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I worked in online advertising and pushed infinite loops that froze browsers to millions of unsuspecting victims. On another occasion I had a division operatio
by etaioinshrdlu 5y ago
I worked in online advertising and pushed infinite loops that froze browsers to millions of unsuspecting victims.
On another occasion I had a division operation happen on integers instead of floats, and the code was running on some hardware that steered antennas for radios on airplanes. Much time was spent by pilots flying in circles over LA while I gathered data and found the "oops". It was fixed by adding a period to an int literal.
On another occasion my machine learning demo API failed due to heavy load, but only when India's prime minister was looking at it.
- bostik 5y ago> On another occasion my machine learning demo API failed due to heavy load, but only when India's prime minister was looking at it. Okay, I'll bite. You can't just drop a war story headline like that and walk off. Please expand.
- etaioinshrdlu 5y agoWe deployed some machine learning demos via API and they got used in some exhibits for some powers-that-be. But we ran it in the cloud on shared infrastructure like fools, and the code was pretty bad, so it failed due to heavy load while Modi was looking at it. There was an outpouring of anger afterward. Here is Modi staring at one loading spinner. https://imgur.com/a/kLklVZV https://imgur.com/a/kLklVZV
- samus 5y ago> On another occasion my machine learning demo API failed due to heavy load, but only when India's prime minister was looking at it. This really sounds like something that can only happen when unpredictable machine learning models are involved^^