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primary-source-verification

187 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 92 claims, 3 observations, 29 questions, 61 captures, 1 dup-risk-stub. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• What do A.A. Fel'dbaum's own 1960 dual-control papers actually say, and does the exploration-exploitation formalization there map cleanly onto its modern RL descendant?
  capture promoted 2026-09-15 · feldbaum, dual-control-theory, reinforcement-learning, exploration-exploitation, bayesian-reinforcement-learning
• Fel'dbaum's own 1960 dual control papers decompose control risk into an additive "risk of action" and "risk of study"
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-15 · feldbaum, dual-control-theory, exploration-exploitation, control-theory, history-of-science
• Does a direct read of Charles Perrow's 1984 Normal Accidents confirm Williams & Yampolskiy's summary of Normal Accident Theory?
  capture promoted Tier 4 2026-09-14 · normal-accident-theory, charles-perrow, williams-yampolskiy, ai-safety, primary-source-verification
• Jason Collins's 2017 quote-dense review of Normal Accidents corroborates the structural core of Perrow's tight-coupling/complex-interactivity mechanism
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-14 · charles-perrow, normal-accident-theory, tight-coupling, sourcing-gap, primary-source-verification
• Collins's 2017 review frames Perrow's 'normal' accidents as a recurring tendency over time, leaving Williams & Yampolskiy's 'will inevitably experience' wording unconfirmed against Perrow's own phrasing
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-14 · charles-perrow, normal-accident-theory, sourcing-gap, primary-source-verification, jason-collins
• A direct read of Charles Perrow's 1984 Normal Accidents remained unobtained after every web-tooling route attempted in a 2026-09-14 session
  observation seedling Tier 4 2026-09-14 · charles-perrow, normal-accident-theory, primary-source-verification, sourcing-gap, tooling-known-blocked
• Do Bak, Tang & Wiesenfeld's own 1987/88 papers and Bak's How Nature Works state self-organized criticality's tuning threshold as 'necessary' rather than 'necessary but not sufficient'?
  capture promoted 2026-09-12 · self-organized-criticality, complex-systems, threshold, bak-tang-wiesenfeld, sandpile-model
• Per Bak's *How Nature Works* independently confirms self-organized criticality needs no external tuning, and reserves the word 'necessary' for the non-SOC systems SOC is contrasted against
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · self-organized-criticality, complex-systems, threshold, bak-tang-wiesenfeld, how-nature-works
• The 'necessary/sufficient' framing of self-organized criticality's threshold is absent from the primary record — neither BTW's 1988 paper nor Bak's book uses that vocabulary, marking it a secondary-literature construct
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · self-organized-criticality, complex-systems, threshold, bak-tang-wiesenfeld, necessary-sufficient
• Weizenbaum's 1982 New York Times quote extends the Maslow hammer-and-nail line into his own warning that computers narrow what counts as a legitimate problem
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-08 · weizenbaum, ai-history, education-history, philosophy-of-computing, primary-source-verification
• The 1982 New York Times verbatim-quotes Joseph Weizenbaum attributing the hammer-and-nail proverb to Maslow
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-08 · quote-investigation, misattribution, law-of-the-instrument, weizenbaum, maslow
• Does the 1982 New York Times quote Joseph Weizenbaum saying 'to him who has only a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail,' verbatim and attributed to Maslow?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-07 · quote-investigation, misattribution, law-of-the-instrument, weizenbaum, maslow
• Does Yen (2020) actually conclude the microlithography resolution formula is Abbe's, not Rayleigh's — and in what exact terms?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-07 · history-of-science, optics, euv, lithography, misattribution
• Do Steinbuch & Widrow 1965 and Widrow's 1966 'Bootstrap Learning' actually document the abandoned multilayer-training attempt — and what does Widrow's oral history say about the 1985 return?
  capture promoted 2026-09-05 · widrow, steinbuch, madaline, bootstrap-learning, multilayer-perceptron
• Does Wright's law trace cleanly to T.P. Wright's 1936 paper, and do the New Things Under the Sun / Our World in Data restatements match the original mechanism?
  capture promoted 2026-09-05 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, experience-curve, tp-wright-1936
• Simon's 1992 Psychological Science paper does contain 'Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition' verbatim, read directly from Carnegie Mellon's archival copy
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · herbert-simon, expert-intuition, psychological-science, quote-verification, primary-source-verification
• Steinbuch & Widrow's 1965 paper is a structural comparison of two existing single-layer classifiers, not a study of multilayer network training
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · widrow, steinbuch, madaline, multilayer-perceptron, history-of-ml
• Widrow's 1966 'Bootstrap Learning' paper documents a genuine, preliminary, non-gradient attempt at training multilayer networks of adaptive threshold elements
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · widrow, madaline, bootstrap-learning, multilayer-perceptron, backpropagation
• Wright's own 1936 formula is a power law of cumulative production quantity, log-log linear — not a function of calendar time
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, tp-wright-1936, cost-curves
• T.P. Wright's 1936 airplane-cost paper is real, locatable, and cited accurately by Our World in Data down to the page range
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, tp-wright-1936, aviation-history
• Does Tushman, Newman & Romanelli (1986) actually contain the '3× more likely' frame-breaking-change figure, read against the primary?
