And then the financial types take advantage of it by practicing
arbitrage - using programmed trading to identify inconsistencies just a
few microseconds before the next guy.
Hmmm... maybe these are implementation of "race-and-repair" at a macro
level.
David Goehrig wrote:
There's a very simple concept that most of the world embraces in
everything from supply chain management, to personnel allocations, to
personal relationships.
We call it *slack*
<snip>
Which is a more realistic version of computation in a universe with
propagation delay (finite speed of light). But it also introduces a
concept similar to anyone familiar with ropes. You can't tie a knot
without some slack. (computation being an exercise in binary sequence
knot making). Finishing a computation is analogous to pulling the rope
taunt.
On Apr 13, 2012, at 5:53 AM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/6/ask-for-forgiveness-programming-or-how-well-program-1000-cor.html
Ask For Forgiveness Programming - Or How We'll Program 1000 Cores
<snip>
Race and Repair - Mitigating Wrong Results
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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