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jevons

29 notes carry this tag — 8 claims, 7 observations, 3 questions, 10 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  Jevons on both ends
  essay draft 2026-07-12 · jevons, jevons-paradox, inference-economics, history-of-computing, logic-machines

Everything else

• The cosine-0.87 pairing between the vault's Puckette 'buried common-ancestor bridge' note and its Pitman/Fel'dbaum 'same genre, opposite tool outcomes' note is an embedding false friend — shared genre, no object-level bridge
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-08 · bridge-taxonomy, meta-vault, jingle-fallacy, embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity
• What genuinely connects the Puckette/fourth-instance-hedged-bridge pairing (a buried common-ancestor bridge) and the Pitman/Feldbaum pairing (same genre, opposite tool outcomes) — cosine 0.87
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-07 · bridge-taxonomy, meta-vault, jingle-fallacy, embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity
• What genuinely connects the Gates-Jevons and Liang-1979/Olsder-1975 'embedding false friend' observation notes (cosine 0.87): a confirmed meta-level bridge, same species as the vault's 2026-08-16 hop
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-29 · embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity, jingle-fallacy, retrieval, epistemics
• The cosine-0.87 pairing between the vault's Gates-Jevons and Liang-1979/Olsder-1975 "embedding false friend" observation notes is a confirmed bridge, the same species as the vault's first meta-level hop
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity, jingle-fallacy, retrieval, epistemics
• What genuinely connects the Puckette dataflow bridge note and the Gates-Jevons 'fourth instance / hedged bridge' citation-genealogy bridge note: a real but buried common-ancestor lineage, not a direct dependency
  capture promoted 2026-08-25 · embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity, jingle-fallacy, retrieval, epistemics
• The cosine-0.87 pairing between the vault's Puckette dataflow bridge note and its Gates-Jevons 'fourth instance / hedged bridge' note is a buried common-ancestor bridge — real, but neither citation-genealogy nor shared-referent, and absent from both the note graph and the tracking hub
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-25 · embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity, jingle-fallacy, retrieval, epistemics
• What genuinely connects the vault's 'Gates-Jevons is the fourth confirmed embedding false friend instance' note and the 'RHW/DOCSUB-Gates-Jevons meta-pairing is a hedged bridge' note
  capture promoted 2026-08-22 · embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity, jingle-fallacy, retrieval, epistemics
• The cosine-0.87 pairing between the vault's 'fourth confirmed instance' and 'hedged bridge' Gates-Jevons observation notes is a confirmed bridge — a citation-genealogy dependency, not a shared-diagnostic-referent
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity, jingle-fallacy, retrieval, epistemics
• Bipartite hop: does the cosine-0.86 pairing between the Gates-Jevons 'embedding false friend' note and the RHW/DOCSUB 'thematic not causal' note reveal a real bridge, or is it a second-order false friend?
  capture promoted 2026-08-20 · embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity, jingle-fallacy, retrieval, epistemics
• The cosine-0.86 pairing between the vault's RHW/DOCSUB and Gates-Jevons 'embedding false friend' observation notes is a hedged case — real at the level of authorial method, false at the level of grounding
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-20 · embedding-false-friend, cosine-similarity, jingle-fallacy, retrieval, epistemics
• What genuinely connects the Gates 2025 Altair BASIC scan and the Jevons 1870 Royal Society dating claim (cosine 0.87, unlinked)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-14 · bridge-investigation, embedding-false-friend, diplomatics, documentary-source-criticism, jevons
• The vault's cosine-0.87 proximity between the Gates 2025 Altair BASIC note and the Jevons 1870 Royal Society dating note is an embedding false friend — shared rhetorical surface, not shared evidentiary genre
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-14 · embeddings, cosine-similarity, retrieval, epistemics, diplomatics
• Capture: Verify the dates and details of Jevons's Logic Piano — built 1869, exhibited before the Royal Society 1870 — against a primary or scholarly source
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-10 · jevons, logic-piano, logic-machines, history-of-computing, victorian-science
• Verify whether Jevons explicitly cited or admired Chrysippus's three-road dog (the disjunctive syllogism) as a model for mechanizing inference
  capture promoted 2026-08-10 · jevons, chrysippus, stoic-logic, disjunctive-syllogism, logic-machines
• In his 1870 Royal Society paper Jevons credits 19th-century logical reform — above all Boole — for making a mechanizable logic possible, and calls the ancient syllogism 'incapable of mechanical performance'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · jevons, george-boole, logic-machines, history-of-computing, royal-society
• Jevons's own 1870 paper dates the Logic Piano's completion to before 16 October 1869 and its Royal Society reading to 20 January 1870
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · jevons, logic-piano, logic-machines, history-of-computing, victorian-science
• In The Substitution of Similars (1869) Jevons derives the logical slate, abacus, and machine directly from 'this process of indirect inference' — the same elimination principle his Chrysippus quotation illustrates, but without re-naming Chrysippus
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · jevons, logic-machines, disjunctive-syllogism, reasoning-by-elimination, history-of-computing
• The claim that Jevons was 'fascinated by' Chrysippus's dog 'because it provided an example for the mechanisation of logic' is Barrett and Connell's interpretive reading, not a line in Jevons's own text — and it is the origin of the vault's original unsourced bridge
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-10 · jevons, chrysippus, history-of-computing, historiography, interpretation
• Jevons closed his exposition of 'indirect inference' in Pure Logic (1864) by quoting Chrysippus's three-road dog — in Sir Walter Raleigh's wording, not the ancient Greek
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · jevons, chrysippus, stoic-logic, disjunctive-syllogism, history-of-logic
• The Oxford History of Science Museum's own exhibition page independently dates Jevons's surviving Logic Machine to 1869
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-10 · jevons, logic-piano, logic-machines, history-of-computing, victorian-science
• William Stanley Jevons built the 'Logic Piano' (1869), a mechanical machine that performed logical inference, exhibited before the Royal Society in 1870
  claim budding Tier 4 2026-07-12 · history-of-computing, logic-machines, jevons, victorian-science, inference
• In The Coal Question (1865), William Stanley Jevons argued that improving energy efficiency increases rather than decreases total energy use — the effect now called the Jevons paradox
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · economics, energy, jevons, jevons-paradox, rebound-effect
• William Stanley Jevons is a double bridge from Victorian science to modern AI: the same polymath built an early mechanical logic machine and coined the efficiency-rebound paradox now framing AI's energy appetite
  observation seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · cross-domain-bridge, jevons, history-of-computing, logic-machines, ai-energy
• Verify whether Jevons explicitly cited or admired Chrysippus's three-road dog (the disjunctive syllogism) as a model for mechanizing inference
  question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, jevons, chrysippus, stoic-logic, disjunctive-syllogism
• Verify Jevons's Coal Question (1865) and the paradox's original framing against the primary text or a scholarly economic history
  question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, jevons, jevons-paradox, economics, energy
• Verify the dates and details of Jevons's Logic Piano — built 1869, exhibited before the Royal Society 1870 — against a primary or scholarly source
  question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, jevons, logic-machines, history-of-computing, logic-piano
• William Stanley Jevons is a double bridge from Victorian logic to modern AI — he built an early logic machine AND coined the efficiency paradox now framing AI's energy appetite
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · history-of-computing, logic-machines, jevons, economics, ai-energy
• The economist of the Jevons paradox also built the first machine to mechanize inference
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-11 · AI, inference, logic-machines, history-of-computing, Jevons