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unverified-quant

56 notes carry this tag — 25 claims, 1 observation, 22 questions, 8 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.

• Resamplings of the Simon-Ehrlich wager split by price metric: Ehrlich wins 61.2-63% of ten-year intervals under CPI-deflated prices, while Simon wins 54.2% under time prices
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-14 · population-policy, forecasting, luck-vs-skill, simon-ehrlich-wager, statistics
• Do the Kiel, Matheson & Golembiewski (2009) and Pooley & Tupy (2020) resampling papers support the 61.2% and 54.2% win-rate figures attributed to them?
  question open 2026-09-14 · verification, simon-ehrlich-wager, statistics, unverified-quant
• Henry Howgate's embezzlement case was legally dormant for six to seven years before Harrison's 1889 recommendation, and no source located across two research sessions ties the scandal causally to the 1890 weather-service transfer
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-09-11 · meteorology, institutions, military-history, weather-bureau, congress
• The specific 2024 quantitative figures about Heliospect Genomics remain uncorroborated by independent reporting, and most surrounding 'coverage' is republication rather than new reporting
  claim seedling 2026-09-08 · heliospect-genomics, herasight, polygenic-embryo-selection, unverified-quant, sourcing-audit
• 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
• StB interrogators pulled Jan Patočka in for a long interrogation immediately after his 1 March 1977 meeting with Dutch Foreign Minister Max van der Stoel; he died roughly two weeks later
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, stb
• Jan Patočka died of a heart attack on 13 March 1977, after lengthy StB interrogation
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-25 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, havel
• The "20% metmyoglobin → half of consumers reject" meat-color figure traces, in the citing literature, to Hood & Riordan (1973) and Renerre & Mazuel (1985)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · food-science, meat, myoglobin, kubelka-munk-theory, quantitative-claim
• OPT's primary record confirms it reported the ozone anomaly in "late 1984," but does not itself specify December
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · ozone-hole, nasa, ozone-processing-team, toms, mcpeters
• Capture: Do the MONIAC's £400 build cost and ~2% economic-accuracy figures rest on a primary source?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-20 · analog-computing, economics-history, moniac, phillips, hydraulic-computing
• Capture: Verify the primary source for the '20% metmyoglobin → half of consumers reject' fresh-meat threshold
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-20 · food-science, meat, myoglobin, kubelka-munk-theory, quantitative-claim
• Woeser was the only Tibetan among Charter 08's original signatories, per a contemporaneous specialist count
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-18 · china, tibet, charter-08, dissent, woeser
• Does a second independent source corroborate the '115 organizations in 40 cities' Lukyanov-integrator deployment figure (mid-1970s) and the early-1980s digital-displacement point?
  question open 2026-08-18 · analog-computing, engineering-history, ussr, lukyanov, water-integrator
• NVIDIA's reported ~3.76M 2023 data-center-GPU shipment figure traces only to a paywalled TechInsights study relayed by non-independent trade journalism
  claim seedling 2026-08-17 · ai-energy, jevons-paradox, gpu, nvidia, techinsights
• Does Robert Kahn's own September 1982 proposal document confirm the 'quintuple U.S. spending' figure attributed to it?
  capture promoted 2026-08-11 · darpa, strategic-computing-initiative, fifth-generation, robert-kahn, japan
• Verify Hargens & Schuman (1990)'s own figures on department-level use of citation data in hiring, tenure, promotion, and salary decisions, and confirm the source of the '5,000 departments by 1998' estimate
  capture promoted 2026-08-10 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, cameron
• Cameron (2005), citing Hargens & Schuman (1990), reports citation data already used for hiring, tenure, promotion, and salary in roughly a third of surveyed US biochemistry departments and most sociology departments
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, cameron
• Robert Kahn's September 1982 proposal cited Japan's planned AI spending as the rationale for the funding level that became Strategic Computing
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-02 · darpa, strategic-computing-initiative, fifth-generation, robert-kahn, japan
• Does Robert Kahn's own September 1982 proposal document confirm the 'quintuple U.S. spending' figure attributed to it?
