Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dear editor, I do not agree with the Letter to the Editor in the May issue of The Canadian Veterinary Journal (Can Vet J 2015;56:433) about the horses on Sable Island. These are indeed wild horses, not domesticated ones. They became wild horses in the same way that those in western North America became wild, by being abandoned by humans hundreds of years ago. Their habitat is no more hostile than that of other wild herds. That they are doing as well as any population of wild animals, and their feed is adequate for health, is shown by the rapid increase in their numbers. The herd grew from a few abandoned horses to over 400 and growing. Currently, they have no predators and because of the limited human contact, no exposure to infectious equine diseases. If we increase human contact, along with feed, shelters, etc., eventually diseases to which these horses have no immunity will be introduced. The last thing these horses need is a bunch of do-gooders invading their habitat to try to “save” them.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.041 | 0.034 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".