A Brief Biography of Bernard McArthur-Davis OBE, BA, FRICS
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is the story of a remarkable man who did many interesting things in the service of his country and profession, as related to me in a final series of letters written from 1979 to 1983 toward the end of his life, and from the many earlier conversations we enjoyed while working together in the Survey of Kenya, 1958 to 1962, at the start of which time I was in my mid-twenties and Bernard in his late fifties. We struck up a rapport that endured to the final exchanges when, as he put it, “I have always wanted to get this off my chest, to someone I can trust and the lot has fallen to you, for your sins”. I can only regret that Bernard's trust was to some extent misplaced in that it has taken me over a quarter of a century to tell his story.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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) | 0.000 | 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 it