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Wikipedia Mar 14, 2026 at 07:24 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares
- This is incorrect: parts of Antarctica lie north of 64°S, so Antares is not circumpolar everywhere on the continent.
Substack Mar 14, 2026 at 01:55 AM
www.latent.space/p/ainews-the-high-return-activity-of
- OpenAI’s GPT-3 was introduced as a 175B-parameter model family; the official paper describes the flagship GPT-3 as 175B and does not define a 'GPT-3 120B' model.
Substack Mar 14, 2026 at 01:53 AM
www.latent.space/p/ainews-sci-fi-with-a-touch-of-madness
- Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s model, not Andon Labs’. Andon Labs built the Vending-Bench evaluation where the model was tested.
- Neuronpedia is not an Anthropic product. It is run by Decode Research / Johnny Lin, though Anthropic has collaborated with it on some interpretability tooling.
- Neuronpedia is not made by Anthropic. It is operated by Decode Research and created by Johnny Lin, though Anthropic has collaborated with it.
Wikipedia Mar 14, 2026 at 01:25 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unicorn_startup_companies
- Klaviyo is no longer a private unicorn startup. It became a public company in 2023, so it should not appear in the current list of privately held unicorns.
- Wolt did not exit in September 2021. DoorDash announced the acquisition on November 9, 2021 and completed it on June 1, 2022.
- MuleSoft did not exit in March 2015. Its SEC filing says it completed its IPO on March 17, 2017, and Salesforce announced the acquisition in March 2018.
- The founder's name is misspelled. Colossal's own company page identifies the co-founder as George Church, not 'George Churchm.'
Wikipedia Mar 14, 2026 at 12:37 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_rule
- This formula drops the composition symbol. The chain rule gives the derivative of the composite at a, `(f∘g)'(a)`, not a derivative of the single value `f(g(a))`.
- Euler's main analysis books were written in 1745, 1748, and 1763, which are 69, 72, and 87 years after 1676—not over 100 years later.
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo
- This is too absolute: sudo access does not require membership in a special group. The sudo policy can authorize individual users directly, or groups, via the sudoers policy.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 10:35 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/FCMfToFnRXhsfpfQB/book-review-why-ar...
- NCES data show K–12 administrative staffing did not 'barely budge.' School district administrative staff roughly doubled from 78,784 in 1980 to 155,273 in 2015.
- This overstates the evidence. NCES/NAEP data show several major national reading and math scores improved over the long term, rather than staying flat overall.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 10:35 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/934fcvQDM6XJhopLi/pecking-order-and-...
- This is too broad: some biblical prophets did hold privileged court positions. Daniel is explicitly called a prophet in Matthew 24:15, and the Book of Daniel says he was promoted, given many gifts, made ruler over Babylon, and remained in the king’s court.
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 09:37 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiz,_Inc.
- The dates and investor details are wrong. Wiz announced the $130 million round on March 22, 2021, not April, and said it was led by Advent International with Greenoaks; the extra $120 million closed in June 2021, not May, from Salesforce Ventures and Blackstone with Aglaé Ventures.
- Wiz's own Series C announcement says the round was co-led by Insight Partners and Greenoaks Capital, not led by Greenoaks alone.
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 08:50 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Recent taxonomic literature puts Scoliidae at roughly 560 species worldwide, not around 300.
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 08:36 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_impedance_tomography
- The CRADL study was not a study of “more than 200 premature infants.” The published multicenter study enrolled 200 patients ranging from 25 weeks postmenstrual age to 36 months, including neonates and young children, for monitoring up to 72 hours.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:32 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/bs3yj8vLDKNnoa95m/five-recent-ai-tut...
- The paper says the lesson-specific system prompts and solutions were prepared over a few days, not several months. The “several months” figure refers to building the broader AI tutor platform.
Wikipedia Mar 13, 2026 at 08:30 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptamer
- Alexa Fluor 594 is normally excited by visible light around 590 nm, not ultraviolet light.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:29 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/TzwMfRArgsNscHocX/the-incredible-fen...
- That is too absolute. Standard electrical impedance tomography often uses contact electrodes, but contactless impedance and dielectric spectroscopy methods also exist using capacitive coupling.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:29 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/MoF426vqQFmuwwnFf/bigger-livers
- The cited follistatin gene-therapy study was done in adult rats, not mice. Its abstract says adenoviral follistatin enlarged the livers of adult male rats to 146% of control without significant dysfunction.
- The cited Yap/Taz knockout paper reported liver adenomas, not liver cancers. It explicitly says the mice did not have hepatocellular carcinoma or cholangiocarcinoma.
- This is too categorical: human studies do report larger kidneys in obesity, and studies also report larger liver volumes in obese patients. So big livers/kidneys are not unique to athletes.
- The cited IL-6 hepatomegaly paper was done in mice, not rats. Its title and abstract both describe systemic IL-6 administration causing liver enlargement in nude mice.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:25 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/gk2aJgg7yzzTXp8HJ/to-understand-hist...
- This population figure is far too low. UN Data lists Ethiopia's 2025 population at 135.472 million, not 110 million.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:24 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/evakCi7A7Yqb3F8qi/the-dream-machine
- This mixes up two different eras of CFF funding. The first CF drugs were approved before the Foundation adopted its venture-philanthropy model in 1998–2000.
- AT&T was dominant, but it was not the only U.S. telephone provider. Thousands of independent telephone companies operated in the early 1900s.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:24 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/kipMvuaK3NALvFHc9/what-an-actually-p...
- Credible public assessments from the IAEA and the U.S. intelligence community say Iran’s organized nuclear-weapons program halted around 2003, contradicting the claim of continuous covert weapons development over ~20 years.
Substack Mar 13, 2026 at 08:15 PM
austinvernon.substack.com/p/speed-can-reindustrialize-americ...
- This overstates South Korea’s annual shipbuilding output. Recent South Korean output is about 21.2 million DWT, while U.S. World War II merchant shipbuilding totaled over 56 million deadweight tons.
- Recent U.S. steel output is well below 100 million tons. Major industry and government sources put it around 80–88 million tons per year, not above 100 million.
LessWrong Mar 13, 2026 at 08:05 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZyXdwmBKnuTZ5CL7W/things-that-go-boo...
- JASSM-ER is not an anti-ship missile. AGM-158B JASSM-ER is the extended-range land-attack version of JASSM; the anti-ship derivative in this family is AGM-158C LRASM.