Bibliographic record
Abstract
DB : Landon, in your painting, you challenge the traditional representation of the world as a world of states (no national boundaries) and even as a world of natural geography (no differentiation between sea and land), and the effects are astonishing.Could you give us some elements about this eradication of the traditional boundaries ?LM : Here we are talking about a specific piece called Vancouver as the Centre of the World, 2009, which began with questions of how I could reorganize the world onto a rectangular space while placing Vancouver at the centre.This geography seemed unfamiliar.It meant placing Russia above Canada over the pole without using a computer to figure it out.I started by getting several maps that are currently sold and still classically used.The ones where Greenland is long and narrow, the ones where it is big and broad, and as I was buying them the man in the store said, "You know, Greenland is actually smaller than Zaire".Though we know it intellectually it is still a shock to hear about this distortion because we actually start to believe the maps !I went to examine his statement and two things happened : One is that I immediately reviewed the problem of what is in a name as there are several names attached to these two locations including contemporary, historical, colonial, precolonial and linguistic.The other is the fact that in square kilometers the country in question, now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the middle of Africa and on the equator, is indeed bigger than the space in the north despite the dramatically different representation in the world.On top of this add the reality that Greenland is shrinking as the ice cap melts or falls away, and that it is even smaller today than when the survey was taken.Further a map does not explain why this geography is politically not part of Canada as all the other arctic islands in the region are.Vancouver is not where it is supposed to be Cultures & Conflits , Inédits de Regards sur l'entre deux
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.054 | 0.008 |
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".