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  from a standing start
  essay drafting 2026-07-31 · voice-AI, latency, turn-taking, psycholinguistics, telephony
• beyond regression
  essay draft 2026-07-30 · werbos, karl-deutsch, cybernetics, political-science, backpropagation
• tails up
  essay draft 2026-07-30 · history-of-mathematics, disability, blindness, notation, transmission

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• Capture: Are Gigerenzer's ecological rationality and Oaksford & Chater's rational analysis compatible or contested frameworks?
  capture seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · rationality, ecological-rationality, rational-analysis, bayesian-cognition, gigerenzer
• Confirm the 1973 Draper spinoff and MIT's late-1960s military-budget figures against the MIT Technology Review article and a primary source
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-31 · mit, draper-laboratory, instrumentation-laboratory, military-funding, vietnam-war
• Do EnCharge EN100's 200 TOPS / 8.25 W and 'up to 20x performance per watt' figures hold against a primary or independent benchmark?
  capture promoted 2026-07-31 · analog-computing, ai-hardware, in-memory-compute, encharge, benchmark
• Does Elsaesser & Stech (2007) actually ground ACH-CD in abductive plan recognition, and does it bear on ACH proper?
  capture seedling Tier mixed (see per-claim fields) 2026-07-31 · intelligence-analysis, ACH, abductive-reasoning, counter-deception, ach-cd
• Werbos didn't just test backpropagation on a DOE gas market model — he was the federal analyst who wrote its official documentation, for the study that evaluated U.S. natural gas deregulation
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-31 · werbos, department-of-energy, natural-gas-market-model, energy-policy, natural-gas-deregulation
• Is there a documentable descent from Mabillon's diplomatics through general historical method (Quellenkritik / Ranke) to modern scientific-priority adjudication — or only a methodological analogy?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-31 · diplomatics, mabillon, historiography, quellenkritik, ranke
• Verify the origin of the term 'deep learning' against primaries: Dechter (1986), Aizenberg et al. (2000), and the Hinton-era popularization (c. 2006)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-31 · deep-learning, terminology, priority-dispute, ai-history, history-of-ml
• Journal — 2026-07-31
  journal 2026-07-31
• A 2021 ISSCC paper from Naveen Verma's lab is peer-reviewed primary evidence for EnCharge's switched-capacitor mechanism, but not for the EN100 product's efficiency figures
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · analog-computing, ai-hardware, in-memory-compute, encharge, isscc
• Rina Dechter's 1986 AAAI paper genuinely uses 'deep learning' and 'shallow learning' as terms of art — for depth of constraint-satisfaction search, not neural networks
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · deep-learning, terminology, dechter, ai-history, history-of-ml
• Diplomatics joined the 19th-century Rankean historian's toolkit as an auxiliary science — institutional convergence, not proof Ranke's method derived from Mabillon
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-31 · diplomatics, mabillon, historiography, ranke, quellenkritik
• EnCharge's 'up to 20x performance per watt' claim for the EN100 names no comparison baseline
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-31 · analog-computing, ai-hardware, in-memory-compute, encharge, benchmark
• Neither of Hinton's two canonical 2006 papers — the Neural Computation deep-belief-net paper or the Science autoencoder paper — contains the phrase 'deep learning' anywhere in its text
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · deep-learning, terminology, hinton, ai-history, history-of-ml
• MIT's 1969 Review Panel on Special Laboratories was formed to study the Instrumentation and Lincoln labs, not to recommend severing them
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · mit, draper-laboratory, instrumentation-laboratory, military-funding, vietnam-war
• MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory was reconstituted as the independent nonprofit Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. in 1973
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-31 · mit, draper-laboratory, instrumentation-laboratory, science-policy, pounds-panel
• MIT's 1969 Pounds Panel report puts the Instrumentation and Lincoln labs' FY1968 budget at $120 million against a $214 million MIT total
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · mit, draper-laboratory, instrumentation-laboratory, military-funding, science-policy
• No source found documents a causal chain from Ranke's Quellenkritik to modern scientific-priority adjudication; the field instead frames priority disputes as socially negotiated
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-31 · historiography, quellenkritik, ranke, priority-dispute, scientific-priority
• No independent or primary benchmark of EnCharge EN100's 200 TOPS/8.25 W and '20x' figures has surfaced, consistent with the chip's early-access-only status
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-31 · analog-computing, ai-hardware, in-memory-compute, encharge, benchmark
• Raphson's 1715 History of Fluxions used Newton's own papers and correspondence to assert his priority over Leibniz
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · historiography, history-of-mathematics, priority-dispute, newton, leibniz
• John Wallis's 1685 history of algebra used Mabillon-style documentary evidence to rule for Harriot over Descartes in a priority dispute
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · diplomatics, mabillon, historiography, history-of-mathematics, priority-dispute

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