convergence

5 notes carry this tag — 2 mocs, 1 claim, 2 observations. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

The shape recurs, the object does not — a low-dimensional-subspace geometry turns up in monkey motor cortex, plastic RNNs, and LLM fine-tuning, but it is measured on different spaces (activity vs. weights), no primary source joins the domains, and even within LLMs the safety-subspace geometry splits three ways; the recurrence is an analogy the vault built, not a reduction the literature demonstrated

topic map 2026-10-08 · moc, neural-manifolds, intrinsic-dimension, low-dimensional-subspace, fine-tuning
A shared method is not a shared lineage — Mabillon's document-dating forensics reappears across six unrelated domains to settle authenticity and priority, and where the vault chased the genealogy it found mostly reinvention, with one documented descent

topic map 2026-10-06 · moc, diplomatics, mabillon, documentary-source-criticism, priority-dispute
Ober-Blöbaum, Junge & Marsden (2008/2011) prove the discrete costate recursion converges to the continuous Pontryagin adjoint as step size → 0, under stated smoothness/coercivity/discretization hypotheses

claim budding Tier 1 2026-10-01 · pontryagin, costate, adjoint, convergence, symplectic-integrators
Dreyfus's 1988 essay and Olazaran's 1993 SRI interviews converge on the same verdict — connectionism's mid-1960s eclipse was social closure, not scientific refutation — while naming different social mechanisms

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, sociology-of-science
Math sonification arrived at 'pitch encodes vertical position' at least twice, thirty years apart — AsTeR (1994) and StereoMath (2024), each built by musicians working on blindness

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · accessibility, sonification, auditory-display, computer-music, cross-time-bridge