Me, a software engineer, encountering a bug after watching this video: "yeah that must be the cosmic radiation again, definitely no errors in my code for sure"

@zinodz8774

2 жыл бұрын

I wish i can relate 😅 i never learned how to code .

@Shuroii

2 жыл бұрын

@@zinodz8774 it's never too late to learn anything!

@zinodz8774

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shuroii you know .....i can make a million excuses .but let's just say that "it is what it is" :)

@matchedpowerofthesun

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of that time earlier today that I completely messed up code on a Fandom page and had to stitch together code from several other wikis

@ryanm7263

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I had the same thought

Ok but how do we get one of those charged particles to flip a 0 in our bank accounts so we can get an extra million $$$$ by mistake? Asking for a friend.

@actsrv9

2 жыл бұрын

The alphabet flip in your comment is poetic.

@elisusisgay

2 жыл бұрын

AntsCanada?

@ChatGPT1111

2 жыл бұрын

Take a smoke detector with you next time you visit an ATM.

@lach888c2

2 жыл бұрын

You’ll need multiple particle accelerators , not the big fancy ones just the regular kind. Then you find out where the servers that hold the data and the backup records for your bank account are. Aim a particle accelerator in the general direction of each of the servers and start bit flipping until your bank account changes to what you want.

@tonyzang2344

2 жыл бұрын

You just need uranium

Imagine being a particle shooting through space for billions of years only to help someone beat a level of Mario.

@bry0402

3 ай бұрын

"I wonder where I'll land..." *hits something and a yahoo! plays* "Oh."

@ramikarandiv2006

3 ай бұрын

Then my PC is a best option for them. But in other way. (Blue crashing screen)

@qbanz00

3 ай бұрын

“Insert can you hear the music soundtrack” 😂

@The_Server_ong

3 ай бұрын

hhahhahahahahahhhAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHgha aHA HA HA HA

@SubSilence

3 ай бұрын

"It's been an honour, plumber boy."

It's a little comforting knowing that if there was ever a robot uprising, the universe would be there to protect us.

@HasteHub

7 ай бұрын

or maybe the universe could turn the robots against us

@idehenebenezer802

6 ай бұрын

​@@HasteHub🤣🤣🤣

@Donkadocus

5 ай бұрын

Bit flipping is evolution for robots

@oompalumpus699

4 ай бұрын

​@@DonkadocusEvolution isn't always guaranteed. If not a random particle, then it could be a random continent-sized rock flying through space.

@geox555

4 ай бұрын

Your dinosaur profile picture makes your comment about robots 10 times better :))

Just imagine, a black hole shoots a jet of near-light-speed particles in a random direction, one of these particles travels through space for billions of years, passes by stars, black holes, entire galaxies... and then it just sorta makes Mario teleport to a higher platform. The universe is such a weird an crazy place.

@himadrijoshi

2 жыл бұрын

Or gives extra votes to someone, in an election 😊 Edit : those arguing - Have you even watched the video ? This is what happened in Belgium. Ugh.

@aidenorpington4637

2 жыл бұрын

Tf?

@teosandell4278

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zeburakeki maybe they were referencing the video?

@jesperengelbredt

2 жыл бұрын

This makes me want to grab people in the streets and say "Have you head this?"

@denkikaminari7887

2 жыл бұрын

ikr so weird

"How did you win?" "I guess the stars just aligned"

@panda_invention1810

2 жыл бұрын

😭

@leosmi1

2 жыл бұрын

LMFAO

@WolfyPlays

2 жыл бұрын

it really does give a new meaning to that phrase, the stories of a king being born under the right alignment of stars and all might just be true lol

@gbxmusicchannel3836

2 жыл бұрын

Joe biden 2020 :)

@harsharya545

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, indeed the _stars may have aligned._

My company had an unexplained event like this some 20-25 years ago. The bottom valve of a chemical reactor opened prematurely dropping the batch from that reactor into the next reactor, ruining both batches. The investigation found no issues with hardware and software. Watching this video jogged my memory on that incident and now I truly believe it was caused by cosmic rays.

@Lizards_Lounge

9 ай бұрын

hmm, another perfect example why depending on computers will likely come to be a big mistake. we so busy worrying about if we can, but not if WE SHOULD>

@universenerdd

9 ай бұрын

​@@Lizards_LoungeEhh id say the better alternative is having a failsafe

@squidwardo7074

5 ай бұрын

@@Lizards_Lounge The 1000s of %'s of efficiency we gained from computers is well worth a couple mishaps here and there, and its not like that never happens with human operators.

@DeletedDevilDeletedAngel

5 ай бұрын

@@Lizards_Lounge NASA has cosmic ray proof tech, I dont think the problem is THAT big after we learn from our mistakes. Computers used to be a bitch 20-40 years ago

@thatwindowsxpfan1234

4 ай бұрын

@@Lizards_Loungeor... use ecc ram (ray proofed)

Bro. The amount of knowledge that is out there that we don’t even know about is crazy. I never knew something like this even existed/ considered it. I’m a software engineer and work with computer hardware, never knew this was a thing

@modalinterchange8359

3 ай бұрын

Yes, you can spend your entire life working on IC analog circuits and still have so much to discover on things like firmware’s, pcb design, semiconductor fabriaction, etc

@eeyorehaferbock7870

2 ай бұрын

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” -H.P. Lovecraft (I copy-pasted that quote from somewhere else due to its length)

@Isaac-eh6uu

Ай бұрын

If you encountered it you would probably just think it was some kind of error outside of your code and just move on. Probably super rare for particle flip a bit so who knows if one would ever encounter it.

