Bibliographic record
Abstract
If it is correct to say that there is increasingly a convergence of law and policy in the decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada, then I think the long-term consequences will be especially challenging for the Attorney General in his or her position as the Chief Law Officer of the Crown. I say “if” that is correct because I do not want to make any special claim to expertise in the analysis of current Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudential tendencies. I am content to defer to the real experts for a reliable analysis in that area, so my remarks are based on an amateur’s superficial overview that may or may not be accurate. It goes without saying, as well, that the opinions expressed in these remarks are those of that amateur in his personal capacity and should not be imputed to the Ministry, the Attorney General or the government of Ontario.
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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 | 0.038 | 0.086 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.035 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.023 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.012 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".