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I have a professor who is interested in the Byzantine Generals Problem and worked with Lamport at Microsoft Research. She claimed that Leslie told her that no o
by ahendy 8y ago
I have a professor who is interested in the Byzantine Generals Problem and worked with Lamport at Microsoft Research. She claimed that Leslie told her that no one was interested in the problem/it didn't matter. Here[1] is a clever algorithm for leader election that she presented to us.
[1]https://youtu.be/UVzCZqNngaU?t=1364 https://youtu.be/UVzCZqNngaU?t=1364
- erikb 8y agoWhy does the following strategy not counter this approach? If you are the bad guy you sort all candidates according to their current trust, as defined by being part of the trusted group in previous voting rounds. And then you put your marker into the most trusted bucket that isn't yours. Thereby nobody should get ahead.