I remember going to an AI meetup where the guy presenting was proposing a totally new computing architecture.
I quickly suspected he wasn't very competent about how computers worked, and tried to probe a bit. I suspected he was mentally ill but could "talk the talk" enough to convince people his ideas had merit.
But this: A more efficient way of handling floating-point numbers, is probably something worthwhile. I wonder how hard it will be to recompile existing software to take advantage of posits?
Well, art is art. It doesn't matter who's making it, what their background is, or if they follow preconceived rules.
That doesn't apply to engineering because it either works or it doesn't. The presenter misunderstood basic concepts of information. If you don't understand those, you can't design a working computer.
I quickly suspected he wasn't very competent about how computers worked, and tried to probe a bit. I suspected he was mentally ill but could "talk the talk" enough to convince people his ideas had merit.
But this: A more efficient way of handling floating-point numbers, is probably something worthwhile. I wonder how hard it will be to recompile existing software to take advantage of posits?