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49 notes carry this tag — 37 claims, 6 observations, 3 questions, 3 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.

• Wikipedia states Fel'dbaum was "professor of missile control systems" at a Soviet military academy, 1945–1964 — uncited on the article itself
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-09-18 · feldbaum, cold-war-science, missile-science, institutional-history, unverified
• Does Rufus Isaacs's own 1951 RAND report P-257, his 1969 JOTA retrospective, or DeGroot's 1986 Blackwell interview confirm or refute the RAND-colleague bridge to Nash and Blackwell?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-17 · rand-corporation, rufus-isaacs, john-nash, david-blackwell, differential-games
• Turnbull's 2009 Coals from Newcastle was not accessible in digitized form; the Newcastle HER's page-specific citations to it support the 'Heaton Banks' name and an undated pit map, not unambiguously the 1745 closure sentence
  claim seedling 2026-09-16 · history-of-technology, standardization, railroad-gauge, wagonways, contested
• A second, independent Newcastle HER record gives the same 1745 closure for 'Heaton Banks Colliery' but cites neither Hope-Dodds nor Turnbull's 2009 book
  claim seedling 2026-09-16 · 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