Latest Corrections
X Oct 17, 2026 at 09:36 PM
x.com/MAERomania/status/2111497346928230507
- Romania’s Defense Ministry said the second drone was downed at 18:05 after five minutes in Romanian airspace, not four.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 08:51 PM
x.com/WizardsMuse1/status/2111264141424124250
- 这句“三场比赛17投2中”与特雷·杨最近几场比赛的官方比赛记录对不上。按官方赛程记录，无论是算他此前三场完整比赛，还是把这场对鹈鹕算进去，都不是 2 投 17 中。
Substack Oct 17, 2026 at 08:32 PM
www.dwarkesh.com/p/bits-per-sample
- A power-law scaling relationship does not imply equal absolute FLOP increments for each 10× improvement. It implies a constant multiplicative factor in compute, so the later 10× gain generally costs more additional FLOPs than the earlier one.
- A log scale does not make equal x-axis steps correspond to the same absolute number of FLOPs under a power law. It makes them correspond to equal multiplicative changes, not equal additive compute budgets.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 07:32 PM
x.com/akarlin/status/2111476202146029940
- Reports from AP, Reuters and Axios describe a restriction or speed cap on some Starlink/Starshield functions, not a complete cutoff of Ukraine’s military access.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 07:16 PM
x.com/pronounced_kyle/status/2059700621100642649
- The 2022 Viasat incident was not a cyberattack on the KA-SAT spacecraft itself. Viasat said the intrusion hit the KA-SAT network's ground/user segments and that there was no evidence the satellite was compromised.
- The public orbital analyses available on May 22, 2026 said four Russian satellites had completed the plane-matching maneuver, not all five. A fifth satellite, Cosmos 2614, was described as only appearing to be in the middle of a similar maneuver.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 07:05 PM
x.com/bigospeedrun/status/2111251443994820914
- The reported exponent saving is wrong by about two orders of magnitude. Gonzalo Mier’s claimed bound was around κ = 0.001729776..., so the form was O(n log^(1-0.001729776...) n), not O(n log^(1-0.1) n).
Substack Oct 17, 2026 at 07:03 PM
juliawillemyns.substack.com/p/notes-from-the-bay?r=1nyhm8&ut...
- That comparison is backwards: official data put San Francisco residents’ average income well above $98,000.
- San Francisco’s overdose death toll has not stayed roughly flat; official city figures show it rose sharply over the period in question.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 04:51 PM
x.com/bayes_baes/status/2111339852432314686
- The U.S. does not currently have to buy Russian oil: U.S. imports of Russian-origin crude oil and petroleum products are prohibited, and federal energy data show no current U.S. crude imports from Russia.
Wikipedia Oct 17, 2026 at 04:27 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Guo
- This sentence mixes up two separate 2025 events. Forbes said Guo became the youngest self-made woman billionaire in April 2025 because a Scale AI tender offer valued the company at $25 billion, while Meta’s later June 2025 deal was a minority investment of about $14.3 billion, not a full purchase of Scale AI.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 01:21 PM
x.com/KatSpartz/status/2110878147625574666
- Research on psychopathy/antisocial personality in women does not support any single tactic being used by all women with the disorder. Reviews describe female psychopathy as heterogeneous, with women using a range of different manipulative or antisocial behaviors.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 01:12 PM
x.com/willchamberlain/status/2111136637245616521
- Mamdani’s Bowdoin column did not say “white women.” It said he thought “certain types of girls” were hard to talk to, and the post changes that wording.
- The paper shown in the post is not about college dating. It is a 2011 epidemiology study of preterm birth among Arab-American mothers using Michigan birth records.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 12:56 PM
x.com/DKThomp/status/2111129498963902524
- The 70% figure refers to one narrow measure—hosting friends or family at home at least monthly—not to dinner parties broadly. The cited sources say monthly dinner-party participation fell by about half from 1975 to 1998, while entertaining people at home at least once in the past year fell from 88% to 67% from 1995 to 2026.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 12:37 PM
x.com/DominaSnow/status/2111163915392688470
- This is broader than the law. The new offence is limited to pornographic images that explicitly and realistically depict penetrative sexual activity between people a reasonable person would think are related or pretending to be related in specified ways.
- This misstates the scope. The offence is not about any person who looks under 16; it is about pornographic images that explicitly and realistically depict sexual activity where at least one participant is, or is pretending to be, under 16.
LessWrong Oct 17, 2026 at 11:52 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/TbrmHshmcQMobveD3/how-can-llm-rl-wor...
- Classical Atari RL was not indifferent to off-policy or stale data. Papers on Atari and distributed RL explicitly report that stale replay can hurt performance and that actor/learner lag needs off-policy correction for stable learning.
- It is not accurate to say exact importance-sampling correction is simply “what we do in practice” for off-policy RL. Standard off-policy methods such as Q-learning do not use importance sampling in the one-step case, and many practical algorithms explicitly depart from exact IS to control variance.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 10:16 AM
x.com/MiaVasq00980410/status/2111281496237748407
- French Olympic-era safety notices warned visitors to watch out for pickpockets, not pickpockets to avoid Americans. Reporting on the drop in petty crime during Paris 2024 credited the huge police and gendarmerie presence, not Americans assaulting thieves.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM
x.com/ReddCinema/status/2111157244150923496
- Reports say she held the girl until police arrived, not until the documents/cards were returned. The purse was later left at a U.S. liaison office at Venice airport by a fleeing accomplice.
Wikipedia Oct 17, 2026 at 08:48 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft
- Blizzard did not announce a late-2027 release for The Last Titan at BlizzCon 2026. Its official recap says the game only received a 'sneak peek' and that more information will come in early 2027.
- This is outdated. Blizzard's War Mode rules state that once War Mode is enabled, all zones become contested, including starting zones like Northshire Abbey.
- This is outdated. Blizzard officially ended the WoW Trading Card Game in 2013 and said it did not expect to renew the license.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 08:27 AM
x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2111209208012210409
- Anthropic’s own release notes describe gzip as applying to large request bodies, not literally every turn. Their environment-variable reference also says compression is for large request bodies and is skipped in some configurations.
LessWrong Oct 17, 2026 at 06:46 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/8Pz2RddtmuCLjxe2s/is-there-such-a-th...
- This misstates the cited paper. The paper does not define proteins by having a well-structured 3D shape; it proposes a sequence-based computational test for whether an amino-acid sequence could be a protein.
X Oct 17, 2026 at 04:33 AM
x.com/shaesharpeshow/status/2111308734672867543
- Damian Lillard’s shooting line is overstated here. He finished the Oct. 16, 2026 game at Golden State with 23 points, 1 rebound, 2 assists, and 2-for-5 from three, not 3-for-5.
- Deni Avdija’s point total is too high here. He finished the Oct. 16, 2026 game at Golden State with 12 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 1 block — not 14 points.