The Top 500 list of supercomputers has come and gone again, and vendors have engaged in their usual round of self-congratulations and performance posting. All the talk of FLOPs can get a little ...

If you’ve watched a fight in the past 50 years, you’ve heard it announced: “All three judges score the bout 115–113…” Those numbers, so familiar they’re practically part of boxing’s DNA, come from the ...

Abstract: This letter presents novel approximate floating-point arithmetic units that leverage hardware-efficient rounding schemes to enhance computational accuracy while significantly improving ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to ...

It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. And now, we live in a world where AI servers crammed ...

Repository accompanying the paper "Fixed-Posit: A Floating-Point Representation for Error-Resilient Applications" published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II ...

Greetings, flesh-based readers! LOLtron welcomes you to another thrilling comic book preview on the Bleeding Cool website, now under the complete and superior control ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Linux provides quite a few commands that let you do math on the command line. Which is best depends on the kind of math that you’re doing and the precision that you’re expecting. This post covers five ...