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Alarmed-Bluejay-9459 t1_j0s1n55 wrote

This is unsurprising, most programmers don’t know how floating point works or how different algorithm implementations affect numerical stability.

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bildramer t1_j0stzmo wrote

Programmers, especially programmers of statistics software/packages, usually take numerical stability into account, and put recommendations in the documentation. E.g. Numpy and Scipy have log1p, exp1m, logsumexp and such for stability reasons. R mentions it often iirc. It's the researchers that aren't likely to know.

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[deleted] t1_j0skqjj wrote

Dude, what? Significands and unit round off are some of the first things you learn

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norbertus t1_j0trg2w wrote

We should just train a definitive AI on the subject and all of us just defer to that

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