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22 notes carry this tag — 7 claims, 2 observations, 7 questions, 6 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.

Locate and directly read Zhang, Glassman, et al.'s 2026 'How Notations Evolve' to confirm its quotes and recover its URL/DOI

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-11 · history-of-notation, hci, sourcing, verification, history-of-mathematics
Cajori's own 1928 text hedges the Leibniz-prestige explanation for "=" and credits both Newton and Leibniz's use of Recorde's symbol, where Zhang et al.'s citation sharpens it to Leibniz alone

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-11 · history-of-notation, history-of-mathematics, sourcing, citation-fidelity, equality-symbol
Locate and directly read Zhang, Glassman, et al.'s 2026 'How Notations Evolve' to confirm its quotes and recover its URL/DOI

question open 2026-09-09 · history-of-notation, hci, sourcing, verification
Does Waddington's self-reported debt to Wiener's cybernetics rest on a primary source, or only on Tier 3–4 biography?

capture promoted 2026-09-08 · waddington, cybernetics, wiener, developmental-biology, history-of-science
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
Werbos's two "missing document" claims — the lost 1968 Cybernetica paper and the blocked 1978 DARPA report — trace to a single June 1993 oral-history sitting, not two independent corroborations

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · werbos, backpropagation, oral-history, single-witness, sourcing
Do FICO's neural-network models actually score a majority of the world's card transactions — and what is the primary source for that figure?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-02 · fico, falcon, fraud-detection, neural-networks, sec-filing
FICO's FY2008 Form 10-K describes Falcon Fraud Manager's mechanism as neural network predictive models built on patented transaction-profiling technology

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · fico, falcon, fraud-detection, neural-networks, sec-filing
FICO's FY2008 Form 10-K states Falcon Fraud Manager was used in approximately 65% of all credit card transactions worldwide

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-02 · fico, falcon, fraud-detection, sec-filing, sourcing
Every located instance of FICO's 'majority of world card transactions' figure traces back to FICO's own self-reported statistics, with no independent audit found

observation seedling Tier 3 2026-08-02 · fico, falcon, fraud-detection, sourcing, verification
FICO's own 'roughly two-thirds' reach figure has been restated with different denominators — transactions in 2008, accounts in 2021

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-02 · fico, falcon, fraud-detection, sourcing, verification
Werbos's two 'missing backpropagation document' claims — the lost 1968 paper and the blocked 1978 DARPA report — trace to the same single 1993 interview

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-01 · werbos, backpropagation, oral-history, single-witness, sourcing
ERCOT's own primary source states ~73% of its large-load queue is data centers — not the ~77% figure widely reproduced in trade press

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
The AATIP $22 million budget figure rests on contracts The New York Times says it obtained for its 2017 AATIP investigation but never published, with no public primary corroboration found

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-25 · defense-funding, aatip, verification, quant, sourcing
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
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
Does Benkard (2000) report the organizational-forgetting depreciation rate (~0.96 monthly, ~61% of experience surviving a year) that the L-1011 learning-reversal claim rests on?

question answered 2026-07-18 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, aircraft-manufacturing, sourcing
What primary source supports the Hall-Héroult era aluminium price figures ($16/lb 1884 → $2/lb 1889 → $0.5/lb 1894)?

question answered 2026-07-12 · economics, commodity-markets, aluminium, sourcing, price-history
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?

question answered 2026-07-12 · economics, wrights-law, learning-curve, sourcing
Does the Rothschild 1971 'customer-contractor' quote check out against the canonical Palgrave Communications paper or the original HMSO report?

question answered 2026-07-11 · verification, victor-rothschild, uk-science-policy, sourcing, customer-contractor
Does Thatcher's 1986 'no evidence' statement on Rothschild check out against Hansard, and what do the primaries say about the Perry/Modin Fifth Man dispute?

question answered 2026-07-11 · verification, victor-rothschild, cambridge-five, cold-war-espionage, sourcing
Does Waddington's self-reported debt to Wiener's cybernetics rest on a primary source, or only on Tier 3–4 biography?

question answered 2026-07-11 · waddington, cybernetics, wiener, developmental-biology, history-of-science