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Re:Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine... by williamdclt on Friday July 11, 2025 @04:49AM (#44529801)
Also uninformed but I can't see how that would be true, floating point rounding errors are entirely deterministic
Re:Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine... by saagarjha on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:27AM (#44531897)
Not if your scheduler causes accumulation in a different order.
Re:Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine... by williamdclt on Friday July 11, 2025 @11:29AM (#44533285)
Are you talking about a DAG of FP calculations, where parallel steps might finish in different order across different executions? That's getting out of my area of knowledge, but I'd believe it's possible
Re:Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine... by saagarjha on Saturday July 12, 2025 @08:02PM (#44546301)
Well a very simple example would be if you run a parallel reduce using atomics the result will depend on which workers acquire the accumulator first.