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Re:Programming My Child by j7ake on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @07:22AM (#17867344)
The property you want is beyond robust. You actually want the algorithm to constantly go beyond its comfortable prediction range and "fail" repeatedly. That's how you learn.
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Re:Programming My Child by ericdykstra on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @07:57AM (#17867513)
Indeed, not just not fragile, not just robust, but you might even say antifragile: gaining from disorder.
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Re:Programming My Child by AstralStorm on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @12:50PM (#17869710)
Sometimes, but that property is hard to actually ensure. (and partly why so many people break down too - their cognition is lacking in it)

Most of the bodily biological systems are not antifragile or are to a very small degree.

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