Filtered for machine misunderstandings (Interconnected)

Posted on Monday 11 Apr 2022. 873 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

Filtered for machine misunderstandings 07.32, Monday 11 Apr 2022 Link to this post 1. Xerox scanners used to have a bug that would silently replace numbers in the text of documents to make them compress better. The bug was discovered by David Kriesel in 2013: We got aware of the problem by scanning some construction plan last Wednesday and printing it again. Construction problems contain a boxed square meter number per room. Now in some rooms, we found beautifully lay-outed, but utterly wrong square meter numbers. It’s to do with the image compression algorithm: Images are cut into small segme

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