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Re:Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg by carlmr on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @11:27AM (#20460480)
I studied control engineering, and I bet he forgot some things. A few things come to mind. How does he recognize sensor failure (pretty important in closed-loop systems, like MCAS for example)? Did he use floating point math which may cause numerical issues? Does he use integrators and limit their output? If he does limit the output does he counteract windup? If he uses neural networks, did he gather enough data that we can be sure that this things works?

There's so many pitfalls here where teams of engineers with the whole part spec and from different disciplines have failed before. It sounds very dangerous.

Re:Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg by penagwin on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @11:31AM (#20460546)
Fuzzing seems like a really useful test for this.

Either way, I agree I'm not really subscribed to the idea that DIY life critical systems are a good idea beyond POC.

Re:Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg by roribob on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @01:14PM (#20461749)
Maybe it isn't life critical but only quality of life critical?
Re:Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg by penagwin on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @05:06PM (#20464010)
If it pumps too much you're dead - which is why I'm considering it life critical.

Not enough is also bad but hopefully they'll notice and can act accordingly - still a threat too though.

It's not that we're all saying this is an unsafe machine, we're saying that a random person DIY'ing and using such a solution is very risky, there's a reason why commercial medical equipment requires rigorous testing/certifications, etc.

Re:Why I’m turning my son into a cyborg by DanBC on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @02:09PM (#20462391)
Insulin pumps are both.