Mosthofa Imran: Errata and Retractions Corrections to the document and its position papers https://mosthofaimran.com/errata.xml 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z Mosthofa Imranimran@mosthofaimran.com CC BY 4.0 7.1 Paper 5.3 downgraded from 0.80 to 0.60 tag:mosthofaimran.com,2026:errata/7.1 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z Two readers demonstrated the effect reproduces in private mailing lists with no ranking algorithm present, which breaks the mechanism proposed. Section 3 of that paper is being rewritten and currently says so at the top. Reported by A. Rahman and K. Osei. 7.2 Paper 5.10 retracted in full tag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:errata/7.2 2025-11-14T00:00:00Z The central claim failed. Retrieval quality at scale turned out to depend on index properties I had dismissed, and the operational story matured faster than I predicted. What I was actually right about was narrower and less quotable. Original text preserved, struck through, with this note attached at the head. 7.3 Principle 4.3 was violated in production, by me tag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:errata/7.3 2025-06-30T00:00:00Z The June 2025 ingest incident traced to a retry path with backoff and no budget, in code I reviewed and approved. Ninety-four minutes of degraded intake. Postmortem published unredacted, including the review comment where I did not ask the question. 7.4 Figure 3 of the ClickHouse note had the axis mislabelled tag:mosthofaimran.com,2025:errata/7.4 2025-02-11T00:00:00Z Milliseconds, not seconds. The conclusion was unaffected but the chart was flattering by a factor of a thousand, which is exactly the kind of error that should be published rather than quietly swapped. Reported by S. Datta.