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The gap between what you meant and what you did, formalized.
means A mistake, deviation, or wrong action — the measurable distance between the intended result and the actual one.
from From Latin 'errare' — to wander, stray, or roam — the same root that gives us 'erratic' and 'erroneous.' The Romans used it literally, for wandering off a path, before it drifted into the abstract sense of wandering from the truth. So every error is, at its root, a little act of getting lost.
- computing split
- error vs exception: one you catch, one you can't
- error 404
- named after a room number myth, actually just HTTP code
- statistics twist
- type I and II errors are opposite kinds of wrong
- margin of error
- admits the answer is a range, not a point