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Distributed Systems + Frontier Safety/Interp · Week 23 · Day 6/7
DAY 160 / 210

Foundations of Distributed Systems Safety

This day launches the distsys-safety phase by establishing core safety invariants that underpin reliable large-scale AI infrastructure; understanding these prevents cascading failures in production systems Maku will encounter when scaling StartupTribunal.

50 min target📝 2 quiz Qs

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Deliverable

200-word journal entry summarizing two safety properties and one real-world violation example

Quiz · 2 questions

1. Which property guarantees that a distributed system never produces incorrect results even under faults?

2. Name one common misconception when applying the CAP theorem to AI serving systems.

Journal