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> It's not possible to engineer an autonomous system that never fails, but it is possible to engineer one in such a way that it never fails to detect that it ha
by leetbulb 9y ago
> It's not possible to engineer an autonomous system that never fails, but it is possible to engineer one in such a way that it never fails to detect that it has failed.
Wouldn't the system doing the checking be considered an autonomous system...that could also fail?
- lisper 9y agoNo, because the monitoring system doesn't interact with an environment, so its job is much simpler. This is actually the reason that cognizant failure works.
- leetbulb 9y agoThank you for the concise answer. I was just about to ask if you have a blog, but found your website in your HN profile. I know what I am doing for the rest of the night :P PS: Funny that we've both written a double ratchet implementation in JS :)