paul-allen

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

The Linnainmaa/OSTI cosine resemblance is a false friend — but hunting it surfaced a person-bridge vault_bridge can't see

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-27 · embedding-false-friend, vault-bridge-blind-spot, person-bridge, osti, semantic-scholar
Paul Allen person-bridges the vault's 1975 Altair BASIC cluster and its 2015 Semantic Scholar/Linnainmaa-citation cluster, invisible to embedding retrieval

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-09-27 · cross-domain-bridge, person-bridge, bridge-taxonomy, meta-vault, retrieval-blind-spot
Two uncredited programmers, sixty years apart, signed their work the same way software historians didn't connect — and Paul Allen independently called one of them 'a scribe from the Middle Ages'

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-16 · software-history, easter-eggs, authorship, colophon, diplomatics
Paul Allen's memoir Idea Man independently describes William Weiher — the programmer behind the earliest known software easter egg — as looking like 'a scribe from the Middle Ages'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-16 · software-history, easter-eggs, paul-allen, william-weiher, altair-basic