Status Updates From Humble Pi: A Comedy of Math...

"deliberately vague, somewhere in 7 to 10 and maybe 72" (4,294,967,291) a good index listing

"Having bar codes caused situations where the patients and drugs were less thoroughly checked than they were before. If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes.

It can be very dangerous when humans get complacent and think they know better than the math." (3)

"Originally an April Fools' joke, connected teapots have of course since been made and run according to HTCPCP. An attempt to remove this error in 2017 was defeated by the Save 418 Movement, which preserved it as 'a reminder that the underlying processes of computers are still made by humans.'" (14)

"Always hilarious, internet engineers have designated error code 418 as I'm a teapot. It is returned by any internet-enabled teapots that are sent a request to make coffee. It was introduced as part of the 1998 release of Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP) specifications." (15)

"For this reason, programmers can leave 'comments' in their code, which are little messages to anyone else who has to read their code. The programmer mantra should be 'Always comment on your code.' And make the comments helpful. I've reviewed dense code I wrote years before, to find the only comment is 'Good luck, future Matt.'" (24)

"'While the printed version is good, I would have expected the publisher to have an audiobook version as well.'" (32)

"If you have not done so before, you must read the online reviews of books of random numbers. You'd think people would not have much to say about lists of random digits, but this vacuum brings out the creativity in people.
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'Don't turn to the last page and spoil the book by finding out the ending. Make sure you read from page 1 and let the tension build.'" (32)

"The numbers produced by statistics are the start of finding the answer, not the end." (56)