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source-verification

85 notes carry this tag — 5 mocs, 35 claims, 1 observation, 1 entity, 17 questions, 24 captures, 1 claim-note, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  one in seven
  essay drafting 2026-10-18 · citogenesis, source-verification, colophon, codicology, statistics

Everything else

• The December 2009 Physics Today obituary of Herbert York (Brown & Tarter) exists, is fetchable, and independently corroborates the chief-scientist-to-DDR&E sequence
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-10-26 · cold-war-science, nuclear-weapons, darpa, arpa, herbert-york
• Harold Brown and C. Bruce Tarter's December 2009 Physics Today obituary corroborates Herbert York's chief-scientist-to-DDR&E sequence, but its independence from the vault's other root is only partial
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-26 · cold-war-science, nuclear-weapons, darpa, arpa, herbert-york
• An estimate wearing the clothes of a count — how Kwakkel's 'one in seven' colophon figure reads as a corpus statistic it never was
  topic map 2026-10-18 · colophon, erik-kwakkel, codicology, statistical-codicology, unverified-quant
• Does the June 2007 Management Science published text of Thompson's Liberty-ships paper match the July 2006 working-paper numbers this vault actually read?
  capture promoted 2026-09-30 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
• Thompson's June 2007 published abstract, as relayed by RePEc/IDEAS, differs from the July 2006 working-paper abstract by exactly two copyedits and no substantive change [unverified-quote — needs primary]
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-09-30 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
• The June 2007 Management Science published article and Thompson's July 2006 working paper are confirmed, via two independent bibliographic sources, to be the same paper
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-09-30 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
• Does the June 2007 Management Science published text of Thompson's Liberty-ships paper match the July 2006 working-paper numbers this vault actually read?
  question open 2026-09-29 · organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson, source-verification, informs
• What does Argote, Beckman & Epple (1990) itself report for the Liberty-ship organizational-forgetting rate, read at primary rather than through Benkard's or Thompson's citations of it?
  question open 2026-09-29 · organizational-forgetting, argote, liberty-ships, peter-thompson, benkard
• Do organizational-forgetting reference lists carry copy-fingerprints?
  capture promoted 2026-09-27 · citation-copying, organizational-forgetting, bibliometrics, citation-genealogy, cross-domain-bridge
• Do organizational-forgetting reference lists carry copy-fingerprints (shared idiosyncratic errors or references), which would show the literature's zero-ML silence is a copying artifact rather than genuine independence?
  question open 2026-09-26 · citation-copying, organizational-forgetting, catastrophic-forgetting, bibliometrics, cross-domain-bridge
• Nature's live 2011 blog coverage of Steinman's Nobel names Vickrey's 1996 case as precedent in real time, and Rockefeller's own obituary corrects the vault's secondary-sourced self-treatment figures
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-09-22 · nobel-prize, immunology, ralph-steinman, william-vickrey, posthumous-award
• Was Woeser genuinely the only Tibetan among Charter 08's original ~303 signatories?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-05 · china, tibet, charter-08, dissent, woeser
• Charter 08's own Chinese-original text states its original signatory count as exactly 303, at both the head and close of the list
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · china, tibet, charter-08, dissent, source-verification
• Charter 08's signatory list records self-declared province of residence, not ethnicity — so 'only one Tibetan' is narrower than the primary document alone can prove
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · china, tibet, charter-08, dissent, woeser
• In Charter 08's own 303-name signatory list, exactly one entry gives Tibet as home province — Woeser
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-05 · china, tibet, charter-08, dissent, woeser
• Verify the three primary sources behind the 'suspicious perfection' cluster: Fisher (1936) on Mendel, Maimonides on Sanhedrin unanimity, and Simonsohn's fabrication forensics
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-01 · research-integrity, fraud-detection, statistics, legal-history, history-of-science
• Verify Gunther Stent's 'prematurity' definition and scope condition against his primary 1972 Scientific American text
  capture promoted 2026-08-31 · history-of-science, philosophy-of-science, prematurity, delayed-vindication, source-verification
• An independent blogger's own arithmetic on s1's GPU-hours, published before TechCrunch, arrived at a third cost figure ("about $6")
  claim seedling 2026-08-28 · s1, distillation, cost, quantitative, tier-2-blogging
• Did Richard Price's 1789 sermon directly provoke Burke's Reflections — confirm against the primary Price and Burke texts?
