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Legend2440 ◴[28 Sep 25 18:04 UTC] No.45406467[source]▶

Article doesn’t mention this, but I’d consider neural networks a form of branchless programming. It’s all a bunch of multiply and threshold operations.

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abyesilyurt ◴[28 Sep 25 18:09 UTC] No.45406503[source]▶

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Thresholding requires branching no?

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1. WJW ◴[28 Sep 25 18:32 UTC] No.45406688[source]▶

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No, you can do that without branching. See https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/pipelining/branchless/#predi... for example.

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