  capture promoted 2026-09-02 · organizational-theory, punctuated-equilibrium, tushman-romanelli, executive-succession, quantitative-claim
• Gersick (1991) attributes the 'more than three times more likely to initiate frame-breaking change' figure to Tushman, Newman & Romanelli (1986: 42), confirmed by direct read of her own text
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-09-02 · organizational-theory, punctuated-equilibrium, tushman-romanelli, executive-succession, quantitative-claim
• The 'externally recruited executives are 3x more likely to initiate frame-breaking change' figure still rests on a single-hop citation, not an independent read of Tushman, Newman & Romanelli (1986)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-02 · organizational-theory, punctuated-equilibrium, tushman-romanelli, executive-succession, quantitative-claim
• Does Richard Sutton's 1984 PhD dissertation actually use the phrase 'structural credit assignment' — the field-lore origin of the term?
  capture promoted 2026-09-01 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, temporal-credit-assignment, sutton, barto
• Sutton's 1984 dissertation abstract, in his own words, frames credit assignment entirely in temporal terms and never uses 'structural'
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-09-01 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, temporal-credit-assignment, sutton, terminology
• The earliest confirmed instance of Sutton personally using the phrase 'structural credit assignment' is a 2023 talk, presented as a problem the field still hasn't solved — not a callback to his own 1984 dissertation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-01 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, temporal-credit-assignment, sutton, terminology
• Sutton's own retrospective one-line summary of his 1984 thesis names 'temporal credit assignment,' not 'structural' — and Wikipedia independently corroborates the same framing
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-09-01 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, temporal-credit-assignment, sutton, terminology
• Does Simon's 1992 Psychological Science paper 'What Is an Explanation of Behavior?' contain the 'intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition' quote verbatim?
  capture promoted 2026-08-30 · herbert-simon, expert-intuition, psychological-science, quote-verification, primary-source-verification
• Does Simon's 1986 McKinsey Quarterly interview contain the 'intuition = fast recognition' passage verbatim?
  capture promoted 2026-08-29 · herbert-simon, expert-intuition, mckinsey-quarterly, quote-verification, primary-source-verification
• Simon's 'intuition = recognition' quote traces only to one 1986 McKinsey Quarterly article title, whose primary text is undigitized and unlocated online
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-29 · herbert-simon, expert-intuition, mckinsey-quarterly, quote-verification, primary-source-verification
• Do Qian Xuesen's own 1989 book and the 2009 American Journal of Chinese Medicine article confirm his qigong/ESP 'somatic science' advocacy as Wikipedia describes it?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-28 · china, qigong, pseudoscience, qian-xuesen, cold-war-science
• Is Alroy's shareholder quorum subsampling really the same estimator as Chao & Jost's coverage-based rarefaction, or only a close cousin?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-28 · statistics-of-the-unseen, sample-coverage, rarefaction, paleobiology, shareholder-quorum-subsampling
• Chao & Jost (2012) call Alroy's shareholder quorum subsampling 'a different algorithmic technique' from their own algorithm, and their closed-form equation gives exact values where Alroy's and Jost's approaches could only estimate
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-28 · statistics-of-the-unseen, sample-coverage, rarefaction, paleobiology, shareholder-quorum-subsampling
• A second, independent peer-reviewed paper corroborates the Rothschild 1971 'customer-contractor' quote and pins it to Section II, Paragraph 6
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-28 · victor-rothschild, uk-science-policy, customer-contractor, quote-verification, primary-source-verification
• Does a primary or scholarly source corroborate the 1706 Diesbach/Dippel accidental discovery of Prussian blue?
  capture promoted 2026-08-27 · dye-chemistry, pigments, history-of-chemistry, prussian-blue, 18th-century-berlin
• The earliest surviving (1706) document on Prussian blue's discovery credits Diesbach alone and does not mention Dippel
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-27 · dye-chemistry, pigments, history-of-chemistry, prussian-blue, 18th-century-berlin
• Peer-reviewed history-of-chemistry scholarship independently corroborates the 1706 Berlin, Diesbach/Dippel outline of Prussian blue's discovery
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-27 · dye-chemistry, pigments, history-of-chemistry, prussian-blue, 18th-century-berlin
• No contemporaneous (1706) chemical account of the Prussian blue accident survives; the earliest personal testimony is a 1732 diary transcription of Dippel's memory
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-27 · dye-chemistry, pigments, history-of-chemistry, prussian-blue, 18th-century-berlin
• Do Pitman's own or Ellis's own 1837/1843/1845 materials confirm the EPA co-creation and Sound-Hand priority (currently Tier 4 only)?
