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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-05-12

A quotation from Nasim Nicholas Taleb

But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Part 1, ch. 5 “Confirmation Shmonfirmation!” (2007)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #confidence #correct #incorrect #judgment #knowledge #right #wrong #accuracy #blackswan

WordofTheHourwordofthehour
2025-05-04

: hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard

- French: correct

- German: korrigieren

- Italian: corretto

- Portuguese: correto

- Spanish: correcto

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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-05-01

A quotation from Josh Billings

We are never nearer right than we am when we fear we are rong.
 
[We are never nearer right than we are when we fear we are wrong.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/76476/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #concern #confidence #correct #error #rightandwrong #selfawareness #uncertainty

10bmnews10bmnews
2025-04-24

Varuthini Ekadashi 2025: Correct date, time, rituals, etc

It is believed that observing and fasting on Varuthini Ekadashi gives people protection, fortune, and strength.

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JCONjcon
2025-04-20

Excited for EUROPE 2025? See Kaya Weers at in Cologne talking about 'A design pattern goes to the supermarket'

Everybody knows the term patterns. Some know the patterns and implementation …

Get your free Ticket: www.jcon.one

Manuel 'HonkHase' AtugHonkHase@chaos.social
2025-04-18
Justin Buzzardjdbuzzard
2025-04-10

Corrective and preventive actions need to ensure the problem doesn't rear its ugly head again, but also the actions need to remain in place long term and not forgotten.

2025-04-09

On correct but wrong responses

For a research project I am currently evaluating all kinds of generative AI models (mostly for visual artifacts but some text based ones as well). There also is somewhat of a push at my employer to use those systems more because of "efficiency". So we all know that LLMs fabricate facts meaning: They produce text that is factually untrue. Happens a lot, those so-called hallucinations are a structural property of those kinds of systems. But I kept wondering about something else that I keep […]

tante.cc/2025/04/09/on-correct

black and white stop road signScreenshot of a gemma3 based chatbot responding to the prompt "Write me a function in Python that gets a list of items and returns the sum of those items" with a manual implementation of a function doing that
Daniel AJ Sokolovnewstik@social.heise.de
2025-03-29

You can still #vote here. Although you can only click one, there are two #correct #answers . So you have a 50/50 #chance!

Jean-marie David 🟡jimdavid
2025-03-06
WordofTheHourwordofthehour
2024-12-30

: hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard

- French: correct

- German: korrigieren

- Italian: corretto

- Portuguese: correto

- Spanish: correcto

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Fill in missing translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio

Michael Dexterdexter@bsd.network
2024-12-28

@karlthane @dch I am cleaning things up for a push…

Please think about the #correct way to choose base package sets.

With meta packages?

Exclusions?

Long verbose lists?

Something else?

Colin from Edinburgh, Oklahomaphotoncollector
2024-11-16

Some people simply do not have the capacity to recognise the natural and scientifically demonstrable superiority of .

Even after it was clearly explained to them that they are morons, they still voted for .

How very perverse.

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