https://www.baszerr.eu/ Wed, 06 May 2026 09:35:03 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 https://www.baszerr.eu/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg https://www.baszerr.eu/ https://www.baszerr.eu/doku.php?id=blog:2012:04:29:1 <h1 class="sectionedit1" id="error_correction">2012.04.29 - error correction</h1> <div class="level1"> <p> <a href="https://www.baszerr.eu/lib/exe/detail.php?id=blog%3A2012%3A04%3A29%3A1&amp;media=blog:2012:04:29:matrix_failure.jpg" class="media" title="blog:2012:04:29:matrix_failure.jpg"><img src="https://www.baszerr.eu/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=200&amp;tok=f1b2da&amp;media=blog:2012:04:29:matrix_failure.jpg" class="mediaright" align="right" loading="lazy" title="matrix failure" alt="matrix failure" width="200" /></a> errors are regular events – they are the norm, not the odds. they do happen and happen often (at scale). some people think that their code is error-free (sometimes such an opinion is disguised as “i&#039;ve never seen an error in <em>whateverthesystemsnameis</em>”). they are obviously wrong, but the point is, that even if they weren&#039;t, they&#039;d still need perform checks on their data. why? because an error can randomly appear. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/soft error" class="interwiki iw_wp" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/soft error">soft errors</a> are the reality now. but this is not over… i recommend you an excellent <a href="http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/02/26/ObservationsOnErrorsCorrectionsTrustOfDependentSystems.aspx" class="urlextern" title="http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2012/02/26/ObservationsOnErrorsCorrectionsTrustOfDependentSystems.aspx" rel="ugc nofollow">article on errors and a need for detection of them</a>. it is a weekend – a nice time to enjoy the knowledge. :) </p> </div> anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:09:17 +0000