@CigsInABlanket

Ай бұрын

Its not a thing. This is like seeing a UFO, then coming to the conclusion that it must be aliens. It was recently proven that the mario 64 bit flip was not caused by "cosmic rays", but a hardware malfunction. I can guarantee every other example given here is similar. "we couldn't find the problem, so it must be an issue from outer space" - cmon now.

@alamrasyidi4097

Ай бұрын

everyone in IT probably has heard of bogos sort, a ridiculous sorting algorithm that rearranges the list randomly until it just so happens the random rearranging resulted in an ordered list. an even wackier sorting algoorithm, however, is one that does nothing but occasionally check if the list had been correctly ordered, relying solely on these cosmic rays to flip the bits in just the right way so that the list is ordered

I hope the bit flips on the bank server where my account balance data is stored.

@blaxmas

2 жыл бұрын

And hope it doesn't change from 1 to 0

@dapizzaking4455

2 жыл бұрын

@@blaxmas cant flip from 1 to 0 when its already 0 😎

@freddiem7993

2 жыл бұрын

the sign bit

@edyasia

2 жыл бұрын

NO!! this never happen!!! never. is cosmicly impossible

@philipjkb15

2 жыл бұрын

My dad had 93 million € on his bank account overnight. After a week it was only 50 million, and after 2 more weeks back to the normal amount. So that may actually be possible

"Sir, why were you going over the speed limit?" "Uhhhh... Cosmic particles?"

@tonydai782

2 жыл бұрын

Didn’t expect to see you guys here!

@GY-bd9bo

2 жыл бұрын

"I was trying to play Rush E using the engine revving as a metronome, here look I have the piano app on my phone here!"

@tanishqkumar1640

2 жыл бұрын

Here before 1k likes

@HarnaiDigital

2 жыл бұрын

*Science, molecules and convenience* - Hank Pym Hishe 2015 🤣

@tfraidium1602

2 жыл бұрын

Nice idea 😂😂

As a computer engineer, this is an amazing collection of scientific explanations and history on this issue.

@AlexMkd1984

5 ай бұрын

you computer engineer 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 i laughed so hard 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Morphinwithyou

5 ай бұрын

@@AlexMkd1984 It seems I'm not smart person like you and I couldn't understand what you are trying to say or what did you laugh for? Why do you care who I am and what the hack do you possibly know about me?

@peganmiha

Ай бұрын

​@@AlexMkd1984you do know people have actual jobs right? 😭

Just want to say that I absolutely love this channel, after getting out of school and feeling like questions I've had as a kid get shut down all the time amongst other things. Your videos rekindle my fascination with all things science, not only that but you're able to break down and explain some wildly complicated things that most people wouldn't even begin to understand. Just goes to show how much effort you put into research and understanding, as well as talking to field professionals & experts. It doesn't go unnoticed and I hope you never stop making these. Thank you Derek!

Imagine having a bad run and then the universe is like: “I gotchu bro”

@aweslayne

2 жыл бұрын

Or it could turn against you and pull you back 3 stages down

@almostok692

2 жыл бұрын

@@aweslayne lmaooooooo

@parthivdoddarapu901

2 жыл бұрын

Wait so any speedrun cud have itss e pearl drop rate like infinite times. right? and maybe some speedruns like dreams wud not have been actual cheating. Or am i wrong and didnt undrstand the point, Sorry for bad english...

@averagegenzguy2751

2 жыл бұрын

@@parthivdoddarapu901 nope his dev messed up, he increased the rates. Dream is sorry

@hypnotoad28

2 жыл бұрын

@@parthivdoddarapu901 Pretty much, unlikely though. But Dream admitted he accidentally cheated with a program used for mods or whatever if you hadn't heard about that, so he was definitely cheating in that case, intentional or not x)

"Computers work precisely because bits don't flip unless we want them to. Or do they?" Cue Vsauce music.

@sothreego

2 жыл бұрын

Bro not joking, I missed him and his videos. Especially Mindset series!

@zukacs

2 жыл бұрын

i love how story folds back on itself on minute 10 exactly like vsauce does too :D

@seedlingboi9088

2 жыл бұрын

right? WRONG

@abhinavgaming2110

2 жыл бұрын

@@AxxLAfriku happy 9th birthday!

@Parajulibkrm

2 жыл бұрын

@@sothreego mindfield*

Several years ago I saw a flash of light just as I closed my eyes and sat down on my bed. I tried recreating it, thinking it was the sunlight shining through my window, but nothing like it ever happened again, no matter how I moved around my room. Now, I finally have a possible explanation.

@horohousu

16 күн бұрын

Cosmic rays don't affect your eyes. It's uncommon but very normal to see a quick flash of light due to some small error in the inner workings of your eye.

The animation fidelity made from the picture was really well done. Amazing. Congratulations

So Cyberpunk isnt "buggy", its just "cosmically attuned"

@thejanasilva2525

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@captainrogerdodger144

2 жыл бұрын

i knew it🤣

@shreyashshambharkar3973

2 жыл бұрын

This comment is Gold 😂

@_____J______

2 жыл бұрын

They bastards: Universe stole Cyberpunk!