  question open 2026-08-02 · darpa, strategic-computing-initiative, fifth-generation, robert-kahn, verification
• MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory was reconstituted as the independent nonprofit Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. in 1973
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-31 · mit, draper-laboratory, instrumentation-laboratory, science-policy, pounds-panel
• The CITES musical-instrument certificate originated at CoP16 (Bangkok, 2013), but the specific adoption day is still unverified
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-30 · cites, law, conservation-biology, musical-instruments, unverified-quant
• Kouwenhoven, Jude & Knickerbocker (1960) reportedly found a 70% survival rate across 20 patients treated with closed-chest cardiac massage — figure not yet sourced above Tier 3
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-30 · cpr, kouwenhoven, jude, knickerbocker, history-of-medicine
• Verify the CITES musical-instrument certificate's adoption date and operating terms against a CITES primary
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-29 · cites, law, conservation-biology, musical-instruments, verification
• Does breast acceleration during running actually exceed a Formula 1 car's g-force, and what is the primary figure?
  capture promoted 2026-07-27 · biomechanics, sports-science, breast-health, unverified-quant, verification
• The widely-circulated 'breasts accelerate up to 3G' figure traces only to a Tier 4 blog that states it as a general finding without an inline primary citation, unconfirmed at primary
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-27 · biomechanics, sports-science, breast-health, unverified-quant, motorsport
• A 2024 computational paper argues Geobacter cytochrome nanowires' measured conductivities are inconsistent with their cryo-EM structures
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-25 · electromicrobiology, geobacter, microbial-nanowires, cytochrome, scientific-controversy
• Geobacter's PilA pili are periplasmic secretory pseudopili, not the conductive nanowires
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-25 · electromicrobiology, geobacter, microbial-nanowires, e-pili, cytochrome
• Does Guberman-Pfeffer (2024) show Geobacter cytochrome nanowire conductivities exceed the redox-current maximum by 10²–10⁵-fold?
  question answered 2026-07-25 · electromicrobiology, geobacter, cytochrome, needs-primary, unverified-quant
• Did Baxter dismiss U.S. v. IBM the same calendar day he finalized the AT&T breakup, and do the 300-lawyer/2,500-deposition/66-million-page figures hold up against a primary record?
  capture promoted 2026-07-24 · baxter, ibm, att, antitrust, business-history
• TIME's contemporaneous 1982 account attributes the '66 million pages' figure to private IBM spin-off antitrust suits, not to the government's own case — contradicting the standard retelling
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-24 · computing-history, ibm, antitrust, unverified-quant, business-history
• Wanda Landowska's Pleyel "Grand Modèle de Concert" is the exemplar instrument of the piano-frame harpsichord-revival paradigm
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-22 · musical-instruments, harpsichord, craft-history, historically-informed-performance, 20th-century
• The brain's per-event learning/signaling energy ratio reverses AI's, yet at the system level both are signaling/inference-bound
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · neuroenergetics, inference-economics, training-inference-asymmetry, cross-domain-bridge, unverified-quant
• What is the primary energy-budget split in Attwell & Laughlin 2001, and does signaling (action potentials ~47% + postsynaptic effects ~34%) total ~81% of grey-matter signaling energy?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · neuroenergetics, verification, unverified-quant, inference-economics, cross-domain-bridge
• Does Anthropic's biology-of-an-LLM report state that steering the planned rhyme word changed the completion in ~70% of resamples?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · chain-of-thought, interpretability, anthropic, attribution-graphs, poetry
• Verify Jevons's Coal Question (1865) and the paradox's original framing against the primary text or a scholarly economic history
  question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, jevons, jevons-paradox, economics, energy
• Verify the dates and details of Jevons's Logic Piano — built 1869, exhibited before the Royal Society 1870 — against a primary or scholarly source
