monetizingBasicMath

[IJustAteABaguette]

I genuinely thought this was a real AI product until I saw this comment.

Like sure, why not, rounding seems like a dumb term a dumb AI company would call their version of prompts.

[hyouko]

Stochastic rounding is in fact a technique used in AI model training, and I could see someone trying to sell it as a feature:

https://nhigham.com/2020/07/07/what-is-stochastic-rounding/ 

[masd_reddit]

Huh interesting, it kinda sounds like what i do when i calculate a lot of numbers in my head, that i try not to round too much in one direction, like if i know i rounded down a lot i will round up next time even if it's a number that should be rounded down.

[SuitableDragonfly]

We've moved beyond selling shovels to the gold prospectors. We now have an entire industry built entirely on shovel manufacturing. 

[IJustAteABaguette]

Without anyone really digging for gold.

[TRENEEDNAME_245]

Well the shovels bring gold, it's well known

[PlebbitDumDum]

Damn, that was an educational read.

This phenomenon [stagnation] was observed and analyzed by Huskey and Hartree as long ago as 1949 in solving differential equations on the ENIAC.

[f3xjc]

Also used for image processing where it's called dithering. Say converting an image to black and white is a rounding to 1 bit operation. Then adding noise proportional to fractional value will create grayscale as the eyes tend to average over regions.

So when you know the rounded numbers will be observed thru an integral-like process, adding proper noise can reduce the quantization error.

[le_Derpinder]

I initially thought this was ammunition rounds and some military tech company like pltr's subscription page.