@ronisaiba9623

2 жыл бұрын

shitty on an astronomical scale.

So the universe itself casted its 4,096 votes, and we just discounted them? sheesh

@zazanashrulhuda

Жыл бұрын

Universe be like : "hey, we know this guy. Let us give 4096 votes!"

@patrickbateman2164

Жыл бұрын

@@zazanashrulhuda does maria sound like a dude name?

@Itsgyro

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickbateman2164 it absolutely could be. Heard of di maria?

@lukerogers979

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickbateman2164 I would not have that

@patrickbateman2164

Жыл бұрын

@@Itsgyro that's a surname kid.

I loved this video so much! It mixes my two favorite things, physics and computer science. It shows not only the extreme complexity yet fragility of our tiny computer bits, but also shows a small fraction the unseeable universe we live in. Great video! I’ll do all the algorithm happy things including writing this long comment!

Hearing the music slowly fading in, the same song that you've been using for like 10 yrs now feels like home when i watch your videos. thank you!

Imagine sitting in a plane and the guy next to you pulls out a Geiger counter.

@fstorino

2 жыл бұрын

That single event would very much upset me

@magnushultgrenhtc

2 жыл бұрын

Also narrating it each time. 😂

@juliusxi1666

2 жыл бұрын

@@magnushultgrenhtc and recording it

@obnoxioussubconscious8895

2 жыл бұрын

@@fstorino That was a nice one 😂

@chob.h7914

2 жыл бұрын

AND Then by coincidence a bit flips and the plane loses altitude just like that A330 in the video

I'm a software engineer and now every issue explanation will be "it's cosmic rays, man"

@surferp89

2 жыл бұрын

Trruuee

@CertainOverlord

2 жыл бұрын

my windows 10 laptop was running fine, only one app was open, then it crashed, and gave me the o'l "your pc ran into a problem needs to restart" then i get on KZread today and see this.

@shobhitsadwal756

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha ,true

@epel3010

2 жыл бұрын

you got me hahahaha

@mk_rexx

2 жыл бұрын

Call it Single Event Upsets (SEU) so it's less obvious

Finally a legitimate reason for my alarm clock not going off

To all the people editing these videos thank you for making science fun again

Maria can say universe literally was on her side that day

@martinsimeonov1563

2 жыл бұрын

So true 🤣

@ricardorico1677

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@TimVolkovPhD

2 жыл бұрын

which means she should have won and rightly so :)

@bumblebee9337

2 жыл бұрын

She's the ultimate lobbyist.

@AnAdequateViolinist

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad for Maria, the universe is not very bright

Can’t wait for speed runners to start speedrunning in Cherynbol for an extra second less

@thekingoftheworld9553

2 жыл бұрын

I just thought that Dream could now use this as an excuse 😂

@johnbaker7102

2 жыл бұрын

@@thekingoftheworld9553 too bad he already admitted to “accidentally” cheating. I bet if he held out and saw this video, I’m sure he would hire another “expert” to come up with a way to use cosmic rays as an excuse

@jimpie6150

2 жыл бұрын

Speedrunning games and their lives at the same time, brilliant

@noelvalenzarro

2 жыл бұрын

Why is Mio smoking?

@rzezzy1

2 жыл бұрын

Some dragon quest 3 speedrunners put their console on a hot plate to make use of a glitch comes up when overheated... So maybe one day

Yeah I agree with the others. This is honestly one of the best educational videos I have come across on the internet. It opened my mind about a lot of things, one is that we shouldn’t let our everyday work stress us out too much, because if problems or “errors” did not exist we would not progress as problem solvers and critical thinkers.

One of the most interesting docs I've seen in a while. Keep up the good work.

**Calculator spits out a different number, than i expect** "These stupid galaxies, i swear..."

@RezonSV

2 жыл бұрын

Lol 😆🤣😂

@Mynipplesmychoice

2 жыл бұрын

ME: why do u write with these dialogue boxes YOU: Because I’m trying to fit in and my brain is still developing! ME: okay stop YOU: I slurp on my turds

@studyingisfun5868

2 жыл бұрын

Funniest joke of the day

@nuggetz9380

2 жыл бұрын

LMAOOOOO

@danielarnold9042

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mynipplesmychoice wtf?

Maria is one of the only people that can claim the universe elected her.

@iam_sirius

2 жыл бұрын

Good one

@harshitraj953

2 жыл бұрын

🤩🤩

@sridharkrishnan1591

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. The entire cosmos is at her side.

@RC-zf7hp

2 жыл бұрын

Haha winner!

@moobloom155

2 жыл бұрын

o-o-one of?

The lessons on this site are so well presented that I keep coming back for more. Some are way over my head but the presenter has such a comfortable style that I can’t turn him off.

Great work putting this video together!

Imagine winning an election because of a supernova that happened billions of years ago

@alice_in_wonderland42

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine existing because of a supernova that happened which created a lot of new elements, which the Earth is made up of.

@Yakoable

2 жыл бұрын

At this point, you're entitled to say the universe wants you to win.

