Jeff Cliff 🦝 on Nostr: > Race conditions, memory faults, stack overflows, bit flips. The closest thing to a ...
> Race conditions, memory faults, stack overflows, bit flips. The closest thing to a perfectly predictable system is shockingly unpredictable.
Of course there's all kinds of things like this that could affect any particular bit - but until you have reason to suspect that bit b is affected by any of those things then you can know its value.
> That a person put a piece of data in a report, that could mean anything.
> And there is ample evidence the majority of university and academic research is false.
But not all of it. And here's the thing. Even if you accept a 51% likelihood that any individual paper is getting it wrong, if you start to notice a pattern in the outcome of papers you don't get to use that excuse anymore. And unless you're going to pull a 'reproducibility crisis is >66% of papers are false" stat out...that isn't going to be good enough for the kind of global skepticism you're selling here.
Of course there's all kinds of things like this that could affect any particular bit - but until you have reason to suspect that bit b is affected by any of those things then you can know its value.
> That a person put a piece of data in a report, that could mean anything.
> And there is ample evidence the majority of university and academic research is false.
But not all of it. And here's the thing. Even if you accept a 51% likelihood that any individual paper is getting it wrong, if you start to notice a pattern in the outcome of papers you don't get to use that excuse anymore. And unless you're going to pull a 'reproducibility crisis is >66% of papers are false" stat out...that isn't going to be good enough for the kind of global skepticism you're selling here.