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UC Berkeley

The organizations the life ran through. Each institution hub aggregates its people, episodes and sources — and each is a community the cascade is aimed at.

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Lived, then learned

The story of UC Berkeley

The room

Who carries UC Berkeley

Person

William L. Whitson

Nuclear physicist, Titan II, ARPA — and a two-hundred-word obituary

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Person

Stuart Dreyfus

Berkeley advisor — and the man who handed him Hinton's paper

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Person

Hubert Dreyfus

Philosophy against artificial intelligence — and Hare's mother's employer

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Person

C. Roger Glassey

The other advisor, and the NeXT machine

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Person

Jim Michael

Surrogate father, and the punch cards at Evans Hall

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Organization

Operations Research Office, Johns Hopkins

Where the deterrent was worked out

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Organization

Berkeley IEOR

“Imaginary engineers” — third floor, Etcheverry Hall

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Person

Jonathan Paul Hare

Consilient Architect — the node this graph was seeded from

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Concept

Quantum Adaptive Systems Theory: six frameworks…

Six importations, each with its defeating condition

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Organization

Digital Equipment Corporation

VAX, VMS, PDP — and the machines Hare learned on

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Organization

Impell Corporation

Nuclear safety systems — and a position outside orthodoxy

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Concept

I hid inside a 65-ton cyclotron magnet my grandfather…

A piece of his grandfather's work, used as a reading room

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Person

Larry Sonsini

One young entrepreneur a year. Thirty minutes.

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Organization

NUMMI

The Fremont joint venture where Toyota taught GM the system; visited from Berkeley IEOR in the eighties; the same building is now…

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Person

Michael Stonebraker

The professor whose database dynasty staffed the East Bay, Consilient's bench included

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In his own words

The verbatim layer beneath UC Berkeley

Every episode above distills from these. Where a page and its source differ, the source governs.

In his own words · S-029 · 2026-08-13

The dictation sessions — Berkeley through Consilient

“[Raw voice dictation, transcribed as spoken, retained unedited for provenance. Speech disfluencies, false starts and…”

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In his own words · S-155 · 2026-08-31

Vignette K: The Spring of 1992, IP Routing, and the Scott McNealy Lesson

“[RAW USER SOURCE: Direct Narrative] So when I met with Dave Marquardt, it was in the spring of 1992, whenever we were…”

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In his own words · S-068 · 2026-08-17

NUMMI — the site visit, the system, and the lesson

“[Part 1] The prize water horizon story reminds me of another lesson I learned. So when I was at UC Berkeley in the…”

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In his own words · S-067 · 2026-08-17

The Deepwater figures, checked and dictated

“I checked, and according to the records, uh, the the official cost to BP was sixty five billion dollars pretax, uh, but…”

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In his own words · S-063 · 2026-08-17

London, September 2000 — Sandra Smith, Leggate, Hayward, Browne, and the Z8

“Sandra Smith was a VP at Consilient and worked very closely with me on the BP Account. She was with me in London in…”

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In his own words · S-081 · 2026-08-19

The feature-vectors prompt: APL at Berkeley, Hinton's paper, and the ask for…

“Can you review the first attachment, which is the responses from a Google AI / gemini prompts about the relationship of…”

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In his own words · S-082 · 2026-08-19

The Gemini transcript: feature vectors, Riemannian manifolds, twistors…

“[VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT — three prompts and three responses, Google Gemini, 19 August 2026. Hare's prompts verbatim: (1)…”

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Entangled

Where UC Berkeley touches the other projections

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