@PremierCCGuyMMXVI

2 жыл бұрын

Another reason why space is very cool

@cubing7276

2 жыл бұрын

@@Yakoable lmao

@cubing7276

2 жыл бұрын

You still need people to not notice tho

Supernova probably billions of years ago: Yeah I think Maria looks promising, but since I'm a cosmic event my vote is worth 4096 votes!

@faizan.

2 жыл бұрын

😀

@rocioayra9866

2 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment. I love it!

@kaushalsanyal5924

2 жыл бұрын

It is against democracy but but but supernova is not a human

@michaelsoddy1892

2 жыл бұрын

Yo nice pfp

@DetectiveWraith

2 жыл бұрын

A separate one must really like speedrunning

9:17 - I don't think the reason is so "obvious".

I can't understand how every other video on this channel just blows my mind... Also the cloud chamber would make for an amazing animated wallaper

As a software engineer, we've been blaming cosmic rays for our bugs for years. "I assure you, despite you having the error right in front of you, it's impossible. Have you tried running our software from inside a salt mine?"

@stickguy9109

2 жыл бұрын

I am hearing about this for the first time. But there were times when i was so sure there is no bug and then i hit play again without changing anything and everything works. Now i know

@Vysair

2 жыл бұрын

@@stickguy9109 Visual Studio be like

@ericrowe1412

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes the universe itself it stacked against us

@TheFinnish1

2 жыл бұрын

"salt mine" I guess aperture science is safe from these rays

@DanKaschel

2 жыл бұрын

@@stickguy9109 I mean, odds are that the environment was to blame and not a cosmic ray. But it is possible, yes. I’ve certainly had times when I was tempted to blame a cosmic ray for some weird behavior I couldn’t reproduce.

Maria should have been declared winner, I mean even the universe itself voted for her.

@Isai314

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@IronGravyBoat

2 жыл бұрын

The real issue is the universe cast too many votes.

@olaffalo4686

2 жыл бұрын

The universe is not a citizen of belgium

@arthas640

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of how some criminals were pardoned for all their crimes when multiple executions failed because the courts ruled that God obviously thougt he was innocent or at least shouldn't be punished. I heard about a pirate or highwayman that had multiple nooses break so they let him go.

@noone-jw4gm

2 жыл бұрын

You think universe is something that can and want to vote in the elections? For what cause. You wanna bring it to some karma-shmarma or syncretic esoterism alike things?

This reminds me of an incident back in 2017 or so. I was busy working on several of my devices all at once, when nearly every single one of them locked up. All except of course for Phoenix, my dual-processor home server/workstation. It being built off of a decommissioned server motherboard meant of course that I had fully populated its 18 RAM slots with a total of 72gb of registered ECC memory. That computer of course just kept on trucking like nothing had happened.

this is by far my favorite video of yours

Skynet: "Peace was never an option." Cosmic Ray: *Zap* Skynet: "Peace was always an option."

@kakalimukherjee3297

2 жыл бұрын

lol

@NonsenseTreasure

2 жыл бұрын

Has probably happened the other way though 🤔

@user-gk8wj3gr9r

2 жыл бұрын

@@NonsenseTreasure F in the chat for humanity

@McGravyBoii

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@gokuldas027

2 жыл бұрын

A little help from the Universe

"It was caused by a cosmic ray" will be my favourite excuse from now on.

@DaleTrevors

Жыл бұрын

In the past folks used to say it was the act of gods. The same strange kind of events.

@wokevirushandsanitzer5300

Жыл бұрын

My school work was ate by the do… ohh I mean… a cosmic ray caused it to be deleted off my computer.

@aghostofrazgriz5137

Жыл бұрын

Any Tech issue i have im just gonna say "Bit flip".

@NevilleEkka

Жыл бұрын

According to the video, so did Microsoft.

@stanleybochenek1862

Жыл бұрын

Damn

I love your wisdom, blessed to come across your channel 🤙🏻

Imagine one day Cosmic Rays will flip the 64-th bit in your bank account's total money.

@omgdodogamer4759

2 күн бұрын

singlehandedly carrying the global economy 🙏

I work in IT support and this was like learning that demons are real.

@generic6099

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, except the demons just come in the form of having the misfortune of not using ECC memory and subsequently intel nudging ECC memory away from consumers hands by marketing it as an enterprise feature. (i believe it was either linus torvalds/richard stallman that made an article regarding ecc memory)

@yukariyakumo9622

2 жыл бұрын

Computer: *randomly flips a bit* IT guy: get me holy water and salt

@spooderman6312

2 жыл бұрын

The -exorcist- IT guy

@JVRD27

2 жыл бұрын

I work with Quality Assurance, I can't even imagine testing something like that 🤣

@abandonedaccount123

2 жыл бұрын

@@generic6099 *has no idea what any of that means*

Maria's next campaign slogan: "even the universe wants me to win"

@shardator

2 жыл бұрын

Cosmos cast ITS vote.

@DK-ox8gh

2 жыл бұрын

Maria actually did win the election. But she was a populist/nationalist and the Ieftists couldn't let her win so they blamed the cosmic particles.

@oofy_emma1072

2 жыл бұрын

@@DK-ox8gh ripbozo

@jonathanbautz3234

2 жыл бұрын

@@DK-ox8gh That sounds quite unlikely

@haziblathif491

2 жыл бұрын

@@DK-ox8gh I mean, if you go around bashing leftists or liberals for being more scientific, you should reconsider your political beliefs because science is factual. Cares nothing about your feelings.

