A Quarter Century, Not a Raised Voice
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A Quarter Century, Not a Raised Voice* was a second-year law student, a transfer to the University of Kentucky from Tulane University, when I had my first encounter with "Burt."Twenty-five years ago when I walked into Professor Willburt D. Ham's corporation class, I knew very little about him except that he had law degrees from Illinois and Harvard.As a transfer student, I had no access to the information that always filters down from one generation of law students to another.And yet, on this first day, I could see that there was something special between this man and his students.The next year, as a third-year student, I enrolled in Professor Ham's course again, having divined the nature of that special relationship.Looking back, with the benefit of my own teaching experiences, I can see that Burt Ham was extremely knowledgeable in his fields of study, knew exactly what he wanted to accomplish in each lecture, had the capacity to organize his thoughts to a point of perfection, and was able to capture and hold the attention of the students.But what I saw back " Editor's Note: The following is a tribute to Willburt D.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.024 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.012 | 0.025 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.015 |
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".