backpropagation-gap

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Does Robert K. Merton's sociology-of-science work (or Ogburn & Thomas 1922) offer a mechanism for why rediscoverers fail to cite each other, beyond documenting that rediscovery happens?

capture seedling Tier 1 2026-11-01 · sociology-of-science, merton, ogburn-thomas, multiple-discovery, citation-history
Talagrand (2018) states, of his own field's history, that automatic-differentiation and optimization researchers 'had little contact' — a participant's account, from meteorology, of the cross-community unawareness pattern the vault documents between ML and AD

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-15 · automatic-differentiation, history-of-ml, multiple-discovery, meteorology, data-assimilation
Meteorology's 4D-Var is a sixth, undocumented independent rediscovery of reverse-mode differentiation — and the AD/optimization unawareness pattern recurs a third time, in the inventor's own words

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-13 · automatic-differentiation, history-of-ml, multiple-discovery, meteorology, data-assimilation
The authors of the founding deep-network critical-period paper explicitly declined to claim their network is a valid model of neurobiological information processing

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-18 · critical-periods, deep-learning, neuroscience, epistemics, backpropagation-gap