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Wikipedia Mar 23, 2026 at 09:22 AM
sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipolandi
- Hii si sahihi: q, v, na x hutumiwa katika Kipolandi, hasa katika baadhi ya maneno ya asili ya kigeni na tahajia za kihistoria.
- Orodha hii si sahihi: vyanzo rasmi vya Kipolandi huorodhesha dwuznaki saba kama ch, cz, dz, dź, dż, rz, sz; "szcz" si herufi-jozi ya herufi mbili.
Wikipedia Mar 23, 2026 at 05:10 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee
- The unit name is misspelled. The U.S. Army unit was the 596th Ordnance Ammunition Company, not “Ordinance.”
- The company name is misspelled here. McAfee’s biotech startup was called QuorumEx, not “QuoromEx.”
Substack Mar 22, 2026 at 06:29 PM
newsletter.forethought.org/p/broad-timelines
- Ege Erdil is not listed as an Epoch AI co-founder in Epoch AI’s own materials. Epoch’s official founding-team announcement names seven other founders, and a 2025 Epoch author page describes Erdil as a former researcher.
Wikipedia Mar 22, 2026 at 05:54 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_black_hole
- This is outdated. The official LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA catalog includes at least one confidently detected event with a best-fit redshift above 1.
- The date is incorrect. NASA and Chandra’s public announcement of the UHZ1 result was on November 6, 2023, not November 26, 2023.
Wikipedia Mar 22, 2026 at 03:21 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah
- This dating is wrong: the term was already in use by 2009, not first coined in 2010.
- This priest-succession story is not from the Book of Enoch (1 Enoch). It belongs to 2 Enoch/Slavonic Enoch.
Wikipedia Mar 22, 2026 at 03:19 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Milne_(missionary)
- This is an anachronism. The Straits Settlements were formed in 1826, not 1815, and Malacca did not become part of that unit until then.
- Sources say Milne was ordered to leave by the Portuguese governor, reportedly under pressure from Catholic clergy; the priests themselves did not formally expel him.
Wikipedia Mar 22, 2026 at 03:17 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B1%B3%E6%86%90
- William Milne is generally described as the second Protestant missionary to China, not the second Christian missionary overall. Christian missions had reached China centuries earlier, including Jesuit Matteo Ricci in the late 1500s.
- Rachel Milne did not die in Macau. Reliable biographical sources place her death in Klebang, Malacca, on March 20, 1819.
Wikipedia Mar 22, 2026 at 01:16 AM
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Comunitaria_CETYS
- La cifra de materiales físicos al abrir la biblioteca es incorrecta. CETYS informó oficialmente al inaugurarla que su acervo bibliográfico era de 52,000 volúmenes, no de aproximadamente 20,000.
- La descripción oficial de CETYS para esa zona no coincide. La universidad la presenta como tres salas de estudio con TV para grupos de hasta 15 personas, no como tres cubículos para 12 usuarios.
Wikipedia Mar 22, 2026 at 01:14 AM
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/CETYS_Universidad
- QS Stars is a university rating/ranking system, not an accreditation.
- COPAES is not itself an accreditation granted to a university program; it recognizes accrediting bodies that carry out those accreditations.
LessWrong Mar 22, 2026 at 12:39 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/6pDMLYr7my2QMTz3s/broad-timelines
- Ege Erdil was a researcher at Epoch AI, not a co-founder. Epoch AI’s own founding announcement lists seven founders and does not include him.
LessWrong Mar 22, 2026 at 12:32 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/Psr9tnQFuEXiuqGcR/how-to-write-quick...
- Historical population estimates for major premodern empires vary much more widely than 60–80 million. Standard references list several of the largest preindustrial empires well above 80 million, including the Qing, Mughal, and Ming polities.
LessWrong Mar 22, 2026 at 12:21 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/d65Ax6vbNgztBE8cy/new-lesswrong-feat...
- The feature did reveal non-match interest signals: users received a "New users interested in dialoguing with you (not a match yet)" notification before matching.
LessWrong Mar 21, 2026 at 11:51 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZB7Hez6bJiZvCAAA2/theories-of-pain
- Fascia is not a substance that switches between liquid and solid states. It is connective tissue; anatomy sources describe it as collagen-rich fibrous tissue, with a separate lubricating liquid between fascial layers.
LessWrong Mar 21, 2026 at 11:18 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/bZ2w99pEAeAbKnKqo/optimal-exercise
- Women do have testosterone; they typically just have much lower levels than men.
- Later meta-analysis evidence found resistance-training gains continuing up to about 1.62 g/kg/day, which is roughly 0.73 g/lb—not 0.64 g/lb.
LessWrong Mar 21, 2026 at 11:13 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zz986H9P3WJoh5DNb/the-dark-arts-a-be...
- Research reviews on NLP's "predicate matching" idea have not found that mirroring a person's visual/auditory wording reliably increases influence or rapport.
LessWrong Mar 21, 2026 at 10:56 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/sP2Hg6uPwpfp3jZJN/lost-purposes
- This overstates physics publishing norms. Physics journals do publish papers reporting effects with much weaker significance than p<0.0001, and even particle physics' famous 5-sigma rule is a discovery convention, not a blanket journal requirement.
LessWrong Mar 21, 2026 at 10:53 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/reitXJgJXFzKpdKyd/beware-trivial-inc...
- China’s internet censorship has never removed *all* politically sensitive content. Credible reporting and later large-scale research both describe it as selective and incomplete, with some criticism and dissident material remaining accessible.
LessWrong Mar 21, 2026 at 10:47 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/kxW6q5YdTGWh5sWby/eight-hundred-slig...
- This overstates the difference. Reported CO2 levels in submarines and spacecraft are usually only a few times higher than ordinary indoor air, not 10–100× higher, and submarine averages can overlap common civilian exposure limits.
Wikipedia Mar 21, 2026 at 09:42 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool
- This is incorrect: English sources used the word "maelstrom" centuries before Poe. Major dictionaries date its first known English use to 1588 and describe Poe as helping popularize it, not coin it.
- This widely repeated figure is wrong. Credible university sources describe Lake Peigneur after the disaster as about 200 feet deep, not 1,300 feet deep.
- These casualty counts are far too high. Credible accounts of the Lake Peigneur disaster report 11 barges and one tugboat being swallowed, not 19 barges and 8 tugboats.
- The speed figure here is overstated. Norwegian reference and oceanographic sources describe Moskstraumen at roughly 6 knots (about 11 km/h) to 5 m/s (about 18 km/h), not 32 km/h.
LessWrong Mar 21, 2026 at 06:45 PM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/ybwcxBRrsKavJB9Wz/no-we-haven-t-uplo...
- Shiu et al.'s 2024 model was not a full model of every neuron and connection in the adult fly brain. The paper says it was built from the adult Drosophila central brain connectome and modeled about 127,400 neurons, whereas the whole-brain FlyWire connectome contains 139,255 neurons.