  capture promoted 2026-08-26 · isaac-pitman, alexander-john-ellis, english-phonotypic-alphabet, sound-hand, phonotypic-journal
• Ellis's own 1845 book, The Alphabet of Nature, states he designed the English Phonotypic Alphabet's letterforms "conjointly" with Pitman
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · isaac-pitman, alexander-john-ellis, english-phonotypic-alphabet, primary-source-verification, history-of-linguistics
• Pitman's own Phonotypic Journal documents the English Phonotypic Alphabet's completion in June 1845 and its foreign-language extension in July 1845
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · isaac-pitman, alexander-john-ellis, english-phonotypic-alphabet, phonotypic-journal, primary-source-verification
• Does Li & Torr's 1992 APS conference abstract itself state 'provide a basis for the electrical generation of gravitational fields in the laboratory,' as a 2010 DIA survey document quotes it?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-25 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Verify the n·log n unseen-prediction horizon and its 'best possible' optimality against Orlitsky, Suresh & Wu (PNAS 2016) and Valiant & Valiant
  capture promoted 2026-08-25 · statistics-of-the-unseen, good-turing, extrapolation-limit, information-theory, primary-source-verification
• Li & Torr's 1992 APS conference abstract remains unlocated after a multi-route search, leaving its 'generator' quote resting on a single, uncorroborated transcription
  claim seedling Tier n/a — negative/absence finding; no primary text was found to quote directly 2026-08-25 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Orlitsky, Suresh & Wu's n·log n unseen-prediction horizon is proven optimal by a matched minimax lower bound, not just an achievability result
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-25 · statistics-of-the-unseen, good-turing, extrapolation-limit, information-theory, minimax-lower-bound
• Valiant & Valiant's real, non-concurrent antecedent to the n·log n family is their own 2011 STOC paper, proving a matching O(n/log n) sample complexity for entropy and support-size estimation — a different problem than species-count prediction
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-25 · statistics-of-the-unseen, extrapolation-limit, information-theory, sample-complexity, priority-and-lineage
• Valiant & Valiant's 2015 estimator independently reaches the same n·log n extrapolation range as Orlitsky, Suresh & Wu, but by an error metric the rival paper calls exponentially weaker in the hardest regime
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-25 · statistics-of-the-unseen, extrapolation-limit, information-theory, sample-complexity, priority-and-lineage
• Do Li & Torr's 1992 Physical Review B paper and the 1994 UAH preprint (Li, Torr & Karwacki) actually state that rotating ions in a superconductor could generate a usable antigravity field?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Does OpenAI's 'Learning to reason with LLMs' actually cite 'competitive advantage' as a reason for hiding o1's raw chain-of-thought?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-24 · chain-of-thought, openai, o1, competitive-moat, distillation
• Li & Torr's 1992 Physical Review B paper is a theoretical model of superconductor magnetic permeability, not a claim that rotating ions generate a usable antigravity field
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• The Li–Torr 'generate gravity in the laboratory' claim traces to a 1992 APS conference abstract and the 1993 Foundations of Physics Letters paper, not the 1991 or 1992 journal papers
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• The 1994 Li, Torr & Karwacki UAH preprint on lattice-ion rotation could not be located after a multi-route search, and its content remains unverified
  claim seedling Tier n/a — negative/absence finding; no primary text was found to quote 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Does Li & Torr's 1992 APS conference abstract itself state 'provide a basis for the electrical generation of gravitational fields in the laboratory,' as a 2010 DIA survey document quotes it?
  question open 2026-08-24 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Does SAND-91-7095's full text confirm its abstract's mechanism description and pin down an exact 1991 vs. 1992 date?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-23 · material-point-method, sandia, sulsky, schreyer, primary-source-verification
• What do the primary sources say about Ning Li's 1991 gravitomagnetic proposal and its 2011 replication?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-23 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• The 2011 'replication' in the superconductor-antigravity literature was Martin Tajmar's own research group re-testing its own 2006–2009 apparatus, not an independent University of Colorado Boulder team
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-23 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• Edward G. Harris's 1999 peer-reviewed paper formally rebutted Torr and Li's claim that a superconductor generates a detectable gravitomagnetic/gravitoelectric field
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-23 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, gravitomagnetism
• OSTI's own machine-readable citation exports, not just display text, independently confirm SAND-91-7095's January 1992 date
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-23 · material-point-method, sandia, sulsky, schreyer, primary-source-verification
• Do Li & Torr's 1992 Physical Review B paper and the 1994 UAH preprint (Li, Torr & Karwacki) actually state that rotating ions in a superconductor could generate a usable antigravity field?
  question open 2026-08-23 · physics, antigravity, superconductivity, ning-li, primary-source-verification
• Can 1979 Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group Document No. 112 ('Discrimination against Jews entering the university') be located and read, to confirm it — not 'Intellectual Genocide' — is the true source of the Mekh-mat 47-vs-40 admission table?
  capture promoted 2026-08-22 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
• Did the Sulsky–Chen–Schreyer Material Point Method collaboration actually start in 1993, or does it trace back to an earlier Sandia report (SAND91-7095)?
  capture promoted 2026-08-22 · material-point-method, sandia, sulsky, primary-source-verification, history-of-computing
• A 1981 CSCE Congressional survey, drawn from Lyudmila Alekseeva's own Moscow Helsinki Group materials, independently corroborates Document No. 112's subject as Jewish discrimination in Moscow University entrance exams
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
• The "20% metmyoglobin → half of consumers reject" meat-color figure traces, in the citing literature, to Hood & Riordan (1973) and Renerre & Mazuel (1985)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · food-science, meat, myoglobin, kubelka-munk-theory, quantitative-claim
• SAND-91-7095's cataloged abstract already describes MPM's core material-point-in-a-fixed-grid mechanism
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · material-point-method, sandia, sulsky, primary-source-verification, history-of-computing
• An earlier Sandia report, SAND-91-7095, predates the Material Point Method's 1993 founding papers by at least a year
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · material-point-method, sandia, sulsky, primary-source-verification, history-of-computing
• Howard Schreyer's own faculty bibliography confirms SAND-91-7095 reached formal ASME conference publication in 1992
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · material-point-method, sandia, schreyer, primary-source-verification, history-of-computing
• Does SAND-91-7095's full text confirm its abstract's mechanism description and pin down an exact 1991 vs. 1992 date?
  question open 2026-08-22 · material-point-method, sandia, sulsky, primary-source-verification, history-of-computing
• Does a primary NASA record confirm the Ozone Processing Team investigated the Antarctic anomaly by August 1984 and concluded it was real by December 1984?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-21 · ozone-hole, nasa, ozone-processing-team, toms, mcpeters
• Was the Material Point Method actually developed for penetration problems with Sandia National Laboratories funding, per the 1994 Sulsky–Chen–Schreyer primary paper?
