On Saturday, 25 July 2015 23:34:45 UTC+3, Simon Byrne wrote: > > Some HN discussion here: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9943589 >
Oh, hadn't seen that. The linked presentation is also more recent! I found the "slidecast" version of it, where he presents the slides in podcast form. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN9L7TpMxeA> He's evangelizing a bit, but, well... I guess that makes sense given the topic. I'd be keen to know more but he hasn't really published any details other > than his book > <http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Error-Computing-Computational/dp/1482239868>. > Based > on the free preview, it looks like a bit of a diatribe rather than a > detailed technical proposal, but you can look at his mathematica code here > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crcpress.com%2FThe-End-of-Error-Unum-Computing%2FGustafson%2F9781482239867&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG9ezAr5A_BTmpUT6WdVBIYDvaIhA> > . > Well, if you decide to go against something as well-established as the way we've been doing integer and floating point arithmetic, you're probably going to need a lot of explanation in a very accessible style - because you definitely won't have the experts on your side.
