Quotes About Error

The procedure I adopted to tame the halo effect conforms to a general principle: decorrelate error!

When we substitute an easier question for the one we should be answering, errors are bound to occur.

for most people, the cause of a mistake matters. The

the preference for causal thinking also contributes to the neglect of noise as a source of error, because noise is a fundamentally statistical notion.

Venn diagrams apply only to probability, not to similarity. Hence the predictable logical error that many people make.

if you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as systematic. We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

You may have noticed that the decomposition of system noise into level noise and pattern noise follows the same logic as the error equation in the previous chapter, which decomposed error into bias and noise. This time, the equation can be written as follows: System Noise2 = Level Noise2 + Pattern Noise2

Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.

Using JavaScript Error objects to reject promises can capture the call stack for troubleshooting

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He began to talk about the fact that race was not only a construct but a scientific error along the magnitude of the error that the world was flat. . . 'And when they discover their mistake, I mean, truly discover it, it'll be as big as when they learned the world was, in fact, round. It'll open up a whole new world. And nothing will ever be the same.

Art is human. Error is human. Art is error.

Art is human; error is human; ergo, art is error.

It just came out, a new number one on the list of the dumbest things he'd ever said.

Learning by trial and error, or experimentation, can be exciting, the lessons learned deeply engrained. Learning by failure is a remarkably good way of gaining knowledge. Failure is to be welcomed rather than avoided. It is a part of learning. It should not be feared by the engineer or scientist or indeed by anyone else.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Mira chico, aparta esa pistola. Las balas no me detienen, las navajas no me hieren... Mira...¡Mírame! Soy el error del piloto, soy la malformación del feto, soy el cromosoma aleatorio... soy la más completa y total locura... soy el miedo...

The world was far more complicated and nuanced than his categorical moral vision had led him to believe. The ability to learn from the excesses of his egocentric behavior, to alter course, to profit from error, was essential to his growth.

Should. Ought. Scenarios again, she thought crossly, which was how the mind persistently worked, using facts and assumptions left over from the past to draw conclusions that were frequently in error.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalise false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

At first they could discover nothing wrong, but that was traced to the fact that I had nervously put my right hand into the X-ray machine.

When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his.

This was a public telephone so it was clearly an oversight that it was working at all.

It had been late one night—of course. It had been a difficult day—of course. There had been soulful music playing on the ship's sound system—of course. And he had, of course, been slightly drunk. In other words, all the usual conditions that bring on a bout of soul-searching had applied, but it had, nevertheless, clearly been an error.