On 14-05-14 23:51, pablo pazos wrote:
> Just for fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_(mathematics) 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_%28mathematics%29>

Specially this section:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_%28mathematics%29#Computer_science

"awareness of pathological inputs is important as they can be exploited 
to mount a denial-of-service attack 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack> on a computer 
system"


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>
>     Maybe the problem is trying to validate against the archetype at
>     first and then validate the IM. I think it should be IM 1st and AM
>     2nd. But of course, I may overlooked some pathological case and
>     this might not work on 100% of the cases.
>
>
> I don't know why you call it pathological, as if it has to do with 
> humans, something with freaks who want to crash systems, it can surely 
> be the case.
> But more likely is a system which has a bug, and creates a faulty 
> dataset. A "pathological" dataset can be the result of a buggy system.
>
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