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DRAM errors and cosmic rays: space invaders or science fiction?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16487
saved 2025-11-17 https://dotat.at/:…

DRAM Errors and Cosmic Rays: Space Invaders or Science Fiction?
It is widely accepted that cosmic rays are a plausible cause of DRAM errors in high-performance computing (HPC) systems, and various studies suggest that they could explain some aspects of the observed DRAM error behavior. However, this phenomenon is insufficiently studied in production environments. We analyze the correlations between cosmic rays and DRAM errors on two HPC clusters: a production supercomputer with server-class DDR3-1600 and a prototype with LPDDR3-1600 and no hardware error co…

Unprecedented errors are eroding the credibility of Trump's Justice Department (Sarah N. Lynch/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/unprecedented-errors-are-eroding-credibility-trumps-justice-department-2025-12-17/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p12#a251217p12

From #Either to Raise
#Kotlin

Gemini 3 demonstrates strong planning, coding, and judgment skills, and shows how AI models moved past hallucinations to subtle, and often human-like, errors (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini
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Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
From chatbots to agents

When I saw various cloudflare errors today, I thought there's this web page that says whether something is down for everyone or just for me and I wanted to check it. The meta irony: it only gave me a cloudflare error.

"People should not "blindly trust" everything AI tools tell them, the boss of Google's parent company Alphabet told the BBC.
In an exclusive interview, chief executive Sundar Pichai said that AI models are "prone to errors" and urged people to use them alongside other tools.
Mr Pichai said it highlighted the importance of having a rich information ecosystem, rather than solely relying on AI technology."

Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, Google boss tells BBC
Sundar Pichai candidly acknowledged concerns about inaccurate answers generated by Google's models.

Looking at how bad gen-AI is at continuity in images and video, I'm wondering if this is an old-man-yells-at-cloud moment. Is continuity really important? In IMDB's "goofs" for a movie, continuity errors are the least interesting. "The half-empty glass at 4:33 is half full in the next shot." Maybe this detail is a clue that the perp has already killed his lawyer without the lawyer realizing it, but subtlety is for lovers, and you are not. Glitches are witchy kitsc…

I got a few updates about my investigations on EU emission databases after the 39C3 talk and the corresponding newsletter I published. Update below the article:
https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/errors-and-inconsistencies-in-european-e…

Errors and Inconsistencies in European Emission Data
Factories that suddenly have emissions a thousand times lower than before, unexplained data gaps, and inconsistent CO₂ emissions from different data sources are some of the issues one finds when having a closer look at the European Union's emission databases.

from my link log —
Errors in Rust: a deep dive.
https://www.halcyon.hr/posts/error-handling-in-rust/
saved 2020-06-19 https://