This is an unexpectedly interesting video! Thanks for that!

I wanted to express my gratitude for the informative video on Single Event Effect (SEE), which offered a concise and comprehensible explanation.

*The stars align* Universe: "Bank error in your favor." Universe: "Collect $5000"

@tigrafale4610

2 жыл бұрын

$4096*

@TheRmbomo

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, thanks for landing on my Baltic Avenue. Maybe I'll win second place in a beauty contest and win $5006 next! And just wait until I pass GO.

@Torchedini

2 жыл бұрын

Accountant says no. Go to jail, do not pass start, do not collect $200

@scifino1

2 жыл бұрын

Given my typical luck, it's pretty safe to assume, that, if such a bit flip ever happens to me, it flips the first bit in a signed int representing my bank account's value from 0 to 1.

@worldalternate

2 жыл бұрын

With my lucky I'd probably lose $32768 and have no way to get it back.

She literally got helped by the universe and still didn’t win

@josephputra2987

2 жыл бұрын

no she win the next election, chosen by ppl. Universe used plan b

@thelikebutton3451

2 жыл бұрын

The Cosmos literally voted for her.

@BizVlogs

2 жыл бұрын

21:21 sounds like she won in the end

@hanklim5076

2 жыл бұрын

Maria Vindevoghel: universe’s Marxist choice

@sumerbc7409

2 жыл бұрын

If she was a democrat they would've just given it to her, like Joe.

"Nah, it not an autocorrect, it was caused by a cosmic ray" "We're talking right now"

That was a brilliant analysis...loved it

Imagine holding a speed run record because a cosmic ray bit-flipped the right bit...at the right time..leaving you with a nigh-unbeatable record.

@noodleman793

2 жыл бұрын

I guess the cosmos itself was watching the speed run

@jatinsharma5650

2 жыл бұрын

so your telling me speedrun happens without this phenomenon?

@somerandom7672

2 жыл бұрын

A literal miracle. The more we learn, the less ridiculous the concept of 'divine intervention' seems.

@DevinDTV

2 жыл бұрын

@@somerandom7672 if that were the case, you'd think the cosmic ray would have happened during a serious speed run attempt rather than a practice session. what was the purpose of this divine intervention? to confuse speed runners for a few years?

@lawjef

2 жыл бұрын

Except... you will never be able to come close to replicating your record either. Which isn't a good look

“I begged the universe to help me break the Mario speed run world record, and the universe obliged.”

@bastion8804

2 жыл бұрын

Luckily, it's not a blindfold run.

@vintagegamer7027

2 жыл бұрын

DREAM

@ryanklick3572

2 жыл бұрын

Say you beat the world record with a cosmic bit flip glitch in a glitches allowed category…. Does it count? It’s the ultimate glitch.

@thursday7305

2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone else think this sounds like a bad anime title

@Laszer271

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryanklick3572 If that were to be allowed even in runs that aren't glitchless it would lead to the ultimate strategy to be to put your computer inside particle colider and just play hoping for some lucky glitches.

watching this while having my digital systems final tomorrow hits different

I work in domain management, and when we advise customers on lookalike domains, bitsquatting is something we also take into account. Basically a bit flip changing a character in the original domain.

So what you’re saying is that at literally any point in time while I’m playing on my computer, the universe can vibe check my PC.

@valinorean4816

2 жыл бұрын

and any neuron in your brain. boom! and you no longer remember your first crush's mom's maiden name. or something more important...

@heated1333

2 жыл бұрын

​@@valinorean4816 Luckily, memories aren't stored in single bits of information in our brains ^-^ So that won't happen. Though one strand of DNA could change, but it would likely be killed by other healthy cells. It's only going to very heavily change reproduction. very lucky for us

@valinorean4816

2 жыл бұрын

@@heated1333 and how are they stored? (I vaguely remember that for the long-term memories it's not just about neural circuits and there are some special proteins, restricted to one neuron, that's why i said this?)

@heated1333

2 жыл бұрын

@@valinorean4816 most memories are stored in physical pathways, very small but not exactly similar to computer chips. Some of them are stronger paths then others, but almost all of them should be strong enough to resist getting wiped from rads. Actually some people have even had memory survive through things like a pickaxe in the head :D Humans are both surprisingly resistant and vulnerable at the same time

@valinorean4816

2 жыл бұрын

@@heated1333 links on this info?

“My name is Sagittarius A and I endorse Maria for office.” How black holes sound, probably.

@soyanshumohapatra

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂 But only Legends can understand.

@alex0589

2 жыл бұрын

“I’m starfarts and i approve of this message”

@edwinjoy9

2 жыл бұрын

This got me in tears! 😂😂😂😂

@SocratesAlexander

2 жыл бұрын

She is chosen by the Cosmos.

@joseville

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

You really got me with the blue screen crash near the end. I thought, "how ironic!"

Finally someone talking about what I always thought could be the only explanation to things happened to me myself. And this also correlates perfectly to your recent entropy video, cause it matches to have a mechanism like this to increase chaos in the universe. A big picture puzzles together, however this time going backwards in time on KZread. You have a good resilience about common thoughts and you do seem to somehow break through standard thinking patterns, explaining reality using an uninfluenced, neutral way of the minimum understanding capabilities of an open minded human being. Which is a quite rare species to find on this planet still. But maybe these videos can make a change. Thanks for not giving up!

