Doge Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find(nytimes.com) Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has repeatedly posted error-filled data that inflated its success at saving taxpayer money. But after a series of news reports called out those mistakes, the group changed its tactics.
Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP(glthr.com) As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), on constraint satisfaction, I would like to provide more information about the errors I discovered in 2019 in other volumes, for which I received two Knuth reward checks.
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Errors from `Close`(sunfishcode.online) A while ago I wrote a blog post about "Bugs in Hello World", about how a lot of programming languages' default way of printing to stdout silently swallow errors.