Bibliographic record
Abstract
Are you afraid of word beaver? Would you be horrified if someone called you an eager beaver? What would you think if you heard someone with a British accent make reference to a person beavering about? Honestly, when you hear or read word beaver, what comes to mind? Is it cute, furry animal known for building dams? Is it sitcom from golden age of television, Leave It to Beaver? Is it inexplicably named Samuel J. Gopher character from Disney's animated adaptation of A. A. Milne's Winnie Pooh (and let's leave topic of pooh for another occasion). Or might it be popular 1990s cartoon series seen on cable television's Nickelodeon channel, Angry Beavers? Or do you have a dirty mind? reason I bring this up is a news story out of Canada, which United Press International (UPI) headlined Forces Magazine Name Change. (1) report notes that publishers of periodical that was known for ninety years as magazine decided to change its name to Canada's History of online pornography and spam filters. You might consider this to be a case of Internet scapegoating, but it is not without precedent. Back in 2001, when spam filters were not as prevalent as they are today, an American institution of higher learning, College, changed its name to Arcadia University. Let me quote from history section of Wikipedia entry on this school: The school was founded in Beaver, Pennsylvania, in 1853 as Female Seminary [boldface in original]. (2) Yes, that's what it says. Why? What were you thinking? And yes, there is a town, actually a borough of in Pennsylvania, situated on River, and located in County. In fact, it's county seat, and there's nothing funny about that, either. Anyway, wiki entry goes on to note that 1872 it had attained collegiate status, under auspices of Methodist Episcopal Church, and was named College [boldface in original again]. (3) So, what about more recent name change? Well, read on: In July 2001, upon attaining university status, College officially changed its name to Arcadia University. It was thought that a new name would emphasize school's position as one of top small institutions of higher learning on East Coast, and would cement its change in designation from college to university. decision was also made in part to shed its association with former commonly derided name. As then-president Bette Landman noted, [The name] too often elicits ridicule in form of derogatory remarks pertaining to rodent, TV show Leave It to and vulgar reference to female anatomy. (4) Bette's frank explanation was included in a news story written by Ron Todt, archived at ABCnews.com, and entitled Beaver College Announces New Name. Interestingly, article says that the decision was announced just after midnight at a surprise pajama party for students, who were rounded up from residence halls with less than an hour's notice. (5) No comment on that, please. After quoting President Landman, Todt continues: College has appeared on David Letterman's Top 10 list. Conan O'Brien and Howard Stern have made jokes about it. And when Saturday Night Live writers invented an annoying film critic for a recent sketch, they made him a representative of College campus radio. college's own research shows school appeals to 30 percent fewer prospective students solely because of name. And problems worsened with rise of since some Web filters intended to screen out sexually explicit material blocked access to College Web site. (6) So, maybe we should be applauding magazine for holding out as long as it did. Returning to UPI story, Deborah Morrison, president of Canada's National History Society and publisher of history periodical, was quoted as saying: To be perfectly blunt about it, 'The Beaver' was an impediment on Internet, she said. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".