For a complex task, agreed. For a simple task, a failure rate of 10E-5 can happen. How often do people trying to eat put their forks in their eyes rather than in their mouths? And, to consider mechanical processes… If the cpu I’m running this browser on failed every 10E5 instructions, it would fail 10E4 times a second. It doesn’t.
Richard P. Feynmann, “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”
For a complex task, agreed. For a simple task, a failure rate of 10E-5 can happen. How often do people trying to eat put their forks in their eyes rather than in their mouths? And, to consider mechanical processes… If the cpu I’m running this browser on failed every 10E5 instructions, it would fail 10E4 times a second. It doesn’t.
wouldn’t the point be that its an amount of precision that is absolutely ridiculous given almost all situations?