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Wikipedia Aug 24, 2026 at 03:18 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechatronics
- Yaskawa’s own history says the trademark was applied for in 1969 and registered in 1972, not 1971. A later technical review also indicates that “46-32714” is a trademark gazette number, not the final registration number.
Wikipedia Aug 24, 2026 at 03:18 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot
- Karel Čapek popularized the word in R.U.R., but he did not coin it; Čapek himself credited his brother Josef Čapek as the word’s originator.
- The year is wrong. Su Song’s famous astronomical clock tower is dated to 1088 (with related publication/completion dates in the 1090s), not 1066.
- This is outdated. Current International Federation of Robotics data says China, not Japan, has the world’s largest operational robot stock.
- This is historically inaccurate. Karel Čapek was born in 1890 in Austria-Hungary; Czechoslovakia was not founded until 1918.
Wikipedia Aug 24, 2026 at 03:18 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics
- This sentence misdefines forward and inverse kinematics. Forward kinematics maps joint values to the end-effector pose, while inverse kinematics solves for joint values that achieve a desired end-effector pose.
- This overstates what airliner autopilots normally do. Commercial airliners routinely use autopilot in flight and can autoland in some conditions, but automatic takeoff is not standard in-service autopilot capability.
Wikipedia Aug 24, 2026 at 03:13 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat
- This language count is outdated. WeChat’s current App Store listing says the app supports English plus 24 more languages, i.e. 25 total.
- This is an outdated iOS version number. WeChat’s official App Store listing now shows a much newer iOS release.
- This Android stable-release entry is outdated. Google Play shows WeChat was updated in 2026 and references a newer V8.0.69 release.
- This figure is off by at least an order of magnitude. Tencent materials from 2015 report roughly 8–10 million WeChat official accounts, not 100 million+.
- This misdescribes Mini Programs. WeChat’s official App Store listing says Mini Programs do not require additional installation.
Substack Aug 24, 2026 at 03:07 AM
samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let-ai-do-your-writing-i-will
- OpenAI said an internal reasoning model disproved Erdős’s conjectured bound; it was not an ordinary public ChatGPT session, and the broader unit distance problem is still unsolved.
- The Kate Gilgan Modern Love essay being discussed was published on November 21, 2025, not in March 2026.
- The Matthew Macfadyen/Elizabeth Banks Peacock series is titled *The Miniature Wife*, not *The Littlest Wife*.
Wikipedia Aug 23, 2026 at 06:06 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Hullot
- Inria’s own biographies place Hullot at IRIA/Inria through 1986, not 1985, and say his NeXT period began in 1986.
- The date “1985” is too early: Hullot’s own Inria timeline has him starting at NeXT in 1986, and historical sources place the NeXT Interface Builder in 1988.
X Aug 23, 2026 at 06:05 PM
x.com/SharmaBits/status/2091226552943968366
- Apple and Google were accused of anticompetitive no-poach agreements, but this matter was resolved by civil settlements—not a finding of guilt.
Wikipedia Aug 23, 2026 at 04:13 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_houses_in_the_Balkans
- This is inaccurate because the Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian word “odžak” does not mean “tower.” Standard dictionary definitions give it meanings such as “chimney,” “hearth,” “household,” or a large residence.
- This overstates the gender separation. Scholarly and official Kosovo heritage sources describe family living spaces inside many kullas themselves, with men's rooms as distinct upper-floor spaces rather than the whole kulla being occupied only by men.
Wikipedia Aug 23, 2026 at 04:12 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krvna_osveta
- This is chronologically wrong: blood revenge is attested in Serbian medieval law before Ottoman rule, including Nemanjić-era legal monuments and Dušan's Code.
Wikipedia Aug 23, 2026 at 04:11 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_blood_feud
- This sentence says there are six affected districts/counties, but it only names five. The underlying six-area study included Dibër (Dibra) in addition to Kukës, Shkodër, Lezhë, Tiranë, and Durrës.
- This is contradicted by UN human-rights reporting from 1993. Contemporary reports documented killings in Kosovo that year, including two police officers killed and several Albanians killed by police or dying in custody.
