The Great Ocean of Truth: Memories of "Hudson-70," the First Circumnavigation of the Americas, by Peter Wadhams
Bibliographic record
Abstract
REVIEWS • 365 known rivers and portage routes west of Pike's Portage.Also, Ingrid Urberg of the University of Alberta has written an especially compelling chapter on the life of Helge Ingstad, who began his adventures in Canada in the 1920s as a barrenland trapper and went on in later life to discover the Viking Age site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.In 1970, I had the honour of meeting Helge Ingstad on Baffin Island, where he was still searching for evidence of Viking presence.Pike's Portage is named for Warburton Pike, an English gentleman adventurer and hunter who crossed it in 1890 with aboriginal guides.Although Pike is romanticized in this book, today many would challenge his racist attitudes and stereotypes of aboriginal people, as well as his misinformation about his Beaulieu family guides.Unflattering stories about Pike still linger in the North, especially among Beaulieu family members.Pike's Portage: Stories of a Distinguished Place is a well-written book with appropriately detailed maps and an interesting display of period photographs.Although there's not a lot that is new here for aficionados of northern history, many will find this a fascinating read about the people who have inhabited or passed through this storied place.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".