Reposted by @ztatlock.bsky.socialFPTalks @fptalks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026FPTalks starting now! Zoom filling up, but you can watch the YouTube livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_A8...youtube.comFPTalks 2026YouTube video by FPTalks 001
ztatlock.bsky.social @ztatlock.bsky.social · 23/07/2026FPTalks turns seven this year 🎂 Started as a pandemic Zoom meetup, now a fantastic annual gathering, with six years of talks free on YouTube. 131 registered from 72 institutions and rising; fantastic community :) Com join us this year! Thu Aug 6, 8am PT, free: fptalks.org/talks/fptalk...fptalks.orgFPTalks 2026 — Thu Aug 6, free, onlineTwelve ten-minute talks on the leading edge of floating-point research: Demmel, Zimmermann, Carson, and more. 8am–noon Pacific, free on Zoom, all talks recorded. 000
Reposted by @ztatlock.bsky.socialFPTalks @fptalks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026📢 FPTalks 2026 Workshop — August 6, free and online! 12 talks on FP formats, ML numerics, math libraries, mixed-precision HPC, and more. Speakers from NVIDIA, INRIA, UC Berkeley, Graphcore, Cornell, Imperial, and others. Register: fptalks.org/talks/fptalks26.htmlfptalks.orgFPTalks 2026 012
Reposted by @ztatlock.bsky.socialFPTalks @fptalks.bsky.social · 28/05/2026📢 FPTalks Seminar, June 4 at 9am PT! Jeffrey Sarnoff (IEEE): "Fast floats for AI: the IEEE P3109 family"; the new standard for 3-bit to 16-bit FP formats designed for ML training and inference. fptalks.org/subscribe github.com/P3109/Public Also, Aug 6 workshop reg now open: fptalks.org/talksfptalks.orgRedirecting... 001
Reposted by @ztatlock.bsky.socialFPTalks @fptalks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026📢 FPTalk Seminar May 7 at 9am PT! Mantas Mikaitis (Leeds) on NVIDIA tensor cores: each GPU generation rounds differently, none follow IEEE 754. Mantas reverse-engineered bit-accurate models for V100 through B200. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2512.07004 🎤 fptalks.org/nominate fptalks.org/subscribe fptalks.orgfptalks.orgRedirecting... 001
ztatlock.bsky.social @ztatlock.bsky.social · 19/02/2026The EGRAPHS Workshop will hold its fifth meeting (!) at PLDI 2026 in Boulder, Colorado! The conference is June 15-19, and the workshop is likely on one of the first two days. Submission deadline is Fri, April 17, 2026. Super broad, fun, friendly venue!! pldi26.sigplan.org/home/egraphs... 000
ztatlock.bsky.social @ztatlock.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Dave Patterson’s op-ed is a great overview on how taxpayer-funded research built the backbone of modern tech: RISC, RAID, cloud, ... the list goes on. Encourage your representatives to fully fund the NSF and CISE! thehill.com/opinion/tech...thehill.comCongress wants to cut the smartest investment taxpayers ever madeVirtually every smartphone on the planet runs on a chip paid for by American taxpayers — a chip that I helped invent. Now Congress is moving to cut funding for the National Science Foundation that … 010
Reposted by @ztatlock.bsky.socialFPTalks @fptalks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025🚨 Heads up: FPTalks 2025 in two weeks! 🗓️ July 10 · Online · Free 🔬 Numerics talks on: Hardware, new FP formats, AI/ML, Verification, … 👥 Muller, Fitzgibbon, Johansson, Dotzel, Panchekha, and more! 📢 Register now: fpbench.org/talks/fptalk... 011
ztatlock.bsky.social @ztatlock.bsky.social · 20/05/2025If you’re planning to attend PLDI 2025 in Seoul, please book your room via the SIGPLAN room block link ASAP! www.marriott.com/event-reserv... Super stoked to see folks in a month :Dmarriott.comReservation-Link 032
Reposted by @ztatlock.bsky.socialYihong Zhang @yihozhang.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Want to catch up with SE and PL researchers across the Pacific Northwest? Have a cool project to share? The PNW PLSE 2025 is happening on May 7th, at the Uber Engineering Office in Seattle downtown, and you can sign up at pnwplse.org! 013
