[willis936]

I find the acronym unfortunate because it overloads a previously unique acronym in an adjacent space. It costs nothing to avoid these issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_error_rate#Bit_error_rate_...

[xpe]

> It costs nothing to avoid these issues.

No. There are at least two kinds of costs. First, It takes time to search 'adjacent' domains. Second, by reducing your available acronyms/initialisms, you make it harder to map your architecture name onto those letters.

It is fun to think of some of the alternative BERT names that "could have been", such as BIDET = BIDirectional Encoder representations from Transformers.

[ooterness]

Yes, I visited this thread hoping for BERT software that can find memory errors, either due to radiation upset or signal integrity issues.

Now my disappointment is immeassurable and my day is ruined.

[willis936]

If your computer is a Xilinx MPSoC there is IBERT. It's a pretty awesome concept.