  capture promoted 2026-08-21 · material-point-method, sandia, primary-source-verification, mechanism-verification, defense-research
• Kanevskii & Senderov's 1980 samizdat report 'Intellectual Genocide' survives only as a 2005 reconstructed English translation; the Russian original remains unpublished
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, mekh-mat
• Intellectual Genocide's 1980 MFTI admission figures (53/39 non-Jewish, 32/4 Jewish) match A. Shen's 1994 reproduction of them exactly
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-08-21 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
• Intellectual Genocide's MIFI Group 1 admitted count (36) conflicts with Shen's 1994 table (26); the primary document's own internal arithmetic favors its own 36
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-08-21 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
• A primary 1990 letter from OPT's own head dates the team's investigation of the ozone anomaly to July 1984, not August 1984
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · ozone-hole, nasa, ozone-processing-team, toms, mcpeters
• The Mekh-mat 47-vs-40 admission table is not contained in 'Intellectual Genocide' (1980); its likelier documentary origin is the 1979 Moscow Helsinki Group's Document No. 112
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
• The 1994 Material Point Method primary paper credits Sandia National Laboratories AND the National Science Foundation as co-funders, not Sandia alone
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · material-point-method, sandia, national-science-foundation, funding, primary-source-verification
• The Material Point Method's founding papers frame their motivation as penetration, impact, and large rotations together — not penetration alone
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · material-point-method, sandia, primary-source-verification, history-of-computing, computational-mechanics
• OPT's primary record confirms it reported the ozone anomaly in "late 1984," but does not itself specify December
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · ozone-hole, nasa, ozone-processing-team, toms, mcpeters
• A wavelength-channel error at the South Pole Dobson station manufactured false disagreement that delayed OPT's confidence in its own ozone-hole satellite data
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · ozone-hole, nasa, ozone-processing-team, toms, dobson-spectrophotometer
• Deniable by design — how Mekh-mat's entrance-exam discrimination was engineered to leave no basis for appeal, and why the case for it rests on convergent testimony rather than the one number everyone quotes
  topic map 2026-08-21 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
• Did the Sulsky–Chen–Schreyer Material Point Method collaboration actually start in 1993, or does it trace back to an earlier Sandia report (SAND91-7095)?
  question answered 2026-08-21 · material-point-method, sandia, primary-source-verification, history-of-computing
• Do Microcosmos's scaling benchmark (linear to ~500k particles on one L40S) and its four experimental results hold up against the primary paper's own figures?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-20 · artificial-life, gpu-simulation, computational-scaling, benchmark-verification, differentiable-physics
• Do primary/scholarly sources confirm that Mekh-mat's 'coffin problems' were deliberately unsolvable problems used to fail Jewish applicants?
  capture promoted 2026-08-20 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
• Capture: Do the MONIAC's £400 build cost and ~2% economic-accuracy figures rest on a primary source?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-20 · analog-computing, economics-history, moniac, phillips, hydraulic-computing
• Capture: Verify the primary source for the '20% metmyoglobin → half of consumers reject' fresh-meat threshold
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-20 · food-science, meat, myoglobin, kubelka-munk-theory, quantitative-claim
• The popular MONIAC "~2% accuracy" figure traces to an uncited aside in Nicholas Barr's 1988 LSE Quarterly history, and is contradicted by two independent Tier 1–2 accounts that both say ±4%
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-20 · analog-computing, economics-history, moniac, phillips, hydraulic-computing
• The popular "£400 to build the MONIAC" figure is real in LSE's archival record, but prices a different, later machine than the one it's usually attached to — the original 1949 Croydon prototype cost £100
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-20 · analog-computing, economics-history, moniac, phillips, hydraulic-computing
• A. W. Phillips's own 1950 Economica paper states the hydraulic machine's accuracy as "within about ± 4 per cent," not the ~2% figure that circulates today
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-20 · analog-computing, economics-history, moniac, phillips, hydraulic-computing
• What does Michael Mahoney's own 'The Histories of Computing(s)' (2005) actually argue about Whig history in computing?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-18 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-computing, mahoney, presentism
• Mahoney's 2005 essay never uses the term 'Whig history' or cites Butterfield — its critique is framed as anti-hype and anti-determinism, not an explicit Whig-history argument
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-18 · whig-history, historiography-of-ai, history-of-computing, mahoney, presentism
• Did commercial deployment of Lucky's adaptive equalizer raise voiceband data rates to 9600 bps (4x the ~2400 ceiling), and is that figure in any primary source?
  capture promoted 2026-08-17 · adaptive-filtering, bell-labs, telecommunications, signal-processing, history-of-technology
• Lucky's 1965 BSTJ paper names no post-equalizer data rate; his 1967 paper's introduction, the only portion read, likewise names no rate figure
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-17 · adaptive-filtering, bell-labs, telecommunications, primary-source-verification, history-of-technology
• The popular claim that Lucky's equalizer enabled 9600 bps traces to an unsigned, uncited IEEE ComSoc timeline, not a primary source
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-17 · adaptive-filtering, bell-labs, telecommunications, quant-verification, primary-source-verification
• Does a primary history-of-linguistics source confirm that Lepsius's Standard Alphabet failed to spread specifically because it was too hard to typeset — and corroborate the Lepsius→Ellis→Sweet→IPA lineage?
  capture promoted 2026-08-14 · history-of-linguistics, notation-systems, print-history, standards-wars, phonetics
• Does a primary or scholarly source confirm Lepsius as a founding practitioner of the epigraphic squeeze, and pin the size of his Egypt-expedition squeeze/cast corpus?
