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46 notes carry this tag — 35 claims, 6 observations, 3 questions, 2 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.

Newcastle's Historic Environment Record dates Heaton Banks colliery's closure to 1745 but records no measured gauge for its waggonways

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-09-15 · history-of-technology, standardization, railroad-gauge, wagonways, contested
Cao (2025) credits Andrey Kolmogorov with an independently-developed, near-identically-titled extrapolation theory in 1939, alongside Wiener's own

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-09 · cybernetics, norbert-wiener, kolmogorov, extrapolation, cold-war-science
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
The only new Chinese-language account this cluster has found — a self-declared dramatization, Tier 5 — also dates the Twente–Olsder–Song beer story to 1978, not 1975: convergence, not corroboration

observation seedling Tier 5 2026-09-05 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, contested-causation
What does Song Jian's original 1995 self-credit for the one-child policy actually say, in the Chinese source Greenhalgh translated?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-30 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, song-jian, susan-greenhalgh
Greenhalgh's own sentence frames Song Jian's 1995 self-credit line as addressed to his professional field, not to a population-policy audience

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-30 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, song-jian, susan-greenhalgh
Song Jian's own words, quoted by Greenhalgh from his 1986 essay, date his first exposure to population-systems-analysis to a 1978 European visit — a second independent witness converging against Olsder's 1975 account

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-30 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, contested-causation
Paul Dong's 1997 book documents a 17-paper, 16-speech bibliography of Qian Xuesen's EHF/qigong advocacy, 1980–1988

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-28 · china, qigong, pseudoscience, qian-xuesen, cold-war-science
A 1982 letter has Qian Xuesen personally guaranteeing, "with my Party spirit," that human body ESP is real

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-28 · china, qigong, pseudoscience, qian-xuesen, cold-war-science
Qian Xuesen spent his last three decades advocating qigong, traditional Chinese medicine, and 'special human body functions' as legitimate science

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-26 · china, qigong, pseudoscience, qian-xuesen, cold-war-science
Qian Xuesen recruited Song Jian into China's first cybernetics laboratory in 1962, predating the vault's 1975/1978 dating dispute by over a decade

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-26 · china, cybernetics, song-jian, qian-xuesen, cold-war-science
Greenhalgh's 2003 article states, in its own words, that it draws on 'the book in progress' the vault identifies as Just One Child

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-25 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, greenhalgh
Does a Tier 1–2 primary confirm Rufus Isaacs, John Nash, and David Blackwell were direct RAND colleagues, not just co-listed alumni of different eras?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-23 · rand-corporation, rufus-isaacs, john-nash, david-blackwell, oral-history
Rufus Isaacs's named RAND colleagues included John Nash and David Blackwell, whose 1948–1950 tenure confirms real chronological overlap

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-08-22 · rand-corporation, rufus-isaacs, john-nash, david-blackwell, person-bridge
Does a Tier 1–2 primary (RAND personnel/project records, Isaacs's own writing, or Nash's or Blackwell's own testimony) confirm Rufus Isaacs, John Nash, and David Blackwell were direct RAND colleagues, not just co-listed alumni of different eras?

question open 2026-08-22 · rand-corporation, rufus-isaacs, john-nash, david-blackwell, primary-verification
A.E. Clark's 2016 essay had the means to name Geert Jan Olsder but anonymized him as 'the Dutch authors' — a second instance, in the same essay, of the citational narrowing already found for Liang Zhongtang

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-21 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, citation-genealogy
A.E. Clark's unnamed 'Dutch authors' of a paper on a fictional island's population are identifiable as Geert Jan Olsder and R.C.W. Strijbos, via the same Greenhalgh footnote Clark's essay draws on

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-21 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, citation-genealogy
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
A.E. Clark's 2016 omission of Liang Zhongtang reads as citational narrowing, not independent absence — the name was already in the account Clark cites throughout

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-17 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, contested-causation
Olsder's 1975 account of Song Jian's first exposure to population cybernetics contradicts Liang Zhongtang's 2009 dating of that exposure to 1978

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-16 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, contested-causation
Olsder's 1975 Twente-contact account is itself a retrospective reconstruction, assembled 33 years later after Olsder learned Susan Greenhalgh's book named him

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-16 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, cold-war-science
Olsder's own account explicitly declines the causal-credit framing that structures Song Jian's self-credited one-child-policy narrative

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-16 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, contested-causation
A 2022 Palladium Magazine essay independently places Song Jian at the 1978 IFAC World Congress in Helsinki

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-14 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, cold-war-science
Geert Jan Olsder's own account traces his first contact with Song Jian to a 1975 Chinese delegation visit to Twente, three years before the Helsinki congress

