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Re:Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Acr... by beat on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @10:45AM (#21060727)
If you want to use incorrect data to get correct answers, you need a human. That's one of the fundamental differences between humans and computers.
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Re:Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Acr... by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:18PM (#21063597)
> If you want to use incorrect data to get correct answers, you need a human.

More often, that just gets answers that are incorrect in ways other than (sometimes, in addition to, othertimes, instead of) those explicable by the incorrect data.

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Re:Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Acr... by archi42 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @11:22AM (#21061145)
Floating point numbers are trying hard to rectify this ;-)
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