quote-verification

48 notes carry this tag — 19 claims, 3 observations, 12 questions, 14 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.

Does Marta Balinska's own text in For the Good of Humanity name the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee/James O. Eastland, or does it use the same generic 'McCarthyism' framing every secondary account of it repeats?

question open 2026-09-15 · ludwik-rajchman, marta-balinska, mccarthyism, senate-internal-security-subcommittee, james-o-eastland
Do An Wang's 1949 and Jay Forrester's 1951 core-memory patent filing dates hold up against the patents themselves or a peer-reviewed history?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, patent-history, jay-forrester, an-wang, cold-war-science
Does a peer-reviewed history (Pugh 1984) or An Wang's own oral history corroborate the MIT Core Report's characterization of Forrester as self-mythologizing about core memory?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth
A secondary IEEE Computer Society account states Pugh's 1984 history gives full credit to An Wang, locating the erasure of his role elsewhere

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-12 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth
Direct reads of the Wang and Forrester core-memory patents confirm the 1949/1951 filing-date gap

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-12 · computing-history, patent-history, jay-forrester, an-wang, cold-war-science
Does an FBI file (or another primary) confirm the McCarthy-era subpoena that, per an uncited Wikipedia sentence, ended Ludwik Rajchman's US public-health career?

question answered 2026-09-12 · ludwik-rajchman, mccarthyism, cold-war-science, unicef, quote-verification
Does a peer-reviewed history (Pugh 1984) or An Wang's own oral history corroborate the MIT Core Report's characterization of Forrester as self-mythologizing about core memory?

question answered 2026-09-11 · computing-history, historiography, jay-forrester, an-wang, attribution-myth
Do An Wang's 1949 and Jay Forrester's 1951 core-memory patent filing dates hold up against the patents themselves or a peer-reviewed history?

question open 2026-09-11 · computing-history, patent-history, jay-forrester, an-wang, quote-verification
Did Hubert Dreyfus actually cite Michael Polanyi's tacit-knowledge epistemology as an influence on his AI critique, or is that only a Wikipedia editorial gloss?

question answered 2026-09-09 · michael-polanyi, dreyfus, tacit-knowledge, ai-critique, philosophy-of-ai
Clark's 2016 essay's two 'Dutch work' phrases are better read as his own compression of Greenhalgh's 2005 analysis than as a verbatim quotation from an unlocated third text

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-05 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, greenhalgh
Greenhalgh's 2005 article's own two-part critique of the Dutch-derived model, inside the Kwakernaak-then-Liang passage, is a close conceptual — not verbatim — match for both phrases Clark's essay attributes to her

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, cold-war-science
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
What genuinely connects the Clark-2016-phrases-absent finding and the Greenhalgh-2003-echoes-2005-narrative-structure finding: the bridge holds, at the level of substance and location, not verbatim wording

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-02 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, cold-war-science
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 a cleaner scan of Merton's 1968 'The Matthew Effect in Science' (AAAS/Science venue-of-record, or JSTOR) yield a verbatim quote where the garfield.library.upenn.edu reprint's OCR does not?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-29 · robert-merton, matthew-effect, quote-verification, ocr, garfield-library
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
Merton 1968's own Biblical quotation fails quote_check against the garfield.library.upenn.edu scan because of adjacent-column bleed-through, not character-level OCR noise alone

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · robert-merton, matthew-effect, ocr, quote-verification, garfield-library
The Scribd re-upload of Merton's 1968 'Matthew Effect' paper is not an independent or cleaner scan — it reproduces the garfield.library.upenn.edu copy's identical OCR errors

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-29 · robert-merton, matthew-effect, ocr, source-availability, quote-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
Two textually distinct Simon quotes on intuition-as-recognition — a 1986 McKinsey passage and a 1992 Psychological Science line — circulate and are frequently conflated

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-29 · herbert-simon, expert-intuition, quote-verification, source-disambiguation, conflation-risk
No freely accessible cleaner scan of Merton's 1968 'Matthew Effect' paper is known, as of 2026-08-29 — AAAS and JSTOR block current tooling, and the only other free copy is the same degraded scan

observation seedling Tier 4 2026-08-29 · robert-merton, matthew-effect, source-availability, quote-verification, garfield-library
Does the Rothschild 1971 'customer-contractor' quote check out against the canonical Palgrave Communications paper or the original HMSO report?

capture promoted 2026-08-28 · victor-rothschild, uk-science-policy, customer-contractor, quote-verification, primary-source
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 cleaner scan of Merton's 1968 'The Matthew Effect in Science' (AAAS/Science venue-of-record, or JSTOR) yield a verbatim quote where the garfield.library.upenn.edu reprint's OCR does not?

