Latest Corrections
Wikipedia Oct 12, 2026 at 02:37 PM
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000
- To zdanie miesza kilka różnych osób. Brytyjski aktor Nigel Davenport czytał kwestie HAL-a na planie, „cockney” należał do asystenta reżysera, a właściwe wcześniejsze nagranie głosu HAL-a wykonał amerykański aktor Martin Balsam.
Wikipedia Oct 12, 2026 at 02:37 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000
- This sentence misidentifies the machine and date. Authoritative histories attribute the famous "Daisy Bell" speech-synthesis demo to Bell Labs' IBM 704 or IBM 7094, and IBM's 7090 had already been delivered in 1959—not unveiled in 1961.
- This title is historically wrong. MIT says CSAIL was created in 2003; Minsky co-founded MIT's AI Lab and served as AI Lab director from 1970 to 1972, not as director of CSAIL.
Substack Oct 12, 2026 at 01:05 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-on-the-marble-clif...
- The dating here is off: scholarship places the writing of *On the Marble Cliffs* in 1939, not 1938.
- That blanket statement is too strong: a 1942 special edition of the book was in fact printed for the German Army.
Substack Oct 12, 2026 at 01:01 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/consciousness-as-recursive-reflecti...
- This misdescribes fMRI. Standard MRI is used for detailed anatomical images, but fMRI measures short-timescale changes in blood oxygenation/blood flow associated with brain activity.
X Oct 12, 2026 at 12:08 PM
x.com/EYakoby/status/2109520626528469081
- The Cloudflare chart being cited is not a measure of Russian social-media bots. It tracks likely automated HTTP requests from Yandex’s network to sites behind Cloudflare, and Cloudflare explicitly treats Yandexbot as a verified search-engine crawler.
Wikipedia Oct 12, 2026 at 12:07 PM
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omegapro
- The available primary and first-party sources place OmegaPro’s start in early 2019, not 2018.
Wikipedia Oct 12, 2026 at 09:48 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodynamic_therapy
- The year is wrong. FDA records show porfimer sodium (Photofrin) was approved in the U.S. in 1995, not 1994, for palliative treatment of obstructing esophageal cancer.
- The U.S. FDA date is off by a year. The official U.S. label for Visudyne lists its initial U.S. approval as 2000, not 1999.
Wikipedia Oct 12, 2026 at 09:34 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Park_Geun-hye
- This timeline is too late. The Constitutional Court had 180 days to decide, and South Korea’s Constitution requires a successor to be elected within 60 days of a presidential vacancy, so the latest possible handover would have been in early August 2017, not October 2017.
Wikipedia Oct 12, 2026 at 09:32 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Geun-hye
- Moon Jae-in criticized the 2015 comfort women deal, but his government explicitly said it would not renegotiate, scrap, or terminate the agreement.
- Park Geun-hye's final prison term was 22 years, not 25 years.
Wikipedia Oct 12, 2026 at 09:32 AM
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Geun-hye
- To zdanie błędnie sugeruje, że Park Chung-hee został wybrany prezydentem 15 października 1961 r. W rzeczywistości powszechne wybory prezydenckie wygrał dopiero 15 października 1963 r., po okresie rządów junty wojskowej.
- To zdanie podaje złą datę i upraszcza przebieg sprawy. W 2019 r. nie zapadł 22-letni wyrok; po decyzjach Sądu Najwyższego z 2019 r. sprawę skierowano do ponownego rozpoznania, a 20-letni wyrok w sprawie korupcyjnej zapadł w lipcu 2020 r.; razem z osobnym 2-letnim wyrokiem dawało to 22 lata.
Wikipedia Oct 12, 2026 at 09:31 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Soon-sil
- The fine amount here is wrong. The Supreme Court finalized a 20 billion won fine and about 6.3 billion won confiscation, not a 26.3 billion won fine.
Wikipedia Oct 12, 2026 at 09:13 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitizer
- Chlorophyll a and b are not organometallic in the standard chemical sense. They are magnesium coordination compounds, and organometallic compounds require a direct metal–carbon bond.
- This is contradicted by pre-1960 literature. A 1959 Nature paper already uses the word “photosensitizer” in its abstract.
- The date is wrong. The clinical use of eosin plus light for skin tumors was reported in 1903; 1907 is associated with the term “photodynamic action,” not the first tumor treatment report.
X Oct 12, 2026 at 09:10 AM
x.com/nypost/status/2109324953170636831
- The timeline is backwards: reporting based on police records and the victim’s account says her serious symptoms began long before the hidden-camera footage captured the poisoning.
X Oct 12, 2026 at 09:01 AM
x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2109456549957533907
- Bell did study keypad layouts, but Bell’s own published research did not find one single “exact best” number pattern. The study reported no significant performance difference among five finalist layouts.
X Oct 12, 2026 at 08:15 AM
x.com/cjhandmer/status/2109279208921047296?s=46&t=fSypFxt84b...
- Published papers are routinely corrected after publication through formal errata/correction processes. Major publishers and COPE explicitly provide mechanisms for post-publication corrections, including typo corrections in some cases.
X Oct 12, 2026 at 08:06 AM
x.com/jurgen_nauditt/status/2109537730275299345
- This overstates what Yandex said. The company said it limited some Yandex.Disk and Yandex 360 functions to reduce load; it did not say Yandex.Disk was fully shut down.
X Oct 11, 2026 at 11:36 PM
x.com/hexprax/status/2109329820266233995
- This is too absolute. Zoos do sometimes use lethal force in life-threatening attacks, and accredited facilities are expected to have trained, authorized response personnel rather than relying on a "random zoo employee."
X Oct 11, 2026 at 11:26 PM
x.com/dwlz/status/2109083027556962307
- All Souls usually elects two Examination Fellows, but not literally every year. The college says it "normally" elects two, and it canceled the 2020 examination altogether.
X Oct 11, 2026 at 11:26 PM
x.com/ohabryka/status/2109319680238424317
- This overstates EAGx policy. Official EAGx event pages show multiple EAGx conferences explicitly hosting evening programming and networking, so EAGx events are not categorically forbidden from holding evening events.
Substack Oct 11, 2026 at 10:02 PM
www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/the-shape-of-a-thought
- This is too absolute. Human neuroscience has identified highly selective "concept cells" and also specific semantic hubs such as the anterior temporal lobe, so ideas are not only represented in fully distributed, region-unspecific ways.
- This universal claim is too strong. Biological learning is not all one prediction-error mechanism: neuroscience also documents core Hebbian, spike-timing-dependent, and homeostatic learning rules that are described separately from explicit expectation-vs-outcome error learning.