Re: Seeking Endorsement: Boost.int128

Peter Taraba via Boost <[email protected]>
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imagine you are president of USA and you have to make decision. knowing answer is 50.000001% (decision is yes) is better than 50% (no clue if decision is yes or no).

Best,

Peter

Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 5:26 PM

From: "Andrey Semashev via Boost" <[email protected]>

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Cc: "Andrey Semashev" <[email protected]>

Subject: [boost] Re: Seeking Endorsement: Boost.int128

On 30 Apr 2026 02:11, Peter Taraba via Boost wrote:

> Use? Imagine you have really hard decision and your models tell you 50%

> result... in that case you need higher precision so you know if you

> should do it or not. Some decisions are really hard...

Would it make a difference if a more precise model gave a 50.1% vs.

49.9% outcome? Not saying higher precision is not useful, just that the

application in AI models seems questionable. My understanding is that

having more parameters is generally more preferable to

precision/quantization in terms of the model quality.

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