An exhibition opening on Friday at Moderne Gallery in Philadelphia, "Early Furniture by George Nakashima, 1936-1956: The Architect Designs," shows asymmetry and intentional flaws just starting to creep into his work.
There were too many intentional flaws that were not fallacies.
While my headline may be a bit overzealous, as this is likely due to some lazy webmaster, or is an intentional design flaw, it's obviously a big problem.
In testimony before the House committee in September, officials from both Huawei and ZTE said that supposed "back doors" in its software that provided unauthorized access to American companies' computers were flaws, not intentional vulnerabilities.
In this sort of forgery, flaws are often intentional, designed to smudge the fingerprints of the artists or otherwise obscure the origins of a fake.
Flawed analysis either intentional or though misunderstanding of commonly accepted data analysis methods can lead to erroneous results and presumption of correlation of cause and effect, when, in fact, there is little or none.
Alas, this half-admiration doesn't extend to the recent saga in which a) they rolled their own crypto; b) MIT and BU researchers found a flaw in it; c) IOTA first said that the flaw was intentional, and then, apparently, that it was created by an imperfect AI ; d) a spectacular war of words (between those parties and several others) erupted.
Depending on how one views these cuts, additions and changes — as intentional alterations by the playwright, thoughtless slip-ups by the typesetters or flawed recollections by performers — our sense of Shakespeare's genius shifts.
There is a whole spectrum of "off flavors" that can plague beer, but there is one flaw that is so common many people feel that it's an intentional flavor in certain brands -- especially a particular brand of Mexican lager.
However, as I pointed out above, the case for the intentional, hands-on design of the Universe with us as its goal is fatally flawed.
