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Robust-first computing: Demon Horde Sort (full version)

Dave Ackley demonstrates the Demon Horde Sort, an inherently robust sorting machine running in his Movable Feast Machine simulator. This is the uncut version with all details and side thoughts.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN readers recommend it as the best introduction to robust-first computing, where randomness and fault tolerance are built into the architecture.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Dave Ackley
Topic
robust-first computing
Format
demo
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
9
Recommendation years in dataset
2015–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • A Movable Feast Machine [1] is a "Robust First" asynchronous distributed fault tolerant cellular-automata-like computer architecture. The video "Distributed City Generation" [2] demonstrates how you can program a set of Movable Feast Machine rules that build a self-healing city that fills all available space with …

    DonHopkins on Hacker News · 2017-05
    In Robust-First Computing: Distributed City Generation (2015) [video]

  • I recently submitted a link about "Robust First Computing". It didn't get any response, but I'll repeat the link and description here, since it's certainly esoteric, but has some extremely important properties. Robust-First Computing: Distributed City Generation [LINK] A Movable Feast Machine [1] is a …

    DonHopkins on Hacker News · 2017-05
    In Esoteric programming paradigms

  • Fantastic article. Probabilistic algorithm design is fascinating to me because it's all about making sure that the system behaves as expected, rather than every individual operation being perfect. Implementing most random algorithms in practise strongly reminds me of studies of populations & behaviours of organic …

    Kapura on Hacker News · 2015-12
    In It Probably Works: Probabilistic algorithms are all around us

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