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-14 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, cold-war-science
Liang Zhongtang's 2009 essay corroborates, independently of Greenhalgh, that Song Jian's population-forecasting method arrived via a 1978 academic trip to Europe

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-13 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, cold-war-science
Irino's 2026 equilibrium-dynamics model inherits its cross-correlation front-end unchanged from Jeffress-extension models — its departures begin at the inhibition stage, not at the readout alone

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · neuroscience, systems-neuroscience, sound-localization, jeffress-model, equilibrium-dynamics
Irino's 2026 equilibrium-dynamics model offers no new anatomically distinguishable prediction — it is validated by reproducing existing physiological data, with the link to perception deferred to future work

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · neuroscience, systems-neuroscience, sound-localization, jeffress-model, equilibrium-dynamics
Liang Zhongtang dates the one-child policy's origin to the State Council Family Planning Leading Group's 26-28 June 1978 'three-day meeting,' chaired by Chen Muhua

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-09 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, cold-war-science
Liang Zhongtang's own essay characterizes Song Jian's group as propagandists and justifiers for an already-decided policy, not its originators

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-09 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, contested-causation
Liang Zhongtang's own 2009 essay states the one-child policy's origin has 'hardly any connection' to Song Jian's 1980 projections, predating them by about twenty months

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-09 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, contested-causation
No source found documents a causal chain from Ranke's Quellenkritik to modern scientific-priority adjudication; the field instead frames priority disputes as socially negotiated

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-31 · historiography, quellenkritik, ranke, priority-dispute, scientific-priority
As of 2026-07-26, AISVS's `1.01-dev` development branch and every published release still omit any TOCTOU, atomicity, or concurrent-agent requirement

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-27 · ai-agent-security, toctou, owasp, aisvs, race-conditions
Bollen reports contributing a named TOCTOU/atomicity requirement to AISVS that does not appear in the released v1.0 text [unverified-mechanism]

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-21 · ai-agent-security, toctou, owasp, aisvs, race-conditions
Four documented cases of circuit theory preceding its anatomy cannot be distinguished from survivorship bias, because no survey counts the denominator of all proposed circuit theories

observation seedling Tier 2 2026-07-18 · neuroscience, systems-neuroscience, theory-confirmation-lag, delayed-vindication, survivorship-bias
No source establishes a citation link between Wiener's cybernetics and the Kelley/Bryson/Pontryagin/Bellman optimal-control lineage behind backpropagation

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · cyber-physical-systems, cybernetics, wiener, control-theory, backpropagation-origins
Rosenblatt's large-scale replications helped refute molecular memory transfer, showing any effect was 'at most very small'

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · rosenblatt, memory-transfer, molecular-memory, neuroscience, history-of-ml
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
A 2026 preprint argues sound-localization ITD readout arises from population equilibrium dynamics rather than Jeffress's discrete place-coding

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · neuroscience, systems-neuroscience, sound-localization, jeffress-model, equilibrium-dynamics
Two systems-neuroscience circuit theories waited decades for anatomical/connectomic confirmation — a delayed-vindication shape shared with AI history

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · neuroscience, systems-neuroscience, theory-confirmation-lag, delayed-vindication, connectomics
Bell Labs classical control theory (Nyquist, Bode) may be the direct mathematical ancestor of the 1950s–60s optimal-control lineage the vault credits as backpropagation's precursor — but no source read so far states the transmission explicitly

observation seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · control-theory, nyquist, bode, optimal-control, kelley
A single 'power consumption leaks exploitable information' principle appears to scale cleanly from 1999 chip-level power analysis through 2018 shared-FPGA side channels to 2026 grid-scale GPU attacks — but no single source draws this three-paper lineage explicitly

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, cross-time-bridge, history-of-computing
Susan Greenhalgh's history credits Song Jian — a missile-guidance control theorist — with engineering China's one-child policy from a 'Sinified cybernetics of population'

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · cybernetics, control-theory, china, population-policy, cold-war-science
Song Jian publicly credited his own 1980 population projections with triggering China's one-child policy

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · cybernetics, control-theory, china, population-policy, one-child-policy
Ann Hardy wrote Tymshare's SDS-940 operating system, but colleagues credited it to her husband Norman — who had to disclaim it directly

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · computer-history, credit-misattribution, gender-erasure, timesharing, tymshare
Fractal image compression's 1987 promise — encode a signal as a compact function instead of a grid of samples — structurally rhymes with 2020 implicit neural representations, though no source draws the lineage

observation seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · fractal-compression, implicit-neural-representations, siren, image-compression, cross-time-bridge
Did Harvard's Administrative Board actually investigate Bill Gates's use of the university PDP-10 for commercial software work?

question answered 2026-07-09 · computer-history, microsoft, altair, verification, unverified