Wikipedia Aug 23, 2026 at 04:09 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feud
- This is false as written: contemporaneous human-rights reports documented multiple killings in Kosovo in 1993, including police killings of civilians.
- The Nag Hammadi massacre did not happen at a mourning gathering; the victims were shot outside/after a Coptic Christmas Eve Mass.
Wikipedia Aug 23, 2026 at 04:07 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichspost
- This conflates separate successor companies. In 1995 Deutsche Bundespost was split into three successors — Deutsche Post AG, Deutsche Telekom AG, and Deutsche Postbank AG — and Deutsche Telekom did not become part of Deutsche Post AG.
Wikipedia Aug 23, 2026 at 01:16 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus
- George Clooney did not literally portray Odysseus in this film. He played the character Everett Ulysses McGill in a movie that is described as being inspired by Homer's Odyssey.
Wikipedia Aug 23, 2026 at 09:37 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_event_sampling
- This date is too late. Rare-event Monte Carlo techniques were already published by Herman Kahn in 1950, and historical reviews trace the early published work to 1949–1950 rather than first appearing in 1951.
Wikipedia Aug 23, 2026 at 08:12 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwantung_Army
- This misstates what the 1895 treaty did. The Treaty of Shimonoseki ceded the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan; the Kwantung lease was obtained later, first by Russia in 1898 and then transferred to Japan in 1905.
- This places the headquarters move too late. The Kwantung Army headquarters had already been moved to Changchun/Xinjing in 1932, when Manchukuo was established.
Wikipedia Aug 23, 2026 at 01:53 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solow%E2%80%93Swan_model
- This formula has the wrong exponent on A. Given the production function stated just above, the marginal product of physical capital is proportional to A^(1−α−β), not A^(1−α).
Wikipedia Aug 23, 2026 at 01:11 AM
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%8F%E5%8C%96%E5%AF%AC%E9%AC%86
- This is outdated and incorrect: the federal funds target did not stay at 0.25% indefinitely. The Fed raised it to 0.25%–0.50% in December 2015 and changed it many times afterward.
- The start date is wrong. The Fed announced QE3 on September 13, 2012, not November 2012.
- The date is incorrect. The ECB announced this package on December 3, 2015, not December 4, 2015.
- This misstates how U.S. QE worked. The Fed’s QE programs bought Treasuries, agency debt, and agency mortgage-backed securities—not debt issued by “various enterprises” in general.
Wikipedia Aug 22, 2026 at 08:34 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_S._Rogers_Sr.
- Rogers was not the only successful spark-gap station in the 1921 transatlantic amateur tests. Contemporary and ARRL historical records show that other spark-gap stations were also heard in Scotland.
Wikipedia Aug 22, 2026 at 08:33 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_S._Rogers_III
- This misnames the body Rogers served on. Government records show he served on the federal Finance Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, while the Economic Council of Canada had already ceased operations in 1991.
- Rogers' own company biographies give different dates for his Comcast tenure. Official Rogers filings state he worked for Comcast in Philadelphia from 1993 to 1996, not 1992 to 1994.
- This board/affiliation is mislabeled. The federal Economic Council of Canada ceased in 1991; government records instead show Rogers served on the Finance Minister’s later Economic Advisory Council.
- This appears outdated. CableLabs’ current official board roster lists Tony Staffieri as the Rogers Communications director, not Edward Rogers.
Wikipedia Aug 22, 2026 at 08:32 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Vacuum_Tube_Company
- In 1941, Small Electric Motors bought Rogers-Majestic's manufacturing assets, not the entire company. Rogers Majestic itself became Standard Radio Ltd. and retained the broadcasting business, including CFRB.
- The UX-226 was not marketed in September 1926. Historical sources place its public introduction/first advertising in 1927, about a year later.
- Standard Radio was formed to make Rogers batteryless radio receivers, not specifically to mass-produce the tube itself. Contemporary histories say tube manufacture was handled by Rogers Radio Ltd./the tube company.