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This is a pretty big claim which seems to imply this is much more common than expected, but there's no real information here and the numbers don't even stack up
by CamouflagedKiwi 8mo ago
This is a pretty big claim which seems to imply this is much more common than expected, but there's no real information here and the numbers don't even stack up:
> That's one crash every twenty potentially caused by bad/flaky memory, it's huge! And because it's a conservative heuristic we're underestimating the real number, it's probably going to be at least twice as much.
So the data actually only supports 5% being caused by bitflips, then there's a magic multiple of 2? Come on. Let alone this conservative heuristic that is never explained - what is it doing that makes him so certain that it can never be wrong, and yet also detects these at this rate?