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eln1 commented on Lossless LLM compression for efficient GPU inference via dynamic-length float   arxiv.org/abs/2504.11651... · Posted by u/CharlesW
zorgmonkey · a year ago
I don't know of any great write-ups unfortunately, but the rANS you're looking for is range asymmetric numeral systems.
eln1 · a year ago
There are lots of materials about ANS, e.g. gathered here: https://encode.su/threads/2078-List-of-Asymmetric-Numeral-Sy...
eln1 commented on Something is wrong in the state of QED - history of physics   arxiv.org/abs/2110.02078... · Posted by u/eln1
nabla9 · 4 years ago
Crank science is easy to separate from non-mainstream approaches. Crank science is "everybody is selling nobody is buying" business. There are no physicists inside *or* outside mainstream who buy Consa's crank theories.

(I explained why the narrative is not valid in another comment).

eln1 · 4 years ago
One can get grants in physics nearly only if being mainstream ...

Consa brings concrete arguments regarding g-factor, I still haven't seen any concrete explanation, only saying that it is fringe science because of criticism of mainstream ... but he quotes mainstream papers.

eln1 commented on Something is wrong in the state of QED - history of physics   arxiv.org/abs/2110.02078... · Posted by u/eln1
JPLeRouzic · 4 years ago
Please could you provide some explanations why it is a crank paper?
eln1 · 4 years ago
Mainstream censors non-mainstream, hence for half a century we are staying in place e.g. quantum gravity, there are appearing new problems ...

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-standard-particle-physics-brok...

The paper claims there are problems already with g-factor, could anybody explain why its objections are not valid?

eln1 commented on Something is wrong in the state of QED - history of physics   arxiv.org/abs/2110.02078... · Posted by u/eln1
spekcular · 4 years ago
This is an outdated, pre-1970s view of renomralization. Thanks to work of Wilson (1982 Nobel prize) and others on the renormalization group, we have a much better understanding.

One good article that explains this shift (in the context of a debate in the philosophy of physics) is here: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8890/.

eln1 · 4 years ago
Thanks, I will read, but generally beside e.g. the gravity problem, with increased accuracy there appear inaccuracies all over the standard model, so maybe it is worth revisiting QED? Are you saying the g-factor inaccuracies are not a problem?

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-standard-particle-physics-brok...

eln1 commented on Something is wrong in the state of QED - history of physics   arxiv.org/abs/2110.02078... · Posted by u/eln1
outsomnia · 4 years ago
The PDF is interesting and comprehensible to mortals, has historical quotes from Feynman, Dirac etc agreeing with its thesis.
eln1 · 4 years ago
Indeed, e.g. of Dirac:

    “I must say that I am very dissatisfied with the situation because this so-called ’good theory’ does involve neglecting infinities which appear in its equations, ignoring them in an arbitrary way. This is just not sensible mathematics. Sensible mathematics involves disregarding a quantity when it is small – not neglecting it just because it is infinitely great and you do not want it!. ”
and Feynman:

    "The shell game that we play is technically called ’renormalization’. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It’s surprising that the theory still hasn’t been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.”

u/eln1

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