying low-precision numbers, and then when you accumulate, errors accumulate quickly, so you need more precision there.

Reiner Pope
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The English language hates the slightest whiff of dishonesty, even levels so small you wouldn't naturally notice them yourself. It punishes you by making your writing worse.

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The Gregorian Calendar Edition

By the 1500s, the incredibly slight discrepancy between the actual length of the solar year (365.2422 days) and the average length of the Julian calendar year (365.25 days) had created some problems.

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