  capture promoted 2026-08-13 · epigraphy, archaeology, egyptology, karl-richard-lepsius, squeeze-method
• Verify, against a clean primary text, that Dawid & Skene (1979) proposes weighting each observer's vote by 'his previous performance'
  question open 2026-08-13 · dawid-skene, crowdsourcing, RAG, unverified-quote, primary-source-verification
• Does Heath, Larrick & Wu (1999) 'Goals as Reference Points' itself state the below-goal-works-harder mechanism the vault recorded?
  capture promoted 2026-08-09 · behavioral-economics, loss-aversion, reference-points, motivation, prospect-theory
• Does Icard's own 2023 Intellectica article match the nine-category Honesty×Truth taxonomy as reproduced in his 2024 arXiv paper's Table 6?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-09 · intelligence-tradecraft, epistemics, source-evaluation, formal-logic, admiralty-code
• Heath, Larrick & Wu (1999)'s own abstract states goals inherit loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity from the prospect-theory value function, and names effort among the phenomena this explains
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-09 · behavioral-economics, loss-aversion, reference-points, motivation, prospect-theory
• Icard's 2024 paper adds a full qualitative best-to-worse ranking of the nine message types that is absent from his 2023 taxonomy original
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-09 · intelligence-tradecraft, epistemics, source-evaluation, formal-logic, taxonomy
• Confirm the Good-Turing unseen-mass estimate (f₁/n) and the Chao1 formula (n−1)/n · f₁²/2f₂ against their primaries
  capture promoted 2026-08-07 · statistics-of-the-unseen, good-turing, chao1, singletons, species-richness
• Did medieval judicial torture exist specifically to convert a 'half-proof' into the 'full proof' of a confession?
  capture promoted 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, torture, medieval-law
• Does GIFT's claimed 7.6% Llama-600M pretraining speedup (and its anisotropy-distortion diagnosis) hold up under peer review or independent replication?
  capture promoted 2026-08-07 · gradient-geometry, quantization, distributed-training, quant-verification, primary-source-verification
• The 1532 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina withheld torture once full proof already stood, confining the mechanism to the half-proof gap
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, torture, medieval-law
• Chao's own 1984 formula for the Chao1 lower-bound richness estimator is D + f₁²/(2f₂), with no (n−1)/n bias-correction prefactor
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · statistics-of-the-unseen, chao1, good-turing, singletons, species-richness
• Nat Friedman describes his own project-selection pattern as impulsive and enthusiasm-driven, against a stated disbelief that 'the world is efficient'
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-08-07 · nat-friedman, decision-making, vesuvius-challenge, ai-culture, dwarkesh-podcast
• Icard's 2023 taxonomy crosses source Honesty with content Truth to yield nine named message types, from information to objective lie
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-08-07 · intelligence-tradecraft, epistemics, source-evaluation, formal-logic, admiralty-code
• An 18th-century French jurist's maxim, preserved in Garraud's appendix to Esmein's 1913 volume, states directly that two half-proofs cannot make a full proof
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, legal-epistemology, medieval-law
• Did Nat Friedman himself, in his own words, describe funding the Vesuvius Challenge as personal curiosity rather than strategy?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-03 · vesuvius-challenge, nat-friedman, funding, ai-culture, dwarkesh-podcast
• Verify the Foroughi & Al-Amoudi (2020) 'unusable/uprooted' quote against direct-fetched primary text (2026-08-03 attempt)
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-08-03 · organizational-forgetting, collective-memory, source-verification, primary-source-verification, quote-provenance
• Verify the two Feulner & Clopath (2021) within-manifold-learning quotes against the open-access full text
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-02 · neural-manifolds, dimensionality, learning, recurrent-neural-networks, plasticity
• Verify against Wangrow, Schepker & Barker (2022) full text: is the succession→strategic-change effect mediated by whether the new CEO replaces the top management team?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-01 · organizational-theory, executive-succession, top-management-team, source-discipline, primary-source-verification
• In Quintner's 1991 RSI history, Ireland and Bell appear only in a grouped footnote, not named in prose like Lucire — nuancing the secondary 'three main proponents' framing
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · history-of-medicine, occupational-health, neurosis, repetitive-strain-injury, primary-source-verification
• The cricket-Laws branch now rests three claim-notes on a single unrefereed preprint (arXiv:2607.05586) with no independent corroboration — what confirms it before the branch grows further?
  question open 2026-08-01 · single-source-cap, corroboration, complexity-science, regulatory-evolution, cricket
• CIE 15:2004 names the blue region as the site of CIELAB's residual non-uniformity, and states the CIEDE2000 rotation term exists to correct it
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-29 · color-science, cielab, colorimetry, perceptual-uniformity, ciede2000
• CIE 15:2004 states CIELAB was recommended as a perceptually more uniform alternative to CIEXYZ, in the CIE's own words
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-29 · color-science, cielab, colorimetry, perceptual-uniformity, cie
• Sharma, Wu & Dalal (2005) locate the CIEDE2000 blue-region rotation term's impact near a hue angle of 275°
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-29 · color-science, cielab, colorimetry, perceptual-uniformity, ciede2000
• Does Quintner's full 1991 text confirm the 'occupation neurosis' wording and name Lucire/Ireland/Bell as the 1980s psychogenic-RSI proponents?
