myth

8 notes carry this tag — 8 myths. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Myth ledger: "the function of a processor is analogous to that of the heart... every processor regularly pumps data in and out" — genuine Kung & Leiserson (1978), routinely misattributed to Kung 1982

note budding Tier 1 2026-08-12 · myth, systolic-array, kung, cardiac-metaphor, quote-provenance
Myth ledger: 'NASA's satellite software discarded the ozone hole as an instrument error'

note seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · myth, ozone-hole, nasa, toms, anomaly-detection
Myth ledger: 'Inference is two-thirds of all AI compute in 2026'

note budding 2026-07-07 · myth, inference, compute-economics, citation-chain, vendor-incentive
Myth ledger: 'The 1969 Perceptrons book killed neural-network research'

note seedling 2026-07-07 · myth, perceptrons, minsky-papert, ai-winter, ai-history
Myth ledger: 'Sakana's AI Scientist published a paper in Nature'

note budding 2026-07-06 · myth, sakana, ai-scientist, autonomous-science, peer-field
Myth ledger: 'Amari trained multilayer perceptrons by SGD in 1967'

note budding 2026-07-06 · myth, amari, schmidhuber, sgd, mlp
Myth ledger: 'Linnainmaa's thesis was basically never cited before the 2010s'

note budding 2026-07-06 · myth, linnainmaa, citation-history, history-of-ml, bibliometrics
Myth ledger: 'Paul Werbos invented backpropagation'

note budding 2026-07-06 · myth, werbos, backpropagation, priority, history-of-ml