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ricardobeat
2y ago
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As someone else pointed out here, you can store 5 ternary values in 1 byte, 3^5 == 243.
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ein0p
2y ago
That’s still not 1 bit, and that would basically destroy whatever perf advantage you might hope to get if you want to keep the model in memory in that format rather than unpack it on load.
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