Bibliographic record
Abstract
My title is a metaphor, for it is doubtful that Jefferson Davis actually spent time as far east in Canada as Quebec City. Neither his financial situation nor his state of mind would have had him venture too far from Lennoxville in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, where he had moved in October of 1867. Encouraged by James Mason to come to Niagara to join other high-ranking Confederate expatriates, Davis declined. While the unpleasant irony of Niagara as the site of freedom at the end of the Underground Railroad for escaping slaves might have weighed on his mind, Davis opted for the more familial choice of Montreal, where his older children had lived throughout the Civil War in the care of his wife's mother. 1 Yet it is also a metaphor for Jacques Parizeau in 1995, whose dramatically orchestrated "Preamble" to the Déclaration de souveraineté du Québec creates an uncanny feeling for students of American history. "We entered the federation on the faith of a promise of equality in a shared undertaking and out of respect for our authority in certain matters that to us are vital. But what was to follow did not live up to those early hopes. The Canadian State contravened the federative pact by [End Page 109] invading in a thousand ways areas in which we were autonomous, and by serving notice that our secular belief in the equality of the partners was an illusion." 2
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".