American Academy of Gold Foil Operators' 2013 Distinguished Member of the Year Award
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Abstract
It gives me great pleasure to present the distinguished member award to a most deserving member. This year's recipient is Dr. David William Thorburn. His Patients call him Dr. Thorburn, his friends call him Dave, his climbing buddies call him Hey wait up, and there is a rumor that the Vancouver music underground calls him Disco Dave. He is indeed a man of many talents. His artistic ability shows in the fabulous art drawings he has completed. In fact he was so prolific that at one point he had an art studio in Vancouver filled with his own art. Then again, he also built up custom race engines for Datson race cars, so prized, that he had one of them stolen right in front of his office. When it comes to mountain climbing, Dave is really out there. He has climbed in Canada, the United States, and Europe, from Mt. Assiniboine, and Mt. Rainier to the Matterhorn. Of course he is also an avid skier, traveling all the way to the mountains in South America to ski during our summertime. However, it is Dr. Thorburn's dental talents that we are honoring today.Dave graduated from the University of British Columbia School of Dentistry in 1981. He immediately went to work treating patients in Fort Nelson, B.C., White Rock, B.C., Surrey B.C., Sardis B.C., and Vancouver B.C., before opening his own dental practice in Vancouver in 1989. He joined the Walter K. Sproule Gold Foil Study Club, and the Vancouver Crown and Bridge Study Club to hone his operating skills to the point where his name has become synonymous with exceptionally fine quality restorative dentistry. His patients are very fortunate to have him as their dentist.Dave served on the executive council of this Gold Foil Academy from 2001 through 2003, served as vice president in 2004, president elect in 2005 and President of the American Academy of Gold Foil Operators in 2006.Never selfish, but always trying to help other dentists at his own expense, David has made a special effort to pass on the skills he has perfected to dental students and the general dental community. He has been a clinical instructor for the Vancouver Community College Dental Hygiene Department, a clinical instructor for the 3rd year students at the University of British Columbia School of Dentistry, a clinical instructor for the 4th year students at the University of British Columbia School of Dentistry. Dave also presented a two-day Gold Foil course in Corona, Italy and taught the Vancouver Gold Foil Seminar, a one-week course limited to practicing dentists, for 15 years. In addition, he provided hundreds of patients for the course from his own private practice. He has given many lectures and presentations to various dental organizations, but it is his clinical demonstrations on live patients that are unsurpassed, providing treatment that will last a lifetime. It has been shear enjoyment to watch him create dental works of perfection for the patient, that, as the observer, I could take pleasure in, as you would enjoy any fine piece of art. Please rise and join me in congratulating Dr. David William Thorburn, our Distinguished Member.Submitted by Dr Richard D TuckerPresented at the 2013 AAGFO MeetingLincoln, NE 26 October 2013
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.232 | 0.111 |
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".