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LessWrong Apr 14, 2026 at 04:37 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/LqsctjJbk5HHPD4Jm/the-math-and-the-t...
- The article cited here was written by Joel Best, not John Best.
Wikipedia Apr 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2000
- Office 2000 did not have a single suite-wide default font. Word 2000 used Times New Roman 10 pt by default, but Excel 2000 used Arial 10 pt.
- Office 2000's anti-piracy registration was not Internet-only. Microsoft said users could complete it by Internet, e-mail, postal mail, fax, or telephone.
- Microsoft's June 7, 1999 launch announcement says Office 2000 would reach retail later that week, on June 10, 1999 — not June 7.
Wikipedia Apr 14, 2026 at 12:43 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_95
- Office 95 was not limited to Windows NT. Microsoft's own minimum requirements say Office 7.0 runs on either Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or later.
- Microsoft's system requirements do not say Office 95 required only Windows NT 3.51. They list Windows 95 or Windows NT Workstation 3.51 or later.
- Microsoft's requirements split RAM by operating system: 8 MB was for Windows 95, while Windows NT Workstation needed 16 MB to run two Office programs.
Wikipedia Apr 14, 2026 at 12:42 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_97
- This list omits Office 97 VAR Edition. Microsoft itself announced VAR Edition as an additional Office 97 edition, so the suite was released in more than the five editions named here.
- The article names only two applications, not three: Word and Excel. The pinball game and the developer-credits sequence are both in Word 97, while the flight simulator is in Excel 97.
- Microsoft announced Office 98 Macintosh Edition on January 6, 1998, but said broad availability would come later. The official press release says it was unveiled that day and expected to be widely available in March 1998.
Wikipedia Apr 14, 2026 at 04:59 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_literacy
- This ministry name is wrong. The Polish ministry is the Ministry of National Education, and the study described here says it was commissioned by that ministry.
- This institution name is incorrect. The U.S. library’s official name is the National Library of Medicine.
- The school name is misspelled here. Official Kerala government records list the school as St Aloysius HSS Kollam, not “St Aloysious.”
X Apr 14, 2026 at 03:36 AM
x.com/justalexoki/status/2043797557118177652
- This sentence is false because it treats "Jews control the world" as a real fact. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum explicitly says claims that Jews control parts or all of the world are antisemitic conspiracy theories and "None of these accusations are true."
Substack Apr 13, 2026 at 09:24 PM
metatrends.substack.com/p/proof-of-abundance-and-how-to-surv...
- The cited numbers are not the price of a whole battery. They are lithium-ion battery-cell prices per kilowatt-hour, so the article drops the unit and changes the meaning.
- Pakistan is not getting most of its energy from solar. Recent credible estimates put solar at roughly one-fifth of Pakistan's electricity, not a majority of its energy supply.
Substack Apr 13, 2026 at 09:19 PM
metatrends.substack.com/p/the-moon-had-it-coming-when-ai-tur...
- China led the world in 2025 solar additions, but it did not install twice as much as the rest of the world combined.
X Apr 13, 2026 at 07:48 PM
x.com/sterlingcrispin/status/2043398710013595857?s=46
- The bot does not buy "No" on every non-sports market. Its own code filters heavily and only enters some standalone yes/no markets when the NO ask is at or below a configured price cap.
X Apr 13, 2026 at 06:12 PM
x.com/toolfolio/status/2040016472861532453
- Screenity’s own policies say it does collect some data in several cases, including account info, crash logs, and paid/cloud features.
X Apr 13, 2026 at 06:06 PM
x.com/toolfolio/status/2040016472861532453
- Screenity’s own privacy policy says it does collect some data in several cases, so “no data collection” is too absolute.
X Apr 13, 2026 at 05:19 PM
x.com/Polymarket/status/2043716512800776222?s=20
- The shipping-data reports on April 13 identified the tanker that turned back as a vessel headed to load Iraqi crude for Vietnam, not a China-bound tanker. Other vessel-tracking reports the same weekend showed China-bound tankers successfully transiting Hormuz.
Wikipedia Apr 12, 2026 at 10:22 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
- The HMD Barbie Phone is not a KaiOS device. HMD’s own specs list its operating system as S30+, and the launch press release describes the U.S. version as the same phone coming later.
- KaiOS’s own developer documentation says the OS is forked from B2G, the successor to Firefox OS — not from Android. KaiOS documents describe Gonk as a lower layer in the stack, not the source project KaiOS was forked from.
- WebP is not a video codec. It is an image format, so this phrase incorrectly classifies WebP alongside AV1 as a video codec.
- KaiOS was publicly on devices before October 2017. KaiOS’s own device pages show the Alcatel GO FLIP 2 launched with KaiOS 1.0 in April 2017.
Wikipedia Apr 12, 2026 at 08:54 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihertz_Jelly_series
- This overgeneralizes the series. At least one Jelly model, the Jelly Pro, does not have a programmable key.
Wikipedia Apr 12, 2026 at 06:17 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_v._Minnesota
- The argument date is off by one year. The official U.S. Reports syllabus lists Near v. Minnesota as argued on January 30, 1931, not January 30, 1930.
Wikipedia Apr 12, 2026 at 12:43 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_China
- Harbin’s area code is 0451 (often written as 451 domestically), not 4511.
- Kaifeng’s area code is 0371/371, not 3711.
- Xinyang’s area code is 0376/376, not 3762.
- Suzhou’s area code is 0512/512, not 5121.
- Yanbian’s area code is 0433/433, not 4331.
- Pu’er’s area code is 0879/879, not 87930.
X Apr 12, 2026 at 03:57 AM
x.com/dearmadisonblue/status/2043073072505159695
- This oversimplifies the scaling evidence: canonical LLM scaling-law papers report power-law relationships with compute, not a general rule that performance equals log(compute).
X Apr 12, 2026 at 03:53 AM
x.com/firstadopter/status/2043009456103993426
- The public record does not show Dario Amodei naming OpenAI in those remarks. In the DealBook interview he declined to identify any company, and on the Dwarkesh podcast he referred only to unnamed “other players” or “other companies.”
X Apr 12, 2026 at 03:51 AM
x.com/jeffreyleefunk/status/2042805247010349295
- The '198 manual reviews' figure is not the total human review behind Anthropic's zero-day reports. Anthropic says it manually validates every bug report before sending it to maintainers; 198 was only the sample used to compare human severity ratings with the model's ratings.
X Apr 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
x.com/For_Film_Fans/status/2042892927001608318/photo/1
- The Xavier High School assignment was to write to favorite authors and invite them to visit the school, not to ask them for advice.