I could of avoided this subject because it's not too big of a deal, but to observe these mistakes a couple times a day — and to see one as the headline of a full-page ad accepted by at least two major newspapers — makes me want to fall off of my chair.
"A mistake," observed Mr. Parchment, recalling that the deer revived and began to kick and buck wildly.
The paper observed that it is a mistake to consider Pinafore a burlesque, "for while irresistibly comical it is not bouffe and requires to be handled with great care lest its delicate proportions be marred and its subtle quality of humor be lost".
Casual observes might mistake Biondi, 50, for an accountant.
He was fond of calling himself a "worsifier" instead of "versifier," but as a critic for the Times Literary Supplement observed,> It would be a mistake to think of Ogden Nash merely as a funnyman; like Mr. Thurber, he has a Democritean streak which entitles him to the respect due to a philosopher, albeit a laughing one.
We assume that a state can be correctly observed with probability p; and a mistake happens with probability (1 − p).
Google had observed the spelling mistakes and corrections typed into billions of queries, and had a vast understanding of what people really meant when they typed like thsi.
Dr. L. Michael Hall, author of Secrets of Personal Mastery, advises, "Give yourself permission to be gloriously fallible!" The way to recover from a mistake is to observe it dispassionately, take whatever corrective action is appropriate, regain your composure, focus on what to say next, and get on with it.
Third, because a particular common pattern associates with so many distinctive underlying processes, it is a mistake to treat each observed case of that pattern as demanding a match to a particular underlying process.
Normally, coaches are obsessive about making players observe their mistakes, so they can learn from them.