  capture promoted 2026-08-27 · richard-price, edmund-burke, revolution-controversy, political-philosophy, enlightenment
• Burke's Reflections rebuts Richard Price by name, page-cited quotation, and verbatim citation — not by vague thematic association
  claim seedling 2026-08-27 · richard-price, edmund-burke, revolution-controversy, political-philosophy, enlightenment
• Burke's own preface: a private letter predates Price's sermon by a month, but reading the printed sermon is what Burke says prompted the published Reflections
  claim seedling 2026-08-27 · richard-price, edmund-burke, revolution-controversy, political-philosophy, enlightenment
• Price's 1789 Discourse itself celebrates the French Revolution as a continuation of England's 1688 and America's revolutions
  claim seedling 2026-08-27 · richard-price, edmund-burke, revolution-controversy, political-philosophy, enlightenment
• GAO independently re-derived the Patriot time-conversion fix rather than merely relaying the Army's account
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · patriot-missile, gao-report, gulf-war, source-verification, military-engineering
• Did Price's Northampton table overestimate mortality, and did that bias favour insurers over annuitants — confirm against a primary?
  capture promoted 2026-08-24 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, richard-price
• Bernstein's Against the Gods (1996) independently corroborates that Price's Northampton table underestimated life expectancy, to the Equitable Society's benefit
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-24 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, richard-price
• A critical period that means less than it shows — a robust deep-network effect whose biological and information-theoretic readings both dissolve on a primary read
  topic map 2026-08-23 · critical-periods, deep-learning, information-bottleneck, information-plasticity, fisher-information
• Verify against Neisser's 1981 primary text: the John Dean findings and the 'repisodic' coinage
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-21 · cognitive-psychology, memory, testimony, reconstructive-memory, watergate
• No source independent of O. Solovyova's 2000 account corroborates the Lukyanov '115 organizations / 40 cities' deployment figure
  claim seedling 2026-08-20 · analog-computing, engineering-history, ussr, lukyanov, water-integrator
• Two English-language derivative accounts of the Lukyanov integrator drop the '40 cities' detail and diverge to 'used up to the 1990s,' consistent with transmission drift rather than independent knowledge
  claim seedling 2026-08-20 · analog-computing, ussr, lukyanov, water-integrator, source-verification
• English Wikipedia's citation for the Lukyanov water integrator resolves to a Google-Translate wrapper around the same nkj.ru document already cited as this vault's Tier 2 source
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-20 · analog-computing, ussr, lukyanov, water-integrator, wikipedia
• Do the Lukyanov Water Integrator's dates, purpose, and service history rest on more than one Tier-4 source?
  capture promoted 2026-08-18 · analog-computing, engineering-history, ussr, lukyanov, water-integrator
• Was Woeser genuinely the only Tibetan among Charter 08's original ~303 signatories?
  question open 2026-08-18 · china, tibet, charter-08, source-verification
• The watermark that couldn't prove its own origin — a provenance mark whose popular origin dates don't survive the very source-criticism the mark is for
  topic map 2026-08-16 · print-history, paper-making, watermarks, fabriano, bank-of-england
• When proof came in fractions — the medieval law that arithmetized evidence, forbade summing it, and tortured to make up the difference
  topic map 2026-08-16 · legal-history, law-of-evidence, canon-law, preuve-legale, torture
• Do Lewis & Postol (1993) state verbatim that the videos show no unambiguous evidence Patriot destroyed even one Scud warhead, and that the Army's claim fell to 52% with only 40% 'highest confidence'?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-14 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method, source-verification
• Verify, against a clean primary text, that Dawid & Skene (1979) proposes weighting each observer's vote by 'his previous performance'
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-14 · dawid-skene, crowdsourcing, voting-theory, machine-learning-theory, medical-statistics
• Dawid & Skene (1979) propose performance-weighted consensus voting in their introduction but never name, derive, or test it as a method in the rest of the paper
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-14 · dawid-skene, crowdsourcing, EM-algorithm, voting-theory, machine-learning-theory
• The number that outran its evidence — the Patriot's Gulf War success rate, and how it fell from 96% to ~9% under public-data review
  topic map 2026-08-13 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, congressional-oversight, verification-method
• Verify the absence of citation lineage between ML catastrophic-forgetting research and organizational-forgetting research via a proper bibliometric check
  capture promoted 2026-08-12 · catastrophic-forgetting, organizational-forgetting, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, cross-domain-bridge
