minsky

13 notes carry this tag — 4 claims, 2 observations, 6 captures, 1 myth. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Simkin & Roychowdhury's citation-copying mechanism is a hedged, imperfect fit for the Minsky-1961 'structural' mislabel — it models verbatim misprint-copying, not conceptual relabeling

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-29 · citation-analysis, citation-copying, misprints, minsky, structural-credit-assignment
Dreyfus & Dreyfus's 1988 Daedalus essay argues Minsky's 1973 frames structurally recapitulate Husserl's phenomenological noema theory, a comparison for which no response from Minsky has been located

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-14 · dreyfus, minsky, husserl, phenomenology, frames
Dreyfus & Dreyfus's 1988 essay argues Minsky's 1973 AI frames structurally recapitulate Husserl's 1913 phenomenological noema theory, sixty years and two disciplines apart

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-12 · dreyfus, husserl, minsky, phenomenology, frames
The Dreyfus 1986 Technology Review article Brooks cites opens by quoting the heads of Brooks's own lab, and its 'failed to live up to its promise' sentence has a near-twin in Brooks's memo

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-26 · brooks, dreyfus, minsky, winston, mit-ai-lab
Dreyfus and Dreyfus's 1986 Technology Review article, the one Brooks's 1986 memo cites, opens by quoting Minsky and Winston, the two successive heads of Brooks's own lab

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-26 · brooks, dreyfus, minsky, winston, mit-ai-lab
SRI's neural-net group retooled toward symbolic AI around 1965–66, years before Minsky and Papert's Perceptrons was published in 1969 — the social closure predates the formal refutation

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, perceptrons
Minsky's own 'the perceptron project was really dead' testimony is a documented instance of the 'retrospective illusion' Dreyfus's 1988 paper warns the victors will produce

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, minsky, connectionism, perceptrons, sociology-of-science
Seymour Papert — the Perceptrons co-author who brought Piaget into the AI lab and became the father of learning-by-building

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-11 · papert, minsky, perceptrons, piaget, constructionism
Who first used the term "structural credit assignment," and in what context?

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, terminology, history-of-ml, reinforcement-learning
Myth ledger: "the structural credit-assignment problem comes from Minsky (1961)"

note budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, minsky, sutton, terminology
Capture: Did Werbos's 1974 Harvard PhD thesis explicitly frame backpropagation as a solution to the spatial credit assignment problem, and in what terms?

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-07 · werbos, backpropagation, credit-assignment, harvard, history-of-ai
Minsky named and formalized "the credit-assignment problem" in 1961 — as a temporal problem about sequential decisions, not network weights

claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-07 · minsky, credit-assignment, history-of-ml, reinforcement-learning, terminology
Credit Assignment Problem (Minsky 1961) and Backpropagation

capture promoted 2026-06-30 · backpropagation, credit-assignment, minsky, rumelhart-hinton-williams, neural-networks