Cosmic rays flipping bits

1 · John Cook · May 20, 2019, 11:58 p.m.
A cosmic ray striking computer memory at just the right time can flip a bit, turning a 0 into a 1 or vice versa. While I knew that cosmic ray bit flips were a theoretical possibility, I didn’t know until recently that there had been documented instances on the ground. Radiolab did an episode on […]...