Bibliographic record
Abstract
French lead miners, fur traders, and farmers were living in Missouri for eighty years before the Louisiana Purchase. Their presence is splendidly preserved in French Creole houses at Ste. Genevieve, now a national “museum village” with the largest collection of French Creole buildings in the United States, and in village layouts and remnants of common-field landscapes at Ste. Genevieve, Florissant, St. Charles, and Portage des Sioux. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, however, only in the obscure community of Old Mines do the daily lifeways of the residents perpetuate vestiges of a “French way.” Old Mines is a dispersed rural Ozarks community of mostly French Canadian origin in Missouri’s northeastern Washington County six miles north of the county seat of Potosi, sixty miles south of downtown St. Louis, and thirty miles west of the Mississippi River (Figure 1). 1 Some 1,000 people live on its forty square miles of wooded hills. The entire northeastern quadrant of Washington County constitutes a larger settlement region of French Creoles and includes another 2,000 people in the daughter communities of Fertile, Cannon Mines, Baryties, Tiff, Bellefontaine, Shibboleth, Cadet, Kingston, and Richwoods. Whereas better-known Ste. Genevieve, St. Charles, and St. Louis vigorously promote their past Frenchness to attract attention, Old Mines has continued its distinctive cultural traditions without conscious effort. It has quietly and passively evolved over the centuries, always tardily. Old Mines is an “old landscape” in the sense that the families that settled there in the late-eighteenth century are the same families that still live there after twelve generations, some descendants occupying the same houses for as long as seven generations. Unpaved ridge roads used for two centuries bend around long-abandoned mining pits in woodlands that two centuries of repeated cutting have seriously degraded. Though it appears old, poor and worn out to outsiders, the landscape is comfortable to its residents—it is home.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".