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Hmm, can someone educate me here? Why don't bit flips ever seem to impact the results of calculations in settings like big-data analytics on AWS? Is it a diffe

Hmm, can someone educate me here? Why don't bit flips ever seem to impact the results of calculations in settings like big-data analytics on AWS? Is it a difference between server hardware managed by knowledgeable people and random hardware thrown together by home PC builders?

zadikian 7mo ago
Servers and pro workstations normally have ECC RAM.
OkGoDoIt 7mo ago
Presumably professional hardware uses ECC memory, which automatically corrects these kinds of errors.
huhhuh 7mo ago
In Belgium elections, a party received 4096 unaccounted votes likely due to a bit flip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Belgium#Reported_problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Belgium#R....
matja 7mo ago
You can only detect what you measure. Are these big-data analytics processes running multiple times to detect differences?