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11 notes carry this tag — 5 claims, 1 observation, 1 question, 4 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• NSF's own award record confirms EduceLab's $14M NSF grant and shows cumulative obligated funding has since grown to $14.6M
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-04 · nsf, educelab, funding, brent-seales, virtual-unwrapping
• The 1994 Material Point Method primary paper credits Sandia National Laboratories AND the National Science Foundation as co-funders, not Sandia alone
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · material-point-method, sandia, national-science-foundation, funding, primary-source-verification
• 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
• What genuinely connects Dreyfus & Dreyfus's 1988 vindication claim and SRI's ARPA-funding retooling: independent evidence for the same 'never refuted, socially displaced' verdict
  capture promoted 2026-08-13 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, sociology-of-science
• Did Nat Friedman himself, in his own words, describe funding the Vesuvius Challenge as personal curiosity rather than strategy?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-03 · vesuvius-challenge, nat-friedman, funding, ai-culture, dwarkesh-podcast
• Schmidt Sciences' HAVI awarded $11M across 23 humanities-AI teams in December 2025, including an Oxford-based Vesuvius Challenge follow-on
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-21 · havi, schmidt-sciences, brent-seales, ai-humanities, funding
• Nat Friedman funded the Vesuvius Challenge out of a pandemic-era personal curiosity about ancient Rome, not a calculated AI-industry strategy
  claim budding Tier 3 2026-07-20 · vesuvius-challenge, nat-friedman, daniel-gross, en-gedi, brent-seales
• Did Nat Friedman himself, in his own words, describe funding the Vesuvius Challenge as personal curiosity rather than strategy?
  question answered 2026-07-20 · vesuvius-challenge, nat-friedman, verification, funding
• Nat Friedman funded the Vesuvius Challenge after a pandemic Wikipedia rabbit hole into ancient Rome, not a calculated AI play
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-07-18 · vesuvius-challenge, nat-friedman, daniel-gross, en-gedi, virtual-unwrapping
• The other 1960s-80s connectionists didn't vanish -- they chased the funding or exited into industry
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, connectionism, ai-winter, sociology-of-science, funding
• SRI's neural-network group retooled toward symbolic AI to follow ARPA funding, not because perceptrons had been refuted
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · connectionism, ai-winter, sri, funding, sociology-of-science