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Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book

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From: Freddy
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 23:31
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Huge wrote:

> On 2018-01-27, Freddy <freddy1X@indyX.netX> wrote:
>> Peter Flass wrote:
>>
>>> <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 3:54:14 PM UTC-5, Peter Flass wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> The modern mindset is to accept that the failure will occur despite
>>>>>> preventive maintenance and instead work on making the failure
>>>>>> convenient. You can prevent failure by throwing money at the problem
>>>>>> (which is a diminishing returns situation) or you can detect an
>>>>>> impending failure and just schedule a replacement at the next docking
>>>>>> period, production line shutdown, holiday period etc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sounds like that IBM Watson ad where it schedules airplane
>>>>> maintenance.
>>>> 
>>>> Was this in the late 1940s with tab machines?  IBM did a lot of
>>>> advertising back then.
>>> 
>>> No, this is current. The new system is telling the mechanics that a
>>> capacitor will need to be replaced during the next mIntenance.
>>> 
>>
>> In the movie "2001 a space odysey" HAL 'detected' that a radio was about
>> to fail...
> 
> You do realise that HAL was (a) mad & (b) lying?
> 
> 

Certainly I know that something was wrong with HAL, as it is with most A.I. 
things in these stories.  You can aways tell by the glowing red eyes.

Freddy,
just bloodshot, not glowing...

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