One bit or one trit? I am confused!
For something more practical, you can pack five three-state values within a byte because 3^5 = 243, which is smaller than 256. To unpack, you divide and modulo by 3 five separate times. This encodes data in bytes at 1.6 bits per symbol.
But the packing of 5 symbols into a byte was not done here. Instead, they packed 4 symbols into a byte to reduce computational complexity (no unpacking needed)
>packed 4 symbols into a byte
microslop, typical bunch of two-bit frauds!
So it's not a inference framework for 1-bit models (two states per parameter) but for 1.58 bit models (three states per parameter). Annoying that they try to mix up the two.
I had some AI courses in uni in early 2010s and we were the last cohort that had Prolog and Logic Based AI.
Most interesting project was the final semester where we competed in teams to create the best team of bots for UE3 CTF.