DANDIN: It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
[J’enrage de bon cœur d’avoir tort, lorsque j’ai raison.]
Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
George Dandin, or the Confounded Husband [oui le Mari confondu], Act 1, sc. 7 (1668)
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/2876/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #moliere #georgedandin #ego #error #frustration #incorrect #righteousness #selfrighteousness #wrong
Can anyone believe anything?
In the auction world and beyond, trust is essential. Bidders rely on an auctioneer’s statements, and consumers navigate news and social media, yet the question remains: can anyone believe anything anymore? Auctioneers frequently use disclaimers, making it hard to know what is reliable. While I may have criticized this in the past, the ongoing spread of misinformation makes revisiting the topic important. Spending time online reading posts, following news, and checking sports updates makes […]https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/can-anyone-believe-anything/
MPI recalls Regal salmon dip batch after discovering labelling error
NZ Herald 24 Oct, 2025 06:38 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #after #batch #being #date #dip #discovering #error #incorrect #labelling #mpi #NewZealand #NZ #packaging #printed #recalled #recalls #Regal #salmon #urgently #useby
https://www.newsbeep.com/205765/
New World admits error after ‘meatless bone’ pack sold in Whangārei store
A Foodstuffs spokesperson told the Herald customers always expect the label to match what’s in the pack. “In…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #admits #admitted #after #bone #customers #error #have #in #incorrect #labelling #meatless #mishap #new #NewZealand #NZ #pack #pick #price #selling #sold #store #whangrei #which #with #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/161196/
On "AI"...
I finally had an opportunity to personally evaluate the output of an #LLM that was asked to do a technical evaluation / summary of the state of an industry. A friend asked a modern model about a particular #technical field and asked it to summarize various aspects of it. It happened to involve supercomputing, which I have some knowledge of, and he asked me to look at the answer it gave.
It was a detailed writeup, a little over 1300 words. It had the structure of the kind of document he'd asked it to create, with appropriate sections, headers, with the information divided up sensibly, etc. It very much sounded like the type of thing you would expect a computer science #expert to respond with if asked the same question.
But some of the specific points in the answers were obviously wrong to me. Some I suspected were wrong. Some I didn't know. So I checked. I didn't check every fact and figure, but a decent number of them - and every single one I checked was flat-out wrong. It gave specific numbers or attributes for many aspects of the state of the #tech, and they were all wrong. Sometimes badly #wrong, and some stupendously wrong.
There were only a couple of things in the text that were obviously inconsistent, so unless you happened to already know something about the subject, there was almost no hint of how incorrectly it stated the facts. And of course it sounded supremely confident.
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Labour MP says minister’s error over secondary school teachers’ pay will be ‘harmful’
Prime said these were “really sensitive times” and “misleading” statements damaged the sense of trust the public held…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #be #claims #disrespectful #Education #error #Government #harmful #hugely #incorrect #Labour #labours #minister #ministers #mp #NewZealand #NZ #over #pay #prime #says #school #secondary #spokeswoman #teachers #will #willowjean
https://www.newsbeep.com/69323/
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ポイズン雷花の哲学その二「［話しは気になる壱フレーズ聞いて、聞いたつもりになる物では無い。 最初から最後まできちんと聞く物です。］」https://note.com/poison_raika/n/naccdeeb95a8a#poison #philosophy #conversation #hear #catches #eye #listen #carefully #end #cool #answer #question #happen #fact #simple #understand #incorrect #perception #information #time #situation ...
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)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #confidence #correct #incorrect #judgment #knowledge #right #wrong #accuracy #blackswan
Shelly Palmer writes: #AI Is Getting More Powerful, but Its #Hallucinations Are Getting #Worse
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing #incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
Read More · The New York Times https://shellypalmer.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c45bf0ae5539b15b901766ddd&id=be1d692683&e=4c30b7e32a
#UnitedHealth Group has avoided shareholder resolutions that would have asked investors at an upcoming meeting whether the company should audit how often it denies paying for members’ health care, following an outpouring of public anger last year.
One proposal from a group representing faith-based shareholders asked the Eden Prairie-based health care giant to develop a report on the human and economic toll that stems from limiting or delaying access to health care by #denying #payments via its insurance arm, UnitedHealthcare.
The proposal was withdrawn earlier this month, however, after UnitedHealth Group sought regulatory support for excluding the question from shareholder materials. Proponents said they believe they’ll have a better chance for success by re-submitting next year.
A second proposal sought third-party audits of denials to determine if correspondence with families included #factually #incorrect and #insensitive information. But UnitedHealth Groupsaid investor Chris Mueller missed the deadline for submissions.
👉Neither proposal was listed in materials distributed last week in advance of the UnitedHealth Group annual meeting scheduled for June 2,
when shareholders will vote on resolutions about #executive #compensation
⭐️including a new push for investors to approve “golden parachute” severance or termination payments.
https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/unitedhealth-group-avoids-shareholder-vote-on-coverage-denial-audits-in-wake-of-ceo-killing
#AI #search engines cite #incorrect #sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services #misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
Benj Edwards
..."A new study from Columbia Journalism Review's Tow Center for Digital Journalism finds serious accuracy issues with generative AI models used for news searches. The research tested eight AI-driven search tools equipped with live search functionality a"...
🧵 …the AI (as mentioned several times above) is a tool for miss information, is slowly being scientifically viewed.
»AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says:
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.«
#search #incorrect #propaganda #cjr #ai #aisearch #ignorance #AIservices #request #missinformation
Presumably someone has been touched or outraged again!? Unfortunately, such wonderfully #politically #incorrect #films with verve like #Snatch are no longer being made today. Possibly a problem of the #Disney -fied #film #industry? Anyway, I still really like #Snatch! #filmsky #thriller #comedy
I am coining the word incorrection to cover what happens when #autocorrect changes your correctly typed word to an #incorrect #spelling without consulting you first.
A Maine commission has called for 💥a new probe of the historical use of #Agent #Orange and other herbicides at a #New #Brunswick #military #base 💥
because it says ⚠️ the data and analysis used in a Canadian report that found most people at or near the base were not at risk for long-term health effects was "#incorrect" and "#biased."
The #Gagetown #Harmful #Chemical #Study #Commission, created last summer to study the impacts of exposure to Agent Orange and other harmful chemicals on Maine National Guard veterans who trained at 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown in Oromocto, recently presented its recommendations to the Maine legislature's veterans and legal affairs committee.
It said the committee should invite experts to review the Canadian Forces Base Gagetown Herbicide Spray Program 1952-2004 Fact-Finders' Report to determine whether the existing data should be reanalyzed or new studies conducted
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/agent-orange-base-gagetown-study-maine-commission-recommendations-1.7060592
using excel for sms...
#musicvideo #nelly #spreadsheet #sms #texting #incorrect #vidcap #animatedgif
using excel for sms...
#musicvideo #nelly #spreadsheet #sms #texting #incorrect #vidcap #animatedgif
Be Wary of TikTok Content on Infantile Hemangiomas: Study
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/be-wary-tiktok-content-infantile-hemangiomas-study-2024a10003pk?src=rss&icd=login_success_email_match_norm #SocialMedia #TiKTok #videos #MedicalAdvice #inaccurate #incorrect #InfantileHemangiomas
When #mDNS doesn’t work, I start having #incorrect thoughts on how to work around it with traditional unicast #DNS. Serves me right for thinking I could do something as radical as serve my music collection to the house network.
