Latest Corrections
Wikipedia Jul 25, 2026 at 09:28 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox
- This is outdated: Tim Regan is no longer Dropbox’s CFO. Dropbox announced in December 2025 that Ross Tennenbaum succeeded him as CFO effective December 16, 2025.
- Dropbox’s May 2026 leadership filing identifies Ashraf Alkarmi as General Manager, Core—not the company’s chief product officer.
- Dropbox did appoint Mike Torres as chief product officer, but not as a replacement for Alkarmi in that role. Dropbox’s filing says Alkarmi’s role was General Manager, Core.
- This overstates Dropbox’s inactivity policy. Dropbox says inactivity deletion applies to Dropbox Basic accounts, is based on 12 months without logins or file activity, and happens only after email notices and reminders.
Substack Jul 25, 2026 at 09:05 PM
andrewjohnson95.substack.com/p/did-john-adams-support-a-coup
- Jay did respond to Hamilton’s proposal—he rejected it in a note written on Hamilton’s letter itself.
- McKean’s letter describes several separate contingency measures; it does not say he approved one resolution authorizing 20,000 militiamen to arrest and try people.
- Jefferson did not preside whenever the Senate was in session during this period: John E. Howard served as president pro tempore in November 1800, and James Hillhouse was elected president pro tempore on February 28, 1801.
- This quote is garbled. Sedgwick’s actual sentence referred to ‘our commercial & other national systems’ and said Burr would ‘not only patronize their support but their invigoration.’
Substack Jul 25, 2026 at 09:03 PM
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- This is incorrect: customs officers using writs of assistance could be liable in trespass damages if they searched and found nothing.
- This misdescribes the Sugar Act. It was a revenue measure, but it operated through customs duties on imported goods—an external tax, not a direct internal tax.
- The July 1–2 vote was not on a finalized Declaration of Independence. Congress voted on the Lee Resolution for independence; the Declaration text was revised afterward and adopted on July 4, 1776.
- The British casualty figure here is substantially too high. The National Park Service gives British casualties at 1,054, not 1,500.
- This overstates the expiration rule. The 1761 writs of assistance remained valid until six months after the sovereign's death, not merely until the moment of death.
Substack Jul 25, 2026 at 09:03 PM
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- Blaine’s 1876 congressional investigation was not about Crédit Mobilier. House records show the 1876 inquiry concerned railroad-bond allegations and the Mulligan letters, while Blaine had earlier been the Speaker who created the Crédit Mobilier investigation committee.
- The death toll at Hamburg was not “dozens.” Authoritative histories put the massacre at about seven deaths: six Black men and one white man.
- The Constitution’s contingent-election procedure is in the Twelfth Amendment, not Article II, Section 1. Article II’s original presidential-election framework was changed in 1804.
- David Davis was not appointed to the Senate. He won election to the Senate from Illinois, as senators were then chosen by state legislatures.
Wikipedia Jul 25, 2026 at 08:40 PM
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- The count is off by one: seven Republicans who had co-sponsored the Conrad-Gregg proposal later voted against it, not six.
- This gets the revenue cap wrong. The Simpson-Bowles plan capped revenue at 21 percent of GDP, not 20 percent.
- Both names are misspelled here. The senators were Michael Bennet of Colorado and Mike Johanns of Nebraska.
Wikipedia Jul 25, 2026 at 07:42 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernizing_Medicine
- Daniel Cane co-founded Blackboard, but he was not its CEO; Blackboard’s SEC filings identify Michael Chasen as CEO, and FAU describes Cane’s role there as senior vice president of R&D.
Wikipedia Jul 25, 2026 at 07:28 PM
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- Das ist zu pauschal. Der BGH hat 2025 entschieden, dass § 569 Abs. 2a BGB nicht für jede Art von Mietsicherheit gilt: Bei einer vereinbarten Bankbürgschaft ist eine fristlose Kündigung nach dieser Vorschrift gerade nicht möglich.
- Der Rückzahlungsanspruch wird nicht erst durch den Zugang einer Kautionsabrechnung fällig. Nach der BGH-Rechtsprechung kommt es auf den Ablauf einer angemessenen Prüfungsfrist und darauf an, ob dem Vermieter noch gesicherte Ansprüche zustehen.
Substack Jul 25, 2026 at 04:25 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/contra-pritchard-on-liberal-happine...
- Those multipliers are too high. Using Maddison-compatible historical GDP-per-capita figures, current U.S. output per person is roughly 78× the world in 1 CE and about 87× Western Europe in 1000 CE, not ~225×.
