mit

20 notes carry this tag — 8 claims, 1 observation, 3 questions, 6 captures, 2 essays. 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

the physics is public

essay draft 2026-07-22 · osint, verification-method, patriot-missile, burevestnik, mit
before the clinic

essay draft 2026-07-13 · history-of-science, mit, activism, mindfulness, cross-domain-bridge

Everything else

Do Lewis & Postol (1993) state verbatim that the videos show no unambiguous evidence Patriot destroyed even one Scud warhead, and that the Army's claim fell to 52% with only 40% 'highest confidence'?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-14 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method, source-verification
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
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
Lewis and Postol's 1991–93 analysis of news-camera footage found no unambiguous evidence Patriot destroyed even one Scud warhead

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, osint, verification-method
Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, was — as MIT molecular-biology graduate student 'Jonathan Kabat' — a 1968 co-founder of the anti-military-research group SACC and an organizer of the March 4, 1969 MIT research stoppage

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · history-of-science, mit, activism, mindfulness, mbsr
MIT divested its Instrumentation Lab in 1973 — spinning it off as the independent Charles Stark Draper Laboratory — under sustained Vietnam-era anti-war protest, despite the lab's weapons work being strategic rather than tactical

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · history-of-science, mit, draper-laboratory, military-funding, vietnam-war
MIT researchers used publicly available data and first-principles physics to contest official military claims in both the 1991 Patriot debate and the 2026 Burevestnik reconstruction

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · osint, verification-method, mit, cross-domain-bridge, military-engineering
The U.S. Army's claimed Patriot Gulf War success rate fell from a wartime 96% to a later 52% warhead-destruction claim, only 40% of it 'highest confidence'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method, military-engineering
Find a citable source that explicitly identifies SACC co-founder 'Jonathan Kabat, PhD '71' as Jon Kabat-Zinn, and confirm the SACC / March 4, 1969 facts against a primary

question answered 2026-07-11 · mit, jon-kabat-zinn, mbsr, activism, verification
Do Lewis & Postol (1993) state verbatim that the videos show no unambiguous evidence Patriot destroyed even one Scud warhead, and that the Army's claim fell to 52% with only 40% 'highest confidence'?

question answered 2026-07-11 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method, source-verification
Confirm the 1973 Draper spinoff and MIT's late-1960s military-budget figures against the MIT Technology Review article and a primary source

question open 2026-07-11 · mit, draper-laboratory, military-funding, verification, history-of-science
The MIT protest campaign that split off Draper Lab in 1973 was co-founded by a molecular-biology grad student who became Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of mindfulness-based stress reduction

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-09 · history-of-science, mit, robotics, activism, mindfulness
Patriot's Gulf War 'success' was a myth MIT physicists debunked with public video — the same MIT playbook reconstructed Russia's classified Burevestnik missile 35 years later

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · osint, patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method
Werbos says generalized backpropagation was first published as a command in an MIT software manual — the manual is bibliographically real, but no copy can be located

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-07 · werbos, backpropagation, tsp, mit, history-of-ml
Capture: Can the MIT Time Series Processor (TSP) software manual (Brode, Werbos, Dunn) be located, and does it contain the first published description of Werbos's generalized backpropagation method?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-06 · werbos, backpropagation, history-of-ml, tsp, mit
Who was David Parker, and what exactly did his 1985 independent rediscovery of backpropagation consist of — paper, report, or preprint?

capture promoted 2026-07-05 · backpropagation, david-parker, learning-logic, independent-discovery, history-of-ai