If this is the case, would it be possible and/or useful to trace the “dependency tree”, determine what instrument lay most precarious atop the mound of interconnected dependencies, and determine a good bet on its likelihood of failure as compared to that of less dependent instruments? [1]
...Or did I just describe something that has already been done or dismissed/invalidated/etc? It gives me the same vague suspicion I got as a fresh undergrad having just independently theorized file compression for the umpteenth time (many students having learned some basics of information theory do this if they don’t already know how compression works.)
If this is the case, would it be possible and/or useful to trace the “dependency tree”, determine what instrument lay most precarious atop the mound of interconnected dependencies, and determine a good bet on its likelihood of failure as compared to that of less dependent instruments? [1]
...Or did I just describe something that has already been done or dismissed/invalidated/etc? It gives me the same vague suspicion I got as a fresh undergrad having just independently theorized file compression for the umpteenth time (many students having learned some basics of information theory do this if they don’t already know how compression works.)