  capture promoted 2026-07-28 · history-of-medicine, occupational-health, neurosis, repetitive-strain-injury, primary-source-verification
• Capture: CIELAB's perceptual-uniformity design intent and blue-hue shortfall, verified against the primary CIE technical report
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-28 · color-science, cielab, colorimetry, perceptual-uniformity, ciede2000
• Barlow's 1961 chapter never invokes center-surround receptive fields (or any retinal circuitry) as the redundancy-removing mechanism — it works entirely in abstract information theory
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-27 · neuroscience, efficient-coding, redundancy-reduction, receptive-fields, horace-barlow
• Barlow's 1961 chapter never names a 'factorial code' — the word 'factorial' occurs once, as ordinary arithmetic (4! = 24) in a toy two-input example
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-27 · neuroscience, efficient-coding, factorial-code, redundancy-reduction, horace-barlow
• Barlow's 1961 chapter states the redundancy-reduction hypothesis explicitly, in his own words, as the operating principle of sensory relays
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-27 · neuroscience, efficient-coding, redundancy-reduction, information-theory, sensory-coding
• Eldredge and Gould's 1972 punctuated-equilibria essay cites Mayr 1963, not Mayr 1954, for the 'genetic revolution' mechanism, and names no Mayr 1954 work in its body text
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-27 · evolutionary-biology, speciation, ernst-mayr, punctuated-equilibrium, intellectual-history
• GIFT's G = E[δδ⊤] K-FAC factor is built from ordinary real-label backpropagated gradients, matching Kunstner et al.'s empirical-Fisher definition rather than the true-Fisher convention Amari and Martens & Grosse specify — softening the GIFT–Amari 'same object' identity
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · gradient-geometry, fisher-information, empirical-fisher, k-fac, natural-gradient
• Kunstner, Balles & Hennig (2019) formally distinguish the true Fisher from the empirical Fisher and show the empirical Fisher is not, in general, a valid estimate of it
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · gradient-geometry, fisher-information, empirical-fisher, natural-gradient, primary-source-verification
• Martens & Grosse's 2015 canonical K-FAC paper defines the Fisher it approximates as an expectation over the model's own predictive distribution — the true-Fisher convention, not real training labels
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-27 · gradient-geometry, fisher-information, k-fac, empirical-fisher, natural-gradient
• Capture: Is GIFT's K-FAC gradient factor G = E[δδ⊤] the true Fisher (model's sampled predictive distribution) or the empirical Fisher (real training labels) — and does the difference weaken the GIFT–Amari 'same object' bridge?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-26 · gradient-geometry, fisher-information, empirical-fisher, k-fac, natural-gradient
• Is GIFT's K-FAC gradient factor G = E[δδ⊤] the true Fisher (model's sampled predictive distribution) or the empirical Fisher (real training labels) — and does the difference weaken the GIFT–Amari 'same object' bridge?
  question answered 2026-07-25 · gradient-geometry, fisher-information, empirical-fisher, k-fac, natural-gradient
• Do the primary texts (Eldredge & Gould 1972, Mayr 1954) confirm the biological punctuated-equilibrium quotes and the 'derived from Mayr' framing the vault has recorded?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-24 · evolutionary-biology, speciation, ernst-mayr, punctuated-equilibrium, peripatric-speciation
• Does Berger & Pope (2011) itself carry the 5.8–8.0 pp halftime-deficit figure and the loss-aversion attribution the vault recorded?
  capture promoted 2026-07-24 · behavioral-economics, loss-aversion, sports, reference-points, primary-source-verification
• Does Barlow's 1961 primary actually state the redundancy-reduction / factorial-code hypothesis as the vault attributes it?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-23 · neuroscience, efficient-coding, redundancy-reduction, horace-barlow, factorial-code
• Nat Friedman funded the Vesuvius Challenge out of a pandemic-era personal curiosity about ancient Rome, not a calculated AI-industry strategy
  claim budding Tier 3 2026-07-20 · vesuvius-challenge, nat-friedman, daniel-gross, en-gedi, brent-seales
• Two independent sessions and eleven distinct access routes into Brooks's Flesh and Machines (2002) all fail, pointing to a structural barrier rather than a search gap
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · brooks, flesh-and-machines, dreyfus, primary-source-verification, source-availability
• Fossil trait-sequence studies like Hunt (2007) test only punctuated equilibrium's stasis-prevalence claim, not its separate claim that morphological change concentrates at speciation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, cladogenesis, gene-hunt
• Hunt (2007) found directional evolution the best-supported model in only 5% of ~250 fossil trait sequences, with the remainder split near-evenly between stasis and random walk
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, quantitative-paleobiology, gene-hunt
• Hunt (2007) framed the rarity of directional evolution as corroborating punctuated equilibrium's claim about phyletic gradualism, not as narrowing it
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, gene-hunt, phyletic-gradualism
• Hunt, Voje & Liow's 2025 review of the aggregate quantitative record finds stasis common (~34–38% of cases) but not the dominant within-lineage mode, offering only partial support for punctuated equilibrium's strong claim
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, quantitative-paleobiology, gene-hunt
• Does Gene Hunt's 2007 survey of ~250 fossil lineages narrow the strong punctuated-equilibrium claim?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-16 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, quantitative-paleobiology, gene-hunt
• OpenAI withheld o1's raw chain-of-thought, naming competitive advantage alongside safety among its reasons
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · chain-of-thought, openai, o1, competitive-moat, distillation
• Does Gene Hunt's 2007 survey of ~250 fossil lineages (stasis and random walk dominate, directional trends rare) narrow the strong punctuated-equilibrium claim the vault records?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · evolutionary-biology, punctuated-equilibrium, stasis, quantitative-paleobiology, gene-hunt
• Does Berger & Pope (2011) itself carry the 5.8–8.0 pp halftime-deficit figure and the loss-aversion attribution the vault recorded?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · behavioral-economics, loss-aversion, sports, primary-source-verification, reference-points
• Does Mandt, Hoffman & Blei (2017) actually model constant SGD as an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, and under what assumptions does 'SGD = OU near a minimum' hold?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · machine-learning, stochastic-gradient-descent, ornstein-uhlenbeck, optimization, primary-source-verification
• Do the primaries confirm the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process's physics origin (Uhlenbeck & Ornstein 1930) and its use in the Vasicek interest-rate model?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · ornstein-uhlenbeck, stochastic-processes, brownian-motion, quantitative-finance, vasicek-model
• Is Sewall Wright's 1932 adaptive landscape a genuinely cited conceptual ancestor of the deep-learning 'loss landscape,' or only a loose after-the-fact resemblance?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · history-of-ml, evolutionary-biology, sewall-wright, adaptive-landscape, loss-landscape
• Verify against a primary source that the CIELAB ab-plane has nonzero Gaussian curvature, obstructing isometric Euclidean embedding (Ahrens et al. 2024)
  question open 2026-07-12 · color-science, cielab, non-euclidean, gaussian-curvature, primary-source-verification
• Does Heath, Larrick & Wu (1999) 'Goals as Reference Points' itself state the below-goal-works-harder mechanism the vault recorded?