This is the most drawn out excuse for losing a 1v1, ever. Let it go, Derek.

@woomynation

2 жыл бұрын

It was a cosmic particle I swear!

@supasf

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha real

@LordVodka313

2 жыл бұрын

Per chance, Is this an 'iniquity' reference?

@miguelwsth7739

2 жыл бұрын

LOL

@steviebee1989

2 жыл бұрын

Did you mean lose? There is only one o in lose. Loose is what your shoe laces do.

"Off by 4096" Programmers: I know where this is headed.

@daemonace5910

2 жыл бұрын

You know the rules and so do I

@cyscott2714

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering were was the parity bit in all this.

@colincollins

2 жыл бұрын

@@cyscott2714 seriously 😳

@dbuezas

2 жыл бұрын

I always assumed that voting machines would use many checksums, software and hardware redundancy, hashes, and methods cleverer than I can imagine. Aaaaaaaand they don't 😥

@Laszer271

2 жыл бұрын

And most other software doesn't use that either. If people don't even know this problem why would they assume that they need checksums and backups? They think that if the program is tested enough, it will work and in many cases it does while in some it fails tremendously because of something not being taken into account.

The blue screen at the end, which then evolved into the channel logo, was some good creativity

Just a particle which has travelled half way across the universe for millions of billions of years, can cause "error 404" ☠

Imagine getting a new world record of speedrun because a cosmic rays shoots your computer

@tillson8686

2 жыл бұрын

Literally a sign from the universe that you deserve that run

@samstoddard4191

2 жыл бұрын

REALLY good rng

@Mohammed-op4kv

2 жыл бұрын

It wont work ur computer is protected, he said it in the vid

@eclipset.9683

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mohammed-op4kv If ECC memory is all that it took, then we wouldn't be making the Mars Rover 40x more resilient than regular computers. I believe ECC was meant to be a standard for DDR4 memory, (so only special DDR3 has it), but it's only enough to make it unnoticeable for normal people. For more important tasks, like running servers, you'll see a history of accounting for this effect and taking the necessary precautions.

@test-rj2vl

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if that speedrun would count? I mean first you'd have to deal with hacking accusations and then the speedrun community itself could have rule that bitflips dont count and all you gain from that is just cool video or if this game has save game feature, some interesting save game file that you could share for fun.

"Cosmic rays" has been a sysadmin joke for explaining system failure for about 30 years, and it's cool to have a video like this that actually explains what happens.

@farmergiles1065

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's a joke about a reality. As a programming neophyte in 1980, I was quick to hear of a faculty member who had proved one of his programs had failed to run correctly when the program logic was correct. The machine was an IBM-360-type mainframe, and after the program proof, a bit flip at a certain point was demonstrated to cause the same failure. The faculty was well aware of cosmic rays and the many experiences NASA had been accumulating over years of flights, so there was no reticence about looking there. When a new computer science building was erected subsequently, it contained rather a lot of concrete, and the mainframe was located in a deep basement under a thick layer of it, in order to minimize its vulnerability to cosmic rays, reducing detectable quantities by a significant margin. So for us students who had to produce working programs within a given number of tries, we had to meet a high bar to make such claims, and the joke was more about what would be required to submit a proof to the admins.

@chriskennedy2846

2 жыл бұрын

We should just use the computers they used in the late '60s for lunar missions. They seemed to survive okay.

@prakharmishra3000

2 жыл бұрын

@@chriskennedy2846 they were ferrite beads wound on copper wires. The bits were programmed into the position of the bead itself. You can't use them to do any modern tasks. They were good for basic computing required in the 60s.

@38911bytefree

2 жыл бұрын

@@prakharmishra3000 But they still had registers, acumulators.... running on silicon. Program was rope memory (try to beat that).

@PriceAintRight

2 жыл бұрын

This thread is educational as hell.

16:44 depending on a plane of course, there is a point where you are so high that the atmosphere is thin enough for you to overspeed, but also too thin to support the lift of the plane that you can overspeed and stall at the same time. Obviously a commercial plane probably won't be flying that high but the physics says you can stall and over speed

Awesome. I seriously enjoyed this. Thanks!

I wouldn't want to be those guys debugging the error, that should've been so frustrating to reproduce.

@jkojkojkojk

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly why they blamed a soft error. This conspiracy goes all the way to the top!!

@TheWormzerjr

2 жыл бұрын

i c u. the error is the mandela effect.

@280SE

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine 🤯

@senantiasa

2 жыл бұрын

On the bright side, you can now start using Single Event Upset as a reason for one time errors when your debug is going nowhere...

@EdgarFroes

2 жыл бұрын

@@senantiasa hahaha absolutely

"Cosmic rays are trying to crash my car!!!" "Honey, you're stepping on the gas pedal." We're doomed as a species.

@darko.v

2 жыл бұрын

Humanity is like a snake, some are at the head and some further back :D

@vodkacannon

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they’re trying to delude themselves into thinking it’s not their fault.

@astronemir

2 жыл бұрын

Big brain time: Maybe cosmic rays flipped the impulse in the neuron responsible for pressing the gas vs. not pressing on the gas.

