Bibliographic record
Abstract
When software engineer, Gus Grubba, and his team of Silicon Valley programmers lost their jobs to Canadian outsourcing at the digital media company, Discreet, a division of Autodesk Inc. in San Rafael, CA, they decided to put themselves up for auction on eBay. Using the handle "Team offshored," they let online bidders outdo each other to purchase exclusive rights to negotiate a contract with them. Bidding opened the last week of March and continued through early April, with a starting minimum of US $250 for the contract rights and the stipulation that all money from the winning bid would be donated to the George Lucas Educational Foundation. While the scheme wasn't an instant success, it eventually paid off after some media outlets began writing about the team's advertisement.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.020 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.029 | 0.024 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.026 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.162 | 0.084 |
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".