principles:murphy_s_law
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This means the fewer possibilities there are that a mistake is made, the fewer there will be. As mistakes are generally undesirable, | This means the fewer possibilities there are that a mistake is made, the fewer there will be. As mistakes are generally undesirable, | ||
- | Note that ML does //not// claim that everything constantly fails unless there is no possibility to do so. It simply says that statistically in the long run a system will fail if it can. | + | |
===== Strategies ===== | ===== Strategies ===== | ||
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- | Furthermore every defect in any system is a manifestation of ML. If there is a fault then obviously something went wrong. The correlation between the number of possibilities for introducing defects and the actual defect count can be regarded trivially intuitive. | + | |
===== Relations to Other Principles ===== | ===== Relations to Other Principles ===== | ||
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