Float news and milestones

A write-up of a full shader debugging session to find out why my Voronoi Diagram shader was stuttering in one specific machine.

Your embeddings are float32. Somewhere in your app they get promoted to float64 and grow a tail of digits that mean nothing. You pay to store, ship, and parse every one of them.

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Compilers have a hard time optimizing floating point math. Rust has a new API to fix this.

Python has no method to show floating point numbers in binary, but it does have a method for showing them in hex. How to make the former out of the latter.

About 206 million SpaceX shares are now sold short, representing roughly 32% of the company's publicly tradable float, according to S3.

Convert a number into common GPU floating-point formats and learn how FP32, TF32, FP16, BF16, FP8, and FP4 work for AI and deep learning.

How Danish startup Float hit 99.3% compression on 1Hz smart meter data with Tiger Data, powering appliance-level energy analytics for hundreds of homes.

One economist says Musk's world-first level of extreme wealth highlights massive economic disparities and could have profound effects on society

SpaceX will go public this week in what's expected to be a historic IPO. It's small "free float" could prompt outsize volatility when trading begins.

A counterintuitive hot-path optimization from my Go work: swapping integer division (IDIVQ) for floating-point division (DIVSD) to divide integers faster.

crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects

silverorangedesigns and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.

A common pattern in modern software is to map a string key to a small array of floating-point numbers. Word embeddings, feature vectors, lookup tables for physical constants: all…

My Interpretation of Ancient Indian Philosophies

We tried dry float therapy at L.A.'s Quantum Wellness Spa and Pasadena's WellNest. The sessions, set in futuristic settings, promise stress reduction and relaxation.

The 400 companies on this year's list are growing strong despite bearing scars from the past three years

Float Financial, an expense management and corporate card startup focused on the Canadian market, has raised $48.5 million in a Series B funding round.

Float has kept up its torrid growth pace, topping $30-million in annual revenues and 4,000 customers across Canada, and avoided sweeping layoffs while keeping its headcount to ab…

GPUs support UNORM formats that represent a number inside 0,1 as an 8-bit unsigned integer. In exact arithmetic, the conversion to a floating-point number is straightforward: tak…

Lionsgate released a new clip from the upcoming Wattpad romance adaptation Float, starring Robbie Amell and Andrea Bang.