Bibliographic record
Abstract
EARLY CONTACT For Pound the Orient primarily meant China and Japan and his initial exchange with the Far East was through visual media. Born in Hailey, Idaho and raised in Pennsylvania, Pound witnessed America's early vogue for Japonisme and Chinoiserie. His parents, like many who had admired Far Eastern artifacts at the Centennial International Exhibition (1876), had a Ming vase in their house in suburban Philadelphia. Pound entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1901, just in time for a rich collection of Chinese wood-carvings, ink paintings, and calligraphic objects mounted in the newly opened Free Museum of Science and Art, now the University of Pennsylvania Museum. On a visit to his beloved “Aunt Frank” in New York City in his last years in America, he was shown a screen-book with waterscape scenes alongside manuscript poems in Chinese and Japanese. This screen-book, a relic from Japan, was to become the main source of Canto xlix . Pound's appreciation of the Orient was, nevertheless, awakened not in America but in England in 1909, and what first opened his eyes to the unique strength of oriental aesthetic were a series of lectures on “Art and Thought in East and West” by the British Museum Assistant Keeper of Oriental Art, Laurence Binyon (1869–1943). As a frequenter of the British Museum, Pound had the freedom to inspect for himself the rare artworks Binyon had described, and as one of Binyon's circle of friends haunting the Vienna Café, he had the privilege to discuss all aspects of oriental culture with the curious as well as the expert during lunch hours.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.084 | 0.031 |
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".