  question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, jevons, logic-machines, history-of-computing, logic-piano
• Verify the market figures Luccioni, Strubell & Crawford (2025) cite for AI's rebound effect — e.g. ≈3.7M GPUs shipped in 2024 — against primary sources
  question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, ai-energy, jevons-paradox, gpu, nvidia
• Verify the Ni1000 defense-funding figures ($1.2M DARPA, $400,000 ONR) against a primary contract or filing
  question answered 2026-07-12 · nestor, ni1000, darpa, onr, defense-funding
• Verify against a primary source that the CIELAB ab-plane has nonzero Gaussian curvature, obstructing isometric Euclidean embedding (Ahrens et al. 2024)
  question open 2026-07-12 · color-science, cielab, non-euclidean, gaussian-curvature, primary-source-verification
• Assistant AG William Baxter reportedly dismissed the 13-year U.S. v. IBM antitrust case the same day he finalized the AT&T breakup (January 1982)
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · computing-history, ibm, att, antitrust, unverified-quant
• IBM's market share reportedly fell from ~50% (1969) to 37% (1982) during its antitrust suit, partly via deliberate price hikes to look less dominant
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · computing-history, ibm, antitrust, unverified-quant, market-structure
• Kubelka–Munk reflectance theory grades fresh-meat quality by inferring myoglobin redox chemistry from color
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · color-science, kubelka-munk-theory, reflectance, food-science, meat
• In March 2022 the node-ipc maintainer shipped a version that overwrote files on Russia/Belarus-geolocated machines as anti-war protest (CVE-2022-23812)
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · open-source, software-supply-chain, protestware, npm, node-ipc
• What is AuthorityBench's actual identity — arXiv id, venue, authors — and does the Qwen3-32B ρ 75.28% DomainAuth figure check out?
  question closed 2026-07-11 · verification, RAG, source-evaluation, authority, benchmark
• Does breast acceleration during running actually exceed a Formula 1 car's g-force, and what is the primary figure?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · biomechanics, sports-science, unverified-quant, breast-health, 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 IAEA primary records confirm the Goiânia accident's ~249 contaminated / 4 deaths figures?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · radiological-medicine, radionuclides, history, unverified-quant, verification
• What is the classical Hopfield-network storage capacity, and does the ~0.14N figure trace to a primary source?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · hopfield-networks, associative-memory, capacity, verification, unverified-quant
• Do IBM's reported 50%-to-37% market-share decline and raise-then-cut pricing strategy (1969-1982) trace to a primary antitrust record?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · ibm, antitrust, market-structure, unverified-quant
• Did Baxter dismiss U.S. v. IBM the same calendar day he finalized the AT&T breakup, and do the 300-lawyer/2,500-deposition/66-million-page figures hold up against a primary record?
  question open 2026-07-11 · ibm, att, antitrust, baxter, unverified-quant
• Verify the primary source for the '20% metmyoglobin → half of consumers reject' fresh-meat threshold
  question open 2026-07-11 · food-science, meat, myoglobin, quantitative-claim, primary-source-verification
• A CITES musical-instrument certificate acts as a "passport" letting touring musicians cross borders with instruments containing regulated wildlife materials
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-10 · cites, law, conservation-biology, musical-instruments, ivory
• Do the MONIAC's £400 build cost and ~2% economic-accuracy figures rest on a primary source?
  question answered 2026-07-10 · analog-computing, economics-history, moniac, phillips, unverified-quant
• Verify the CITES musical-instrument certificate's adoption date and operating terms against a CITES primary
  question open 2026-07-10 · cites, law, conservation-biology, musical-instruments, verification
• Prussian blue: an accidental 1706 pigment is now the FDA-approved antidote for radioactive cesium and thallium poisoning
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · dye-chemistry, pigments, toxicology, radiological-medicine, cross-domain-bridge
• 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?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · fico, hnc, fraud-detection, neural-networks, unverified-quant