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jacquesm 16 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

I can totally see how ternary would work from a physical implementation perspective but I have a really hard time visualizing anything using base-e, can you explain how such a thing would work in practice?

jeffbee 16 days ago [–]

No it's impossible. But it would be optimal!

jacquesm 16 days ago | [–]

Ah, the spherical cow of number bases :) Thanks for the response, that saved me a sleepless night.

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