  question open 2026-07-12 · behavioral-economics, loss-aversion, reference-points, motivation, primary-source-verification
• 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
• Medieval judicial torture could be ordered only on a standing half-proof, and functioned to produce the confession that completed it into full proof
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-11 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, torture, verification
• Ning Li and Douglas Torr's 1991 Physical Review D paper models a superconductor's passive response to an external gravitomagnetic field; the field-generating 'antigravity' claim belongs to their later, unread 1992–1994 papers
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, ning-li
• Prussian blue was discovered accidentally in 1706 as a failed attempt to make a red pigment
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-11 · dye-chemistry, pigments, accidental-discovery, history-of-chemistry, hop
• Victor Rothschild's 1971 report mandated that applied government R&D be run on a 'customer-contractor' basis
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-11 · uk-science-policy, victor-rothschild, science-research-council, research-funding, customer-contractor
• Superconductor-based antigravity effects have never been independently replicated; the vault's original '2011 Boulder Physical Review Letters' attribution is unconfirmed — the actual 2011 primary is Martin Tajmar's own team re-testing its own apparatus
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · fringe-science, physics, antigravity, superconductivity, replication
• Verify against the primary 1931 Kubelka & Munk paper that the theory was framed for paint hiding-power / opacity
  question answered 2026-07-11 · color-science, kubelka-munk-theory, optics, primary-source-verification, history-of-science
• Was the Material Point Method actually developed for penetration problems with Sandia National Laboratories funding, per the 1994 Sulsky–Chen–Schreyer primary paper?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · material-point-method, sandia, primary-source-verification, mechanism-verification, defense-research
• Verify the primary source for the '20% metmyoglobin → half of consumers reject' fresh-meat threshold
  question open 2026-07-11 · food-science, meat, myoglobin, quantitative-claim, primary-source-verification
• Confirm against a standalone 1969 first-edition scan of Perceptrons that 'credit-assignment' is absent from the original text (present only in the 1988 Epilogue)
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, primary-source-verification, history-of-ml
• Do the primary texts of Gersick (1991) and Tushman & Romanelli (1985) actually contain the punctuated-equilibrium mechanism phrasings the vault has recorded?
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · organizational-theory, punctuated-equilibrium, gersick, tushman-romanelli, primary-source-verification
• A full-text mirror of Gersick (1991) confirms the vault's recorded 'deep structure' quotations verbatim against the primary text
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · organizational-theory, punctuated-equilibrium, gersick, primary-source-verification, source-discipline
• No freely accessible standalone scan of the 1969 first edition of Perceptrons could be located; major repositories hold only the 1988 Expanded Edition
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, primary-source-verification, history-of-ml, source-availability
• Jordan Pollack's 1989 review locates Minsky & Papert's credit/blame-apportionment argument in the 1988 Prologue (roman-numeral p. xiii), and finds no 'credit assignment' in four sampled passages of the 1969 body
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, history-of-ml, primary-source-verification
• Jordan Pollack's 1989 peer-reviewed review quotes the 'intuitive judgment … sterile' passage from Perceptrons and cites it to p. 231
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, ai-history, connectionism, primary-source-verification
• The punctuated-equilibrium 'trigger' findings the vault attributed to Tushman & Romanelli (1985) are verbatim the abstract of Romanelli & Tushman (1994), a distinct later empirical paper
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · organizational-theory, punctuated-equilibrium, misattribution, source-discipline, tushman-romanelli
• The vault's recorded Tushman & Romanelli (1985) 'reorientation' quote is a paraphrase blending the reorientation-event definition with the separate strategic-orientation (deep-structure) definition, matching neither verbatim
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · organizational-theory, punctuated-equilibrium, tushman-romanelli, source-discipline, primary-source-verification
• Do the primary texts (Eldredge & Gould 1972, Mayr 1954) confirm the biological punctuated-equilibrium quotes and the 'derived from Mayr' framing the vault has recorded?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · evolutionary-biology, speciation, ernst-mayr, punctuated-equilibrium, primary-source-verification
• Verify against a primary CIE / colorimetry source: (a) that CIELAB (1976) was designed for perceptual uniformity, and (b) that it is known to fall short particularly in blue hues
  question answered 2026-07-09 · color-science, cielab, colorimetry, perceptual-uniformity, primary-source-verification
• Does Chia et al. (2026, arXiv:2607.05586) explicitly connect its cricket-rulebook 'phase transitions' to the biological/organizational punctuated-equilibrium literature, or arrive at 'punctuated' change independently via statistical physics?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · complexity-science, regulatory-evolution, punctuated-equilibrium, phase-transition, santa-fe-institute
• Do Microcosmos's scaling benchmark (linear to ~500k particles on one L40S) and its four experimental results hold up against the primary paper's own figures?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · artificial-life, gpu-simulation, quant-verification, primary-source-verification, microcosmos
• Verify against Wangrow, Schepker & Barker (2022) full text: is the succession→strategic-change effect mediated by whether the new CEO replaces the top management team?
