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Exactly. I'm amazed at how blithely people dismiss the impact of bit errors. A random bitflip could break anything! That's terrifying. Even if it's just in a f
by iainmerrick 9y ago
Exactly. I'm amazed at how blithely people dismiss the impact of bit errors. A random bitflip could break anything! That's terrifying.
Even if it's just in a float, it looks like a single bitflip could change FLOAT_MAX to NaN. That could hurt.
- cjbillington 9y agoYeah but you'll notice, and resume the simulation from a previous checkpoint or something. The risk is with errors that you don't notice, but that nonetheless change the outcome in a meaningful way. That seems to me to actually be a pretty small space of situations.