Solving the Untrustworthy General Problem in AI
Chapter 1

The art of the digital band-aid

Chapter 2

Keeping the lights on forever

Chapter 3

Not a single drop spilled

Chapter 4

Surviving the digital apocalypse

YOUR GOAL

Master of How computers learn to patch their own broken hearts

Ch 4 · Surviving the digital apocalypse
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007skaty Computer networks solve the Byzantine Generals Problem.

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007skaty Digital Apocalypse Survival

When the net goes quiet, our code is waiting in the ice

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We survive chaos by actively practicing how to fail.

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007skaty Multiple backup computers controlled the Space Shuttle.

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Solving the untrustworthy general problem

007skaty Protocols inspired by Leslie Lamport’s 1982 Byzantine Generals Problem keep decentralized AI networks running despite malicious computer failures.

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The computer with three brains

007skaty A technical vector illustration of a computer containing three color-coded digital brains.

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Surviving the digital apocalypse
BETA

007skaty Rebuild broken data pathways to discover how self-correcting AI survives a digital apocalypse.

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Fun Fact

Chaos Monkey: Netflix's server-killing tool is named after the idea of releasing a wild monkey in a server room to pull out cables.

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Gossip

Would you trust redundancy?

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Quiz

How many redundant computers were used in the Space Shuttle's fly-by-wire system to ensure fault tolerance?

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007skaty Engineers intentionally shut down active computer servers to test system resilience.

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Which microscopic animal inspired computer scientists at the University of York to design highly resilient software?

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007skaty Scientists design resilient computer software based on tardigrade survival skills

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What famous computer science problem, formulated by Leslie Lamport in 1982, describes reaching consensus in untrustworthy networks?

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What is the primary goal of chaos engineering in modern cloud computing?

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What is the core principle of Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) in fault-tolerant systems?

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In Byzantine fault-tolerant systems, what fraction of the network can fail or act maliciously without breaking the consensus?

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What is the name of the famous software tool released by Netflix in 2011 to test system resilience?

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What extreme survival state do tardigrades enter that inspires bio-inspired, fault-tolerant software?

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