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Re:Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf] by mehrdadn on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:08AM (#18776123)
Would the log-sum-exp trick have helped by any chance? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogSumExp
Re:Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf] by kbumsik on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:38AM (#18776210)
I didn't know this (I'm not in ML/Data Science) but that looks very helpful. I looked through his learning materials but I have never seen this one though.
Re:Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf] by mehrdadn on Friday December 28, 2018 @07:19AM (#18776346)
Yeah I only happened to know because of ancourse I took that taught some ML. I mentioned it because, later on, I even came across a situation where it would've been directly applicable, but for some reason the thought that it might solve the problem escaped me at that moment, so I asked and someone else had to remind me of that fact... so I feel it's probably not the easiest thing to recognize when it's happening.