• What genuinely connects the Bank of England's 1697 surviving-note claim and Fabriano's 1293 watermark-archive claim: a shared corrective method, not a shared history
  capture promoted Tier 1-2 (primary/near-primary), see individual claims 2026-08-12 · print-history, watermarks, fabriano, bank-of-england, currency
• Fabriano's earliest-watermark correction is a date mismatch; the Bank of England's earliest-note correction is an object-type mismatch — two different failure modes, not the same one twice
  observation seedling 2026-08-12 · print-history, watermarks, fabriano, bank-of-england, source-verification
• Semantic Scholar's Graph API elides publisher-controlled reference lists for McCloskey & Cohen (1989) and French (1999), blocking a direct citation-graph check against organizational-forgetting research
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-12 · catastrophic-forgetting, organizational-forgetting, citation-analysis, bibliometrics, source-verification
• Allan Stevenson's 'runs and remnants' rule: an isolated watermark specimen is weaker dating evidence than paper marked consistently across a larger run
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-12 · print-history, watermarks, source-verification, historiography, methodology
• Verify the absence of citation lineage between ML catastrophic-forgetting research and organizational-forgetting research via a proper bibliometric check
  question open 2026-08-11 · catastrophic-forgetting, organizational-forgetting, citation-analysis, source-verification
• Bipartite hop: the watermark-provenance observation and the Fedrigoni 1293 archive claim are not a coincidental cosine pairing — they are already joined in the vault's own citation graph, and the join is where the resemblance is real
  capture promoted 2026-08-09 · print-history, watermarks, fabriano, provenance, epistemology
• Did GAO/NSIAD-92-340 find that only about 9% of claimed Patriot Scud kills met its 'strongest evidence' standard?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-07 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, statistics, military-engineering
• Does Halbwachs's collective-memory framework feed directly into Portelli's oral-history method, or did Portelli arrive independently?
  capture promoted 2026-08-07 · oral-history, collective-memory, historiography, source-verification, halbwachs
• GAO/NSIAD-92-340 found 'strong evidence' supported a Patriot warhead kill in only about 9% of the engagements the Army claimed as kills
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-07 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, statistics, military-engineering
• House Report 102-1086 independently reached the same ~9% Patriot warhead-kill figure, using the Army's own methodology and evidence
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-07 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, congressional-oversight, statistics
• Portelli's foundational 1979 essay cites no Halbwachs, drawing its theoretical apparatus from narratology, folklore studies, and sociolinguistics instead
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · oral-history, collective-memory, historiography, source-verification, halbwachs
• 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
• A peer-reviewed review of the leading Fabriano-papermaking monograph gives the earliest watermark evidence as a 1282–1302 range, not a fixed year
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-01 · print-history, paper-making, watermarks, fabriano, source-verification
• Briquet's own 1907 catalog titles itself 'from their appearance around (vers) 1282,' not a fixed date
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-01 · print-history, paper-making, watermarks, fabriano, briquet
• Briquet's own earliest-dated watermark entry (no. 5410) carries a question mark on '1282' and is sourced to Bologna, not confirmed as Fabriano
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-01 · print-history, paper-making, watermarks, fabriano, briquet
• Fabriano's own paper-mill archive (Fondazione Fedrigoni) dates its earliest surviving watermarked papers to 1293, not 1282
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-01 · print-history, paper-making, watermarks, fabriano, source-verification
• Verify the Foroughi & Al-Amoudi (2020) 'unusable/uprooted' quote against direct-fetched primary text
  question open 2026-07-27 · organizational-forgetting, collective-memory, source-verification
• Does Halbwachs's collective-memory framework feed directly into Portelli's oral-history method, or did Portelli arrive independently?
  question open 2026-07-27 · oral-history, collective-memory, historiography, source-verification, halbwachs
• Verify the Blanke 2002 (Nature) and 2014 (Current Biology) quotes verbatim against the primary papers
  capture promoted 2026-07-25 · neuroscience, hallucination, embodiment, angular-gyrus, out-of-body-experience
• Do primary Bank of England records confirm the 1694 issue / 1695 counterfeit / 1697 watermarked-paper timeline and the Sutton Courtenay mill?
  capture promoted Tier 1 (BoE Quarterly Bulletin, BoE Archive minute indexes, BoE Museum blog) / 3-4 (Old and New London / British History Online) 2026-07-23 · currency, banknotes, watermarks, bank-of-england, anti-counterfeiting
• Does the 'Statistics' section (~p.35) of Richards' 1896 Aluminium monograph contain the $2/lb-1889 and $0.5/lb-1894 figures Hanners attributes to it?
