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39 notes carry this tag — 15 claims, 3 observations, 7 questions, 12 captures, 2 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.

• PHerc. 1667's 'first complete scroll' priority claim is now documented in the research team's own arXiv preprint, but remains without independent (non-team) Tier 1–2 confirmation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-04 · vesuvius-challenge, herculaneum, pherc-1667, priority, verification
• The DARPA report blocked from DOCSUB and the 1974 Harvard thesis RHW failed to cite are two different Werbos documents
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-17 · werbos, docsub, darpa, backpropagation, citation-history
• Knuth credits Louis Fein with perceiving computer science's rise before Forsythe — a 1957 Stanford graduate-school proposal and a 1961 paper
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · computer-science-history, terminology, forsythe, knuth, louis-fein
• Ferris et al. 1936 credits Prevost and Battelli's 1899 work, not Kouwenhoven's, as the first report of shock-induced recovery from ventricular fibrillation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · bell-labs, history-of-medicine, cardiology, defibrillation, priority
• Seales's 2016 En-Gedi Scroll paper explicitly cites and characterizes Mocella et al.'s rival phase-contrast-tomography claim
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-20 · virtual-unwrapping, en-gedi, brent-seales, mocella, herculaneum
• Seales/Mocella is a third pole on the vault's multiple-discovery axis: acknowledged, citation-based convergence — never independent, never forgotten
  observation seedling 2026-07-20 · multiple-discovery, historiography, priority, virtual-unwrapping, en-gedi
• The En-Gedi/backprop resemblance is superficial — virtual unwrapping's history is acknowledged convergence, not mutual unawareness, and the vault already has the axis to place it on
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-19 · multiple-discovery, historiography, virtual-unwrapping, automatic-differentiation, backpropagation
• Does StereoMath (2024) cite AsTeR/Emacspeak for the pitch-encodes-vertical-position mapping, or present it as novel? (rediscovery vs. acknowledged lineage)
  question answered 2026-07-18 · verification, sonification, accessibility, computer-music, cross-time-bridge
• Was Amari's 1977 neural-field / lateral-inhibition work ever applied to Turing-style reaction-diffusion morphogenesis?
  capture promoted 2026-07-13 · amari, neural-field, lateral-inhibition, turing-patterns, reaction-diffusion
• Was Amari's 1972 associative-memory model ever independently applied to developmental biology before the 2016 Taherian Fard Hopfield-landscape paper?
  capture promoted 2026-07-12 · amari, hopfield-networks, developmental-biology, waddington, priority
• Robert Merton argued that multiple independent discovery is science's dominant pattern, making singleton discoveries the anomaly that needs explaining
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · sociology-of-science, merton, multiple-discovery, priority, history-of-science
• Merton: the drive to establish scientific priority is structural — an institutionally normal response to a reward system where recognition is the only currency
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · sociology-of-science, merton, priority, credit-assignment, history-of-science
• The concept of multiple discovery was itself independently discovered many times — Merton's thesis instantiates its own content
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · sociology-of-science, merton, multiple-discovery, self-reference, historiography
• No independent application of Amari's 1972 associative-memory model to developmental biology has been found; the cell-fate Hopfield-landscape lineage traces to Hopfield and spin-glass physics, not Amari
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · amari, hopfield-networks, developmental-biology, waddington, priority
• Parker's erased backprop report and the LabVIEW/Max convergence are opposite poles of the multiple-discovery axis — real independence forgotten vs. apparent independence over-remembered
  observation seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · multiple-discovery, independent-convergence, historiography, dataflow, visual-programming
• Adjudicating scientific priority is the same methodological act as documentary source criticism — authenticating an origin-claim against dated primary sources rather than the received attribution
  observation seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · history-of-science, priority, multiple-discovery, diplomatics, source-criticism
• Do Merton's own writings confirm that multiple discovery is science's dominant pattern, and that the multiple-discovery concept itself had 18+ independent predecessors?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · sociology-of-science, merton, multiple-discovery, priority, verification
• Does Pontryagin's 1956 maximum-principle announcement genuinely predate Kelley (1960) as an independent Cold War discovery, and did Boltyanskii/Gamkrelidze/Mishchenko's 1956 work already contain the co-state/adjoint backward-gradient equation?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · pontryagin, kelley, bryson, optimal-control, maximum-principle
• Does Strevens (2003) actually argue the priority rule is an economically optimal allocator of scientific labor, and what's the exact mechanism?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · sociology-of-science, strevens, priority, mechanism-design, credit-assignment
• Was Amari's 1977 neural-field / lateral-inhibition work ever applied to Turing-style reaction-diffusion morphogenesis?