@darko.v

2 жыл бұрын

@King Pistachion Hoomans

@danielharvison7510

2 жыл бұрын

@@darko.v "Hew-mons!" If you're Ferengi.

absolutely love this channel

Man, the blue screen of death fake out gets me every single time. It wasn't until I made it to the second season of IT Crowd that I finally learned to expect it in the opening credits.

Me losing another game: "Those rays again, I swear..."

@laddaleangthong2684

2 жыл бұрын

Noice, now I have other thing to blame instead of lag when it's clearly my fault that I lose because I'm bad.

@apollyon10

2 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

@ahmedexmor

2 жыл бұрын

That's my newest excuse and conversation starter

@raceabilene

2 жыл бұрын

I'm now blaming the misfire that gave me a 2nd in Solo on Fortnite last night on those damn cosmic rays.

@aestheticvibezz142

2 жыл бұрын

But It will be hard to explain your teammates 😏

"Our game doesn't have bugs, they're just a primary target of cosmic rays!" - Todd Howard, probably

@jeffrodiziack5285

2 жыл бұрын

ded

@chattw6885

2 жыл бұрын

A todd howard joke on a veritasium video, now I have seen it all...

@yepespp1664

2 жыл бұрын

@@chattw6885 Bet you haven't seen the subreddit witches against communism then

@Vangriffeth

2 жыл бұрын

RIP

@glass7923

2 жыл бұрын

you have a typo

TQ for the vedio mate, appreciate your work it's mind-blowing

Love this guy and this channel.

This is the singlehandedly the most ultimate excuse for all IT professionals. Thank you Veritasium, you have no idea how invaluable this video is to us overworked sysadmins and poor souls of tech support around the world.

@starscream2092

2 жыл бұрын

Tech: Yes what is your problem maam ? Customer: My laptop wont start. Tech: Its cosmic rays maam, i cant do anything about that.

@zicho1st

2 жыл бұрын

remember those hackers that 'attacked' gas pipeline ... that was probably an excuse of IT professionals, as their control system were not resilient to charged particles, or induced currents. Because ... at that time, CME hit the Earth in that exact location.

@InsanePorcupine

2 жыл бұрын

Why am I getting constant BSOD's? Cosmic particles.

@contrapasta2454

2 жыл бұрын

The IT equivalent of archeology's "It's ceremonial"

@firstlast9292

2 жыл бұрын

Helpdesk isn't IT professionals. Otherwise you'd know what CRC and hashes are and how only the most primitive (or very old) systems, or poorly designed systems would be susceptible to problems like flipped bits.

“So now bugs are not only an obstacle, they’re a feature” - The Universe

@charlietube7165

2 жыл бұрын

So people eat features

@tiffyw92

2 жыл бұрын

"I totally meant to do that." - The Universe

wasn't looking at the screen at the time and the jump scare at the end worked

the speedrunner got blessed by the universe's luck

"Hey, why is your code failing in prod?" "cosmic rays"

@kshitizjain9557

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@cmaxz817

2 жыл бұрын

@Ben W probably

@kasfpg

2 жыл бұрын

Cosmic Ray sort ftw

@JohnR436

2 жыл бұрын

337 likes, nice

@AndreVanKammen

2 жыл бұрын

"But why where we able to reproduce it?" "The universe hates me!"

"coding ERROR occurred: let's run it again without changing anything" make sense now

@mattstorm360

2 жыл бұрын

Cosmic particles. Now i have an excuse.

@tinotales

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@Solkre82

2 жыл бұрын

Just reboot

@Goodpizzaa

2 жыл бұрын

"Can you crunch the numbers again" ... "crunch" .. "Did anything change?"... "No. Wait, it turns out your aren't going out of business selling paper it was cosmic rays influencing everything."

@kdavis4910

2 жыл бұрын

The only issue I see is that I remember watching documentaries a few years ago talking about some clever IT people were actively building software that had the capability of influencing election results. This isn't some crazy conspiracy theory either. It was a documentary that I watched on public TV a few years ago. I'm sure they could be found today or similar documentaries. I guess my point is that once this software exists we can never truly trust that votes won't be manipulated ever again.

I have watched almost all veritasium videos and by far this is the most well researched well made and interesting video Derek has ever made. Proud to be a fan of your work.

Best video on this channel. Nitpicky note: 16:40. An overspeed and stall CAN occur simultaneously.

Great, you guys just gave Adobe an excuse not to fix Premiere

@Saad-eq7jr

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@benty6024

2 жыл бұрын

@@Leruster i like that resolve is free, but i don’t have a stupidly powerful computer that can meet its minimum requirements, i have 2 gb of vram but resolve needs 8 or else even on 1/8 scale it’s unusably laggy edit: also my processor is a 3rd gen, dual core intel

@rikilshah

2 жыл бұрын

@@benty6024 Well, I have puny 2GB, GT1030 and Resolve works very well. At least, I can edit without much issues.

@benty6024

2 жыл бұрын

@@rikilshah wel my computer has a seizure every time i open resolve

@benty6024

2 жыл бұрын

@@kofiy which cpu do you have?

Imagine being such a good candidate that the Universe itself votes for you

@BluePiano1

2 жыл бұрын

@Sleepy Carl no, if you pay attention in the video, they said that it WASN'T because of the uranium because the computer that calculated the votes was made after intel stopped using the defective casings

@NotSoMuchFrankly

2 жыл бұрын

Aha! So the universe cheats!

