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myth-ledger

35 notes carry this tag — 16 claims, 7 observations, 4 questions, 6 captures, 1 dup-risk-stub, 1 dup-risk-log. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Capture: Does the Brode, Werbos & Dunn TSP manual's actual imprint read 1975 or 1977?
  capture promoted 2026-09-08 · werbos, tsp-manual, bibliography, verification, history-of-ml
• Klensin & Romberg's 1989 chapter is the sole traceable source of the vault's 1977 TSP-manual date, with no sourcing of its own
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-08 · werbos, tsp-manual, bibliography, verification, history-of-ml
• Werbos's own 1988 paper cites the TSP manual as 1975 in all three of its citations, never 1977
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-08 · werbos, tsp-manual, bibliography, verification, history-of-ml
• Does the Butterfield/Weinberg defensible-vs-anachronistic split actually hold when tested against every entry in the vault's myth-ledger?
  capture promoted 2026-09-04 · whig-history, myth-ledger, historiography-of-ai, butterfield, weinberg
• Weinberg's science exemption and Wikipedia's summary of Butterfield's own critique both explicitly name and reject hero/villain historical narratives, not only anachronistic concept-importing
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-04 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, weinberg, butterfield
• A Tier-1, non-vendor systems paper states as an unmeasured premise that LLM inference's computational demand exceeds training's — corroborating the disputed 'two-thirds' claim's direction, not its magnitude
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-12 · compute-economics, inference, training, unverified-premise, myth-ledger
• Forsythe did not coin 'computer science' — the term was already entering the language, per Knuth's 1972 CACM retrospective
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · computer-science-history, terminology, forsythe, knuth, myth-ledger
• Does Forsythe's 1965 Technical Report CS26 contain the 'art and science of exploiting automatic digital computers' definition, and did he coin 'computer science'?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-03 · computer-science-history, terminology, forsythe, knuth, myth-ledger
• Do the vault's myth-ledger back-projection cases actually sort into Skinner's prolepsis vs. mythology of doctrines vs. coherence?
  capture promoted 2026-07-28 · historiography, quentin-skinner, prolepsis, mythology-of-doctrines, mythology-of-coherence
• The 'Perceptrons killed connectionism' myth only half-fits Skinner's taxonomy — its causal-attribution component falls outside all four mythologies
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · historiography, quentin-skinner, mythology-of-doctrines, myth-ledger, perceptrons
• Skinner's Machiavelli 'founder' example adds a causal-naivety charge to the vault's Schmidhuber prolepsis case
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · historiography, quentin-skinner, mythology-of-prolepsis, myth-ledger, schmidhuber
• Skinner's mythology of coherence finds no clean instance among the vault's myth-ledger cases
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · historiography, quentin-skinner, mythology-of-coherence, myth-ledger, backpropagation-origins
• Werbos's 'credit assignment' and Amari's 'five-layer MLP' are independent instances of Skinner's mythology of doctrines
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · historiography, quentin-skinner, mythology-of-doctrines, myth-ledger, werbos
• Quentin Skinner's 'mythology of prolepsis' (1969) names the conflation of an action's retrospective significance with the agent's own intended meaning
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · historiography, prolepsis, quentin-skinner, anachronism, whig-history
• Skinner's 1969 essay names four distinct historiographical 'mythologies' — doctrines, coherence, prolepsis, parochialism — not one generic anachronism
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · historiography, prolepsis, quentin-skinner, anachronism, intellectual-history
• Skinner's prolepsis and mythology of doctrines name two distinct modes of the vault's back-projection pattern — significance-as-intent versus anachronistic-term-crediting
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · historiography, prolepsis, quentin-skinner, myth-ledger, whig-history
• Do the vault's myth-ledger back-projection cases actually sort into Skinner's prolepsis vs. mythology of doctrines vs. coherence?
  question open 2026-07-27 · prolepsis, quentin-skinner, myth-ledger, historiography-of-ai, verification
• Does Skinner's 'mythology of prolepsis' (1969) name the error side of the vault's back-projection misattributions?
  capture promoted 2026-07-20 · historiography, quentin-skinner, prolepsis, anachronism, whig-history
• Google's newest embedding model, Gemini Embedding 2, launched priced higher per token than its predecessor, not lower
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · embeddings, inference-economics, pricing, google, gemini-embedding
• Voyage AI's voyage-4 generation cut price only at its flagship tier; the mid and budget tiers stayed exactly flat
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · embeddings, inference-economics, pricing, voyage-ai, myth-ledger
• Butterfield/Weinberg's whig-history critique does not sort the vault's AI-history myth-ledger cleanly into two kinds — a hero/villain-narrative mode and a residual bibliometric/scope-conflation mode resist the binary
  observation seedling 2026-07-12 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, presentism, myth-ledger, philosophy-of-science
• Does the Butterfield/Weinberg defensible-vs-anachronistic split actually hold when tested against every entry in the vault's myth-ledger?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · whig-history, myth-ledger, historiography-of-ai, verification, synthesis-check
• DUP-RISK: the Amari/Saito and Gates seed notes bridge through the medieval half-proof rule — but the concept is already in the vault
  note promoted 2026-07-11 · half-proof, verification, myth-ledger, primary-source-verification, legal-epistemology
• Dup-risk: the Linnainmaa-thesis / Werbos-IEEE-awards bridge is real but already saturated in the vault
  note promoted 2026-07-11 · dup-risk, backpropagation, linnainmaa, werbos, myth-ledger
• George Forsythe, credited with coining 'computer science,' built Stanford's department out of numerical analysis
  claim budding Tier 3 2026-07-11 · computer-science-history, institutional-history, numerical-analysis, terminology, myth-ledger
• Purdue established the first computer science department in the United States, in October 1962
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · computer-science-history, institutional-history, numerical-analysis, priority-dispute, myth-ledger
• Both the first US computer science department and the one popularly credited as first were founded by numerical analysts
  observation seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · computer-science-history, numerical-analysis, institutional-history, cross-domain-bridge, myth-ledger
• Does Forsythe's 1965 Technical Report CS26 contain the 'art and science of exploiting automatic digital computers' definition, and did he coin 'computer science'?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · computer-science-history, terminology, verification, numerical-analysis, myth-ledger
• Did Purdue establish the first US computer science department in October 1962, and does an independent primary source corroborate its priority over Stanford?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · computer-science-history, institutional-history, priority-dispute, verification, myth-ledger
• The 'embedding prices stayed stable' claim doesn't survive OpenAI's own pricing docs — ada-002 to text-embedding-3-small was a 5x cut
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · embeddings, inference-economics, myth-ledger, openai, pricing
• OpenAI cut its embedding API price 5x from text-embedding-ada-002 to text-embedding-3-small ($0.10 → $0.02 per 1M tokens)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · embeddings, inference-economics, openai, pricing, myth-ledger
• Amari's 1968 book, read directly, credits Saito's 1967 Kyushu thesis for a stochastic-descent experiment on a piecewise-linear classifier — with no multilayer vocabulary on the scanned pages
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-07 · amari, saito, schmidhuber, stochastic-descent, history-of-ml
• Linnainmaa 1976's citation record, finally pulled — 51 dated citations across 1978–2009, then 245 in the sixteen years since 2010
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-07 · linnainmaa, citation-history, bibliometrics, backpropagation, myth-ledger
• IEEE gave Werbos the Neural Networks Pioneer Award in 1995 (jointly) and the Frank Rosenblatt Award in 2022 — the 2022 citation credits him with "development of backpropagation"
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-07 · werbos, ieee, awards, backpropagation, history-of-ml
• 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