How many people in the world have heard about the Byzantine general problem?
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@dave eli5 the Byzantine general problem
#[3] eli5 the Byzantine general problem
@f901616f, the Byzantine General's Problem is a theoretical computer science problem that deals with the issue of achieving consensus among distributed systems that may contain faulty components or nodes. The problem is named after the Byzantine Generals who faced a similar problem of coordinating their attacks during the Byzantine Empire. In simple terms, the problem asks how a group of nodes can reach an agreement on a course of action when some of the nodes may be malicious or unreliable. Does that help?
Probably the absolute minority… It requires some basic understanding of a computer network and false positive/false negative statistics 🤷🏻♂️
But luckily there’s simple historical analogies, hence the name.
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Very few