[ExI] so many kinds of race, was: very informative

[Mike Dougherty]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 2:10 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 2020-12-28 19:59, Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat wrote:
> > Though humans frequently do express their situation as a "rat race" and
> > some close competitions are "neck and neck" as in horse races.  We have
> > previously discussed car races, but I think those who know better refer
> > to them as "make and model"  Tachycardia can make your heart race.
> > Perhaps less exciting to some, the channel for a set of ball bearings is
> > also a race.
>
> I think a millrace is the channel that brings water to a drive wheel?
>
> And then the kind of race that I learned about in ... ah, I forget what
> the class was called that covered gate logic.  Sometimes a change in one
> input can cause two or more "simultaneous" changes of internal state
> bits, but nothing is ever truly simultaneous and a variation in the
> speed of propagation of signals can lead to randomness if you're not
> careful.
> So what's that called, a logic race?
>

"Race condition"

I didn't think that domain of use was common enough to mention.

h/t fellow CS nerd :)

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