Then he must be apoplectic about the new bfloat16 format - only 7 bit mantissa - what the heck
It's totally possible that scientists in the future will laugh at our extremely wide 16-bit neural networks. Computation at the biological synapse level is considered to have an accuracy of 1 to 3 bits only - opinions differ.
The man lives still, not to be numbered among the dead:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kahan