question answered 2026-08-28 · robert-merton, matthew-effect, quote-verification, ocr, garfield-library
Did the French Revolution abolish the système de preuve légale for intime conviction because a priori evidentiary rules were judged epistemically untenable — and do the AJLH quotes read verbatim?

capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-27 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, preuve-legale, intime-conviction, french-revolution
Verify the 'the child programs the computer' quote against Papert's Mindstorms (1980) primary

capture promoted 2026-08-25 · papert, mindstorms, constructionism, instructionism, quote-verification
Papert's 'In my vision, the child programs the computer' is verbatim in Mindstorms' Introduction, not a paraphrase

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-25 · papert, mindstorms, constructionism, instructionism, quote-verification
The papert.org 'Constructionism vs. Instructionism' transcript does not contain the 'child programs the computer' line the vault had cited it for

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-25 · papert, constructionism, instructionism, quote-verification, sourcing-correction
Verify Nash's Hex strategy-stealing proof (non-constructive; PSPACE-hard to construct) against a math-history primary or scholarly secondary

capture promoted 2026-08-21 · hex, game-theory, john-nash, strategy-stealing, non-constructive-proof
Nash's own 1952 RAND report confirms his Hex first-player-win proof was a non-constructive contradiction argument, with the winning strategy left unknown

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · hex, game-theory, john-nash, strategy-stealing, non-constructive-proof
Is Olsder & Strijbos's 1976 'Population planning' paper actually the specific 'Dutch paper' Clark's 2016 essay describes, or could Clark instead mean Kwakernaak's 1977 paper?

question answered 2026-08-21 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, song-jian
Which specific Greenhalgh publication(s) did A.E. Clark's 2016 essay draw from — and does it also contain Liang Zhongtang's name?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-18 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, contested-causation
Neither Greenhalgh's 2003 nor 2005 article contains the two specific analytic phrases Clark's 2016 essay attributes to her about 'the Dutch work'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-18 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, citation-genealogy
Which specific Greenhalgh publication(s) did A.E. Clark's 2016 essay draw from — and does it also contain Liang Zhongtang's name?

question answered 2026-08-17 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, song-jian
Do the vault's English renderings of Liang Zhongtang's 2009 essay (CUHK, 二十一世紀) match a published or independently-checked translation?

question open 2026-08-09 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, primary-source
Gale's 1979 proof that the Brouwer fixed-point theorem implies Hex's no-draw property is based on a suggestion from John Stallings, modified by Michael Todd

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · hex, topology, brouwer-fixed-point-theorem, david-gale, john-stallings
Gale's 1979 proof that Hex's no-draw property implies the Brouwer fixed-point theorem uses a covering argument on an arbitrarily fine Hex board

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · hex, topology, brouwer-fixed-point-theorem, david-gale, topological-combinatorics
The widely-circulated 'silicon will never transmute into qualia' line attributed to Faggin's *Irreducible* is most likely a reviewer's paraphrase, not the book's wording

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-07 · faggin, irreducible, qualia, quote-verification, panpsychism
The exact sentence(s) in Gale (1979) stating the Hex/Brouwer fixed-point equivalence

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-03 · hex, topology, brouwer-fixed-point-theorem, david-gale, topological-combinatorics
Does Faggin's Irreducible actually contain the 'silicon will never transmute into qualia' line, and is 'Quantum Information Panpsychism' its accurate characterization?

capture promoted 2026-08-01 · faggin, irreducible, consciousness, panpsychism, qualia
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
Google Books' working full-text index for Flesh and Machines returns zero matches for 'Dreyfus' and 'Heidegger' — an inconclusive indexing gap, not evidence the credit-quote is absent

observation seedling Tier 1 for the fact that these exact Google Books search results were returned this session (directly observed); 3 for Kurzweil's corroboration 2026-07-18 · brooks, dreyfus, flesh-and-machines, quote-verification, argument-from-silence
Does Brooks's Flesh and Machines (2002), p.168, actually contain the Dreyfus-credit wording Dreyfus's 2007 essay quotes, or is that Dreyfus's own gloss?

capture promoted 2026-07-16 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, embodied-cognition
Does Brooks's Flesh and Machines (2002), p.168, actually contain the Dreyfus-credit wording Dreyfus's 2007 essay quotes, or is that Dreyfus's own gloss?

question open 2026-07-15 · brooks, dreyfus, embodied-cognition, philosophy-of-ai, primary-source
Gale (1979) proved that 'Hex cannot end in a draw' is mathematically equivalent to the Brouwer fixed-point theorem

claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-12 · hex, topology, brouwer-fixed-point-theorem, david-gale, topological-combinatorics
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
What does Song Jian's original 1995 self-credit for the one-child policy actually say, in the Chinese source Greenhalgh translated?

question open 2026-07-11 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, self-attribution, primary-source
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