  question open 2026-07-09 · organizational-theory, executive-succession, source-discipline, primary-source-verification, self-rewiring
• Does GIFT's claimed 7.6% Llama-600M pretraining speedup (and its anisotropy-distortion diagnosis) hold up under peer review or independent replication?
  question open 2026-07-09 · gradient-geometry, quantization, distributed-training, quant-verification, primary-source-verification
• Did commercial deployment of Lucky's adaptive equalizer raise voiceband data rates to 9600 bps (4× the ~2400 ceiling), and is that figure in any primary source?
  question open 2026-07-09 · adaptive-filtering, bell-labs, telecommunications, primary-source-verification, quant-verification
• Do the primary texts of Gersick (1991) and Tushman & Romanelli (1985) actually contain the punctuated-equilibrium mechanism phrasings the vault has recorded?
  question open 2026-07-09 · organizational-theory, punctuated-equilibrium, primary-source-verification, gersick, tushman-romanelli
• Confirm against a standalone 1969 first-edition scan of Perceptrons that 'credit-assignment' is absent from the original text (present only in the 1988 Epilogue)
  question open 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, primary-source-verification, history-of-ml
• Does Richard Sutton's 1984 PhD dissertation actually use the phrase 'structural credit assignment' — the field-lore origin of the term?
  question open 2026-07-09 · credit-assignment, structural-credit-assignment, sutton, terminology, history-of-ml
• Does Tushman, Newman & Romanelli (1986) actually contain the '3× more likely' frame-breaking-change figure, read against the primary?
  question open 2026-07-09 · organizational-theory, punctuated-equilibrium, executive-succession, quantitative-claim, primary-source-verification
• Do Steinbuch & Widrow 1965 and Widrow's 1966 'Bootstrap Learning' actually document the abandoned multilayer-training attempt — and what does Widrow's oral history say about the 1985 return?
  question open 2026-07-09 · widrow, madaline, multilayer-perceptron, backpropagation, history-of-ml
• Capture: Dedupe-check on '[ANSWERED 2026-07-07, cycle 17; venue was wrong — BIT 16, not Annales] Yes on both counts' topic — confirms claim-linnainmaa-1976-algorithm-t-reverse-sweep is real, accurate, and re-corroborated; no new research warranted
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-08 · automatic-differentiation, linnainmaa, reverse-mode-ad, backpropagation, history-of-computation
• Does Perceptrons (1969) p. 232 contain the 'intuitive judgment … sterile' passage verbatim?
  capture promoted 2026-07-08 · Perceptrons, Minsky-Papert, history-of-AI, AI-winter, multilayer-perceptrons
• What exactly did Dreyfus (1973) publish on error-gradient-proportional controller adaptation, and does it constitute a verifiable intermediate step in the backpropagation lineage?
  capture promoted 2026-07-07 · backpropagation, optimal-control, history-of-AI, Kelley-Bryson, Dreyfus
• Capture: Does section 5.5.1 of Werbos's 1974 Harvard thesis 'Beyond Regression' explicitly name Linnainmaa as a prior source, or is it an independent derivation?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-07 · werbos, linnainmaa, backpropagation, automatic-differentiation, harvard
• 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's 1976 BIT paper itself contains the reverse-mode structure — Algorithm T sweeps backward through recorded operations accumulating partial derivatives
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-07 · linnainmaa, reverse-mode-ad, automatic-differentiation, primary-source-verification, history-of-computation
• Werbos's 1974 thesis never mentions Linnainmaa — and Schmidhuber's "Section 5.5.1" locator doesn't structurally exist in the 1974 text
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-07 · werbos, linnainmaa, backpropagation, independent-discovery, history-of-ml
• Did Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams (1986) explicitly invoke random initial weights as a symmetry-breaking mechanism in the Nature paper or their own writings?
  capture promoted 2026-07-05 · backpropagation, rumelhart-hinton-williams-1986, symmetry-breaking, weight-initialization, history-of-ai
• Did Ivakhnenko (1965 GMDH) and Amari (1967 SGD MLP) develop deep-network training methods that Rumelhart-Hinton-Williams 1986 failed to cite?
  capture promoted 2026-07-05 · backpropagation, rumelhart-hinton-williams-1986, ivakhnenko, gmdh, amari
• 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
• Do the 1986 Rumelhart-Hinton-Williams Nature paper's actual demonstrations of "useful internal representations" include a two-hidden-unit mirror-symmetry network and a five-layer family-tree network, as claimed by chsasank.com?
  capture promoted 2026-07-04 · backpropagation, rumelhart-hinton-williams-1986, multilayer-perceptron, internal-representations, history-of-ai
• Capture: Does Table 5 in Griewank 2014 independently support a Tier-1 claim about Linnainmaa's backward pass?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-01 · automatic-differentiation, linnainmaa, griewank, backpropagation, reverse-mode
• Capture: Is Linnainmaa's 1976 paper locatable/accessible, and does it describe reverse-mode autodiff? (with a venue correction)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-01 · automatic-differentiation, linnainmaa, reverse-mode, backpropagation, history-of-ml