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One outlier, 23 zeros: a course module on the OCP MX block

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PR: #1445

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A bilingual post on the t27 course's new MX module: how one outlier in a block of 32 flushes small weights to zero format by format, the one-test mutant that proves the spec checks itself, and a comparison with twelve other places that teach MX.

Merged PR. Checks reported by the author: 8 passed; this generator did not rerun them.

The problem

The t27 course grew to 33 lessons, and its new eleventh module teaches the shared-scale number formats that AI chips use for weights.

How it works

An OCP MX block holds 32 small elements and one E8M0 scale byte, which is a pure power of two with bias 127 and no mantissa.

One outlier of 3.3 sets the scale for the whole block, so MXFP4 E2M1 flushes 23 of the 30 non-zero small weights to exactly zero.

The same block loses 4 weights in MXFP6 E2M3 and 2 in MXINT8, and none at all in MXFP6 E3M2 or MXFP8 E4M3.

Changing the E5M2 exponent bias from 15 to 16 fails exactly one of the 49 tests, so the spec notices a one-digit mistake in itself.

Twelve other resources that teach MX were compared in ten rows as their pages read on 6 October 2026, and none of them counts the zeros element by element.

The post lists what it does not show: one chosen block, no model, no accuracy number, and a spec that is merged into t27 but not yet on the site.

See it run

A terminal recording of the commands is published at https://t27\.ai/term/t27c\-ocp\-mx/ (prompt and typing staged, every printed byte real).

What changed

• apps/website/src/data/blog/bodies/one-outlier-twenty-three-zeros.ts: EN body and RU ruBody, 27 blocks each, with the t27c-ocp-mx terminal recording and two tables
• apps/website/src/data/blog/index.ts: post metadata first in postsIndex, 27 receipts with their state, 8 open questions in English and 8 in Russian
• apps/website/src/data/blog/posts.ts: the import and the map entry for the new body

How we checked

What this does not show

• The numbers come from one block of 31 small weights and one outlier, chosen to show the flush; there is no model and no accuracy measurement
• ocp_mx.t27 is merged into t27 (feat(numeric): ocp_mx.t27 -- OCP MX v1.0 and OFP8 elements, E8M0 scale, the block conversion t27#6828, 322cc77d7) but not yet on the site, because the world scan that vendors t27 specs has been red since 2026-10-03; the ocp_mx recording was made on the byte-identical branch commit 1a3786657
• The competitor comparison is twelve resources in ten rows as their pages read on 6 October 2026, not a complete survey
• The post has no cover image yet

How this post was made

Merged PR; unpublished blog draft. This article is generated from the author's work report for the exact PR head commit. Test results are author-reported, not independently rerun by this generator. Merge status is not proof of deployment or runtime correctness.

Receipts

• gHashTag/trinity PR #1445
• Reported head commit 360a18d0d3f5
• Merge commit f56e16dd7e1a
• Terminal recording

Topic tags

#t27 #OCPMX #blog #NumberFormats