Substack Jul 25, 2026 at 04:19 PM
www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-hugging-face-incident/comments
- Anthropic did not claim it could literally read Claude’s internal thoughts in real time. Its NLA/activation-verbalizer method produces approximate text explanations of activations, and Anthropic explicitly warns those explanations can be wrong or hallucinatory.
Wikipedia Jul 25, 2026 at 07:10 AM
zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BE%8D%E6%8E%9B
- This overgeneralizes waterspouts. NOAA says waterspouts come in two types: fair-weather waterspouts, which form upward from the surface, and tornadic waterspouts, which develop downward in thunderstorms and can be as dangerous as land tornadoes.
- The 1054 tornado record was not in England at Kilpeck. Meteorological references place the earliest known European/British Isles tornado at Rosdalla, County Westmeath, Ireland, while the earliest known UK tornado is London in 1091.
Wikipedia Jul 25, 2026 at 07:08 AM
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- 哈得遜灣約100公尺是常見的平均深度，不是最大深度；其最深處明顯超過100公尺。
- 1821年的合併方向寫反了：是西北公司與哈得遜灣公司合併後沿用「哈得遜灣公司」之名，不是哈得遜灣公司併入西北公司。
- 五萬多是西哈得遜灣白鯨整體族群的量級，不是丘吉爾河口單一河口聚集的數量；官方資料指峰值常見約3,000至5,000頭。
Wikipedia Jul 25, 2026 at 07:06 AM
zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%85%95%E5%B0%BC%E9%BB%91
- 慕尼黑海拔約五百多公尺，不是「五百有餘丈」。官方資料顯示其城域最高點為519公尺、最低點為482公尺。
Wikipedia Jul 25, 2026 at 07:06 AM
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- 把機遇號與好奇號並列為靠塵旋掃塵而延壽，與 NASA 資料不符。好奇號並非太陽能車，而是以 MMRTG 核電源供電；延長機遇號壽命的清塵效應也發生在太陽能板，不是日晷。
- 「扶搖直上」的語源並不在《史記》陳勝故事。教育部辭典把這個成語明確溯源到《莊子·逍遙遊》，而《史記·陳涉世家》所載陳勝事跡也不見此語。
Wikipedia Jul 25, 2026 at 07:05 AM
zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A1%9B%E8%A9%B9%E7%BE%8E
- Jimmy Wales did receive an Electronic Frontier Foundation award, but the official EFF winners list shows he received it in 2006, not 2008.
- The Millennium Technology Prize’s official records do not list Jimmy Wales as a winner. They show Linus Torvalds was a 2012 laureate, jointly with Shinya Yamanaka—not with Jimmy Wales in 2015.
Wikipedia Jul 25, 2026 at 07:03 AM
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- 這裡把鐵達尼號最後的下沉階段提早了約兩小時。官方記錄顯示，12:15 時鐵達尼號才剛發出遇險訊號；它是在約 2:20 a.m. 才沉沒，船艏深陷、船艉高舉屬於接近終沉前的最後時刻。
- 「九十公尺長的大裂口」是流傳很久的說法，但現代調查已否定。NIST 整理的聲納研究指出，船殼受損是六條狹長裂縫，總開口面積約 1 平方公尺，而不是單一 90 公尺長裂口。
Wikipedia Jul 25, 2026 at 06:45 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_Wenfeng
- The year is wrong here: this January 2025 symposium concerned the draft 2025 government work report, not an 'annual 2024 government work report.'
- This sentence conflates DeepSeek-R1 with DeepSeek-V3. The 2,048-H800 / ~$5.6 million figure refers to V3’s training, not to R1 itself, and even that figure covered only the final pretraining run rather than the full development cost.
- This misattributes the Nvidia-to-China chip restrictions to Trump. The key A800/H800 export curbs cited in DeepSeek coverage were imposed under the Biden administration in October 2023.
Substack Jul 25, 2026 at 06:17 AM
freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/llms-were-mostly-but-not-entire...
- This overstates the case. By 2026 there were already empirical and model-based studies on AI’s labor-market effects, so the prediction was not supported only by “raw assertion,” even if the evidence remained uncertain and contested.
X Jul 25, 2026 at 06:12 AM
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- DeepSeek-V3 did use NVIDIA’s broader ecosystem during training. DeepSeek’s own V3-related training stack relied on NVIDIA-specific technologies including CUDA, NVLink, NVSHMEM, and Hopper/PTX support.
X Jul 25, 2026 at 06:11 AM
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- This is too absolute. Credible 2025–2026 sources report that leading Chinese domestic AI chips still have major hardware/performance limitations and software-ecosystem problems, not just production-capacity constraints.
Wikipedia Jul 25, 2026 at 05:34 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_Valley
- British Columbia’s official geographical names database places Kettle Valley on the north side of the Kettle River, not the south side.