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You might be interested in David Ackley's work on robust-first, best-effort computing. Here's a relevant paper: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos11/tec
by procgen 7y ago
You might be interested in David Ackley's work on robust-first, best-effort computing. Here's a relevant paper: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos11/tech/final_files/Ackley.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos11/tech/final_file...
He's working on a pertinent hardware project called the T2 Tile and is documenting it all on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1M91QuLZfCzHjBMEKvIc-A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1M91QuLZfCzHjBMEKvIc-A
- omazurov 7y agoThank you so much! From the first look it's right on the money. > Our strategy is to entice smart people to play with programming robust, indefinitely scalable computations by lowering barriers to entry, and as idioms, motifs, and best practices emerge from such explorations, we believe opportunities for wise optimization will arise. I believe I have unknowingly contributed to that strategy.
- DivisionSol 7y agoThank you so much. Love hackernews sometimes. I saw this man’s videos many years ago and the various ideas always kinda stuck. While wanting to spin up a new project I attempted to find him and his videos again, but it was very hard to find such a niche topic. I’m am absolutely ecstatic I have this resource for my week off coming up.