  question open 2026-07-12 · amari, neural-field, morphogenesis, reaction-diffusion, developmental-biology
• Is there a documentable descent from Mabillon's diplomatics through general historical method (Quellenkritik / Ranke) to modern scientific-priority adjudication — or only a methodological analogy?
  question open 2026-07-12 · diplomatics, source-criticism, historiography, priority, multiple-discovery
• Priority adjudication is documentary source criticism — and Merton is the hinge to Mabillon
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-07-11 · history-of-science, priority, multiple-discovery, diplomatics, source-criticism
• Parker's erased report and the LabVIEW/Max convergence are opposite poles of the multiple-discovery axis — real independence forgotten vs. false independence remembered
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-07-11 · multiple-discovery, independent-convergence, dataflow, visual-programming, labview
• The sociology of science's credit laws are self-exemplifying — Stigler's law, the Matthew effect, and the Matilda effect are each named after someone other than their true originator
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · sociology-of-science, eponymy, priority, credit-assignment, stiglers-law
• Was Amari's 1972 associative-memory model ever independently applied to developmental biology before the 2016 Taherian Fard Hopfield-landscape paper?
  question open 2026-07-11 · amari, hopfield-networks, developmental-biology, waddington, priority
• Did LeCun's 1988 paper use hand-designed rather than learned convolutional kernels, and is that the basis for calling 1989 the first end-to-end trained convnet?
  capture promoted Tier 1 (bibliographic facts) / 4 (mechanism claim — see flags below) 2026-07-09 · lecun, denker, bell-labs, backpropagation, convolutional-neural-networks
• Myth ledger: "LeCun's 1988 paper used hand-designed convolutional kernels" — the 1988 hand-designed-kernel ZIP-code paper was Denker et al., not LeCun
  note budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · lecun, denker, bell-labs, convolutional-neural-networks, backpropagation
• Werbos traces backpropagation's earliest germ to a real 1968 Cybernetica paper — but its Freud-to-dynamic-programming content survives only as his own later paraphrase, not the paper's own words
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-08 · werbos, backpropagation, freud, cybernetica, priority
• 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
• Capture: Does Werbos's 1968 Cybernetica paper exist, and what does it actually say about the Freud-to-mathematics idea?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-06 · werbos, backpropagation, history-of-ml, freud, cybernetica
• Capture: What is the exact primary source of Werbos's Freudian "A causes B" backpropagation mechanism — is it in *The Roots of Backpropagation* (1994) or elsewhere?
  capture promoted Tier 4 2026-07-06 · werbos, backpropagation, history-of-ml, freud, roots-of-backpropagation
• Amari's 1972 associative-memory model has priority over the Hopfield network in substance — and Hopfield's 1982 paper does not cite it
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-06 · amari, hopfield, associative-memory, priority, history-of-ml
• Fukushima's Neocognitron (1979/1980) introduced the core CNN architecture — weight-shared local features plus downsampling — but was not trained by backpropagation
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-06 · fukushima, neocognitron, cnn, history-of-ml, convolution
• David Parker's 1985 backprop rediscovery was an internal MIT technical report (TR-47), credited by RHW 1986 only as "personal communication" with no reference entry
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-06 · parker, backpropagation, technical-report, citation-history, rumelhart
• The 1986 backpropagation Nature paper cites only four references — none of the earlier independent derivations
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-06 · rumelhart, hinton, williams, backpropagation, citation-history
• Myth ledger: 'Paul Werbos invented backpropagation'
  note budding 2026-07-06 · myth, werbos, backpropagation, priority, history-of-ml
• Capture: What did the 1986 Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams Nature paper add that earlier formulations did not?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-06-29 · backpropagation, rumelhart, hinton, williams, history-of-ml
• Capture: Who was Paul Werbos, and what did his 1974 Harvard PhD thesis actually claim about backpropagation?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-06-29 · werbos, backpropagation, history-of-ml, freud, harvard
• Linnainmaa has priority over reverse-mode automatic differentiation but not paternity — his work had no traceable causal influence on backpropagation's adoption in AI
  claim budding Tier 4 2026-06-26 · linnainmaa, backpropagation, history-of-computation, automatic-differentiation, reverse-mode-ad