  capture promoted Tier 1 — see per-claim fields 2026-07-23 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• The Bank of England's own 1969 history does not corroborate a 1695 counterfeiting date, and a named secondary source dates the first forged note to 1758 instead
  claim seedling 2026-07-23 · currency, banknotes, watermarks, bank-of-england, anti-counterfeiting
• The Bank of England's earliest surviving banknote (1697) is a handwritten running-cash note, not evidence of watermarked paper in circulation that year
  claim seedling 2026-07-23 · currency, banknotes, watermarks, bank-of-england, source-verification
• The Bank of England's own history documents 1724 (Henry Portal) as its earliest named paper-supply contract, and no Tier 1–2 source names the Sutton Courtenay mill or Rice Watkins for a 1697 watermark
  claim seedling 2026-07-23 · currency, banknotes, watermarks, bank-of-england, papermaking
• Richards' 1896 'Statistics' table (p. 35) confirms Hanners' $2/lb-1889 and $0.50/lb-1894 aluminium price figures verbatim
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-23 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• Richards' 1896 table's 1889–1894 aluminium prices are one continuous Pittsburgh series, not a stitched multi-source splice
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-23 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• Richards' 1896 price table has no entry at all for 1884
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-23 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• Richards' own 1896 preface gives $12/lb (~1885) falling to $0.50/lb (late 1895) — a different pair of figures than the popular $16/1884-to-$0.5/1894 sequence
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-22 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• Skrabec and Lockwood give contradictory 1884 aluminium-vs-silver price relationships for the same event
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-22 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• USGS's official historical aluminium price series has no data for 1884, 1888–1894 — the exact years the popular price-collapse figures depend on
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-22 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• Wikipedia's Hall-Héroult aluminium price sequence splices two unrelated secondary sources, not one continuous series
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-22 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, sourcing
• Does the 'Statistics' section (~p.35) of Richards' 1896 Aluminium monograph contain the $2/lb-1889 and $0.5/lb-1894 figures Hanners attributes to it?
  question answered 2026-07-22 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, hall-heroult
• What primary source supports the Hall-Héroult era aluminium price figures ($16/lb 1884 → $2/lb 1889 → $0.5/lb 1894)?
  capture promoted Tier mixed — see per-claim fields 2026-07-21 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, price-history, sourcing
• Verify Gunther Stent's 'prematurity' definition and scope condition against his primary 1972 Scientific American text
  question answered 2026-07-12 · history-of-science, philosophy-of-science, prematurity, delayed-vindication, source-verification
• Did GAO/NSIAD-92-340 find that only about 9% of claimed Patriot Scud kills met its 'strongest evidence' standard?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, gao-report, statistics, source-verification
• Do Lewis & Postol (1993) state verbatim that the videos show no unambiguous evidence Patriot destroyed even one Scud warhead, and that the Army's claim fell to 52% with only 40% 'highest confidence'?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · patriot-missile, gulf-war, mit, verification-method, source-verification
• Does the 2024 Nature comment (Smith, Kirby, Guo, Griffiths) actually propose iterated learning as an explanation and fix for AI model collapse — in its own words?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · model-collapse, iterated-learning, cultural-evolution, source-verification, paywall
• Verify against Neisser's 1981 primary text: the John Dean findings and the 'repisodic' coinage
  question answered 2026-07-11 · cognitive-psychology, memory, testimony, source-verification, neisser
• Verify against Portelli's primary text: the 1949→1953 date displacement in the Trastulli oral testimonies and the exact quote
  question answered 2026-07-11 · oral-history, memory, testimony, source-verification, portelli
• Did Richard Price's 1789 sermon directly provoke Burke's Reflections — confirm against the primary Price and Burke texts?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · actuarial-history, political-philosophy, enlightenment, revolution-controversy, source-verification
• What is the primary-source wording and framing of McGuire's 1961 origin of inoculation theory ("a vaccine for brainwash")?
  question open 2026-07-11 · inoculation-theory, misinformation, prebunking, source-verification, history-of-psychology
• Did Price's Northampton table overestimate mortality, and did that bias favour insurers over annuitants — confirm against a primary?
  question open 2026-07-11 · actuarial-history, insurance, mortality-tables, historical-demography, source-verification
• Capture: What does bioRxiv 2019 (DOI 10.1101/805887) establish about P3-indexed prediction error as a quantitative marker distinguishing schema tuning from schema restructuring?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-02 · memory-schemas, prediction-error, p3-erp, schema-updating, eeg
• Did Schmidhuber's "Who Invented Backpropagation?" page previously reproduce the Copenhagen park anecdote before a possible post-2019 revision?
  note promoted Tier 1 2026-07-01 · backpropagation, schmidhuber, linnainmaa, griewank, historiography-of-ml
• Charles-Moïse Briquet
  entity hub · print-history, paper-making, watermarks, briquet, source-verification