overengineered?
you do realise that fixed point integer math done with CPUs is how all games did shit before GPUs, before FPUs
how would you distribute a file. let me see. oh yes! HTTP!
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all it is, is this: deterministic, repeatable, and content verifiable association with an original, to it's scaled down version, that can be logged as a binding between one hash (original) and another hash.
seriously, how under-utilized is your brain?
we aren't talking about distributing GGUF files to share an LLM around lol