Notre Dame Fire “Computer Glitch”
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 6 months ago
The cathedral’s rector said a “computer glitch” may have played a role in the rapidly spreading blaze that devastated the 850-year-old architectural masterpiece.
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Paris police investigators said they believe an electrical short-circuit most likely caused the fire. It’s believed to be one of multiple leads being investigated.
Um … what? A “computer glitch” isn’t an electrical short. The two are very different things. So if you think this is all from a “computer glitch,” send the coding our way. I have readers who understand C++, and I can code in FORTRAN. I think we can help.
I’m not getting that good warm fuzzy feeling that they’re taking this seriously and being forthcoming and honest about it.
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On April 22, 2019 at 5:15 am, Matt said:
Maybe something got lost in translation….
On April 22, 2019 at 10:25 am, Van said:
Well that explains it, those 9th and 10th century computers systems always were a bit twitchy! :)
On April 22, 2019 at 11:13 am, Frank Clarke said:
@Van: The cornerstone of Notre Dame was laid in 1163 (12th century) and I am CERTAIN that whatever glitches might have existed in 10th-century computers had been well and thoroughly debugged by then. Further, the whole magilla wasn’t completed until well into the 1300s (14th century), so Moore’s Law (technology doubles in 20 years) requires that HUGE advances (on the order of 250x) would have made computers then-in-use far more capable.
So there! ;-)
On April 22, 2019 at 11:56 am, J J said:
“It’s believed to be one of multiple leads being investigated.”
Well, I’d bet that one of the leads NOT being investigated is which religion of peace may be the cause of the fire.
On April 22, 2019 at 10:20 pm, Chris Mallory said:
I haven’t followed this story real close, but I did read something about a supposed computer glitch in the fire detector system. Supposedly, the system was misreading temperatures and sent the firemen to the wrong section of the building.