@wallabra

2 жыл бұрын

The Universe is worth 4096 people, gotcha

@winninginlife

Жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking, she's probably the Best choice lol

@russellsherry7

Жыл бұрын

😄👍

I would be losing a 1v1 in a game with one of my friends and i will say: "Its the cosmic rays flipping the 0 bits again!"

I was peacefully listening to an explanation of cosmic rays messing with computers...I was half zoned out and honestly...that ending jump scared me so bad. 😂

@schwibz

7 ай бұрын

Literally just happened to me, caught me so off guard and freaked me out LOL

For us devs, this gives us hope, so when QAs file a bug that we can't replicate, we'll blame it on cosmic rays. Heck, often they themselves can't replicate it.

@lukmanabdinasir7927

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha funniest comment ever

@maki.tolentino

2 жыл бұрын

LOL'ed more than I should have hahaha

@GamesFromSpace

2 жыл бұрын

The hard part is not blaming it for everything.

@robotorfeed6806

2 жыл бұрын

Was thinking to comment this, 100% agree.

@2fifty533

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmaisalone ..?

The fact that this issue was detected by troubleshooting technicians impresses the hell out of me. Holy cow! This was such a fascinating video. Thank you!!

@levelup1279

2 жыл бұрын

If your a programmer this is pretty obvious, especially since it was a binary value. The second he said the number 4096 I instantly knew what the cause was. I wonder how many people have lost elections for the same thing happening in the other direction.

@steveunderhill5935

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you democracy

@johnnyneckar4977

2 жыл бұрын

​@@levelup1279 Yup, the second he said 4096 it was obvious, "oh, a bit got flipped". Pretty much any programmer worth their salt is going to immediately recognize any number in 2^n for n

@Arjun-jm4ll

2 жыл бұрын

@@levelup1279 alright then tell me something about it that he didn't sayin the vid.

@jayhare3375

2 жыл бұрын

@@Arjun-jm4ll Missing comma amongst a thousand lines of code 😂

Awesome video on SEU. Excellent examples to let people know what SEU can cause.

What a great Veritasium video!

“Computers work precisely because bits don’t flip unless we want them to. Or do they?” *Vsauce music intensifies*

@risingdarkness

2 жыл бұрын

Thats what i thought lol. I even said the Hello Vsauce Michael here thing

@risingdarkness

2 жыл бұрын

OR DID I?

@pramilashaktawat4429

2 жыл бұрын

♦️SERCH ADITYA RATHORE-HE ALSO MAKES INFORMATIVE CONTENT LIKE VERTASIUM

@MrSingh369

2 жыл бұрын

Same here bro😂

@MrSingh369

2 жыл бұрын

@@Soundslikemids you aren't dead..... or are you? 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶...........

Maria: The cosmos chose me, for so I am the rightful leader chosen by the universe.

@Arkantos117

2 жыл бұрын

@@mauricegoz Gave her enough publicity to win at a later date though.

@rachmawanatmajiperdana8866

2 жыл бұрын

maybe leader was not a correct term but representative

@johndoe-cx6ro

2 жыл бұрын

@@mauricegoz on the other hand the Cosmos sure loved Biden

@blucantrell2

2 жыл бұрын

@@Arkantos117 did it?

@raidev_

2 жыл бұрын

@@johndoe-cx6ro?

This is forever going to be on a mind whenever there is a bit flip fail on my dram debugging

Being in a hot air balloon above the clouds during a solar eclipse whilst pondering the nature of the universe must've been an absolutely phenomenal experience

I propose naming these cosmically-induced anomalies a "TIB", or "Tragically Inverted Bit" easily remembered since TIB is literally BIT inverted. You're welcome.

@panda4247

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@BradenBest

2 жыл бұрын

TiB also stands for Tebibyte, which is 2^40 bytes.

@elitecarlson8089

2 жыл бұрын

Sir you need a noble prize. this here is genius

@katyungodly

2 жыл бұрын

Transistor-Inverted Bit

@AloneInTheSummer

2 жыл бұрын

amazing!

"elected by people, not a particle" She can easily claim she was elected by Cosmos!

@smokayman

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if US elections had this level of investigation and integrity. I'm actually surprised the dems haven't claimed this is what happened... "Yep looks like cosmic particles account for the voter irregularities in every single county we needed to win."

@theexpatriate

2 жыл бұрын

Divine elected leaders, what could go wrong

@SvensktTroll

2 жыл бұрын

@@theexpatriate Better than the idiots we are surrounded by choosing leaders..

@musiccer7446

2 жыл бұрын

@@smokayman oh no, you are one of the Trumpies. Seriously, trump also claims fraud although he won agonist Clinton. He really is just a sore loser, just as his followers. And trust me, I don’t like the democrats either, but Trumps claims are ridiculous

@smokayman

2 жыл бұрын

@@musiccer7446 you don’t have to be a Trump supporter to see there was fraud.

Ok so, I was sitting at my office desk a while back, and this intensely blinding light hit my eyes for such a small fraction of a second that I almost thought I just imagined it. It as insanely bright for that short amount of time. Makes me wonder if it was a high energy particle.

1:30 I'm immediately throwing my hands up when that number shows on screen and saying "that's a power of two"