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Record W2061768701 · doi:10.1109/mcse.2012.123

Nobel prizes for computational science [The Last Word]

2012· article· en· W2061768701 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Charles Day

Bibliographic record

VenueComputing in Science & Engineering · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicHealth, Environment, Cognitive Aging
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceWord (group theory)Theoretical computer scienceData scienceNatural language processingLinguistics

Abstract

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By the time you read this column, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will have announced the recipients of this year's Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry . The chances are good that computational science contributed to some of the prize-winning work. What tours de force of computational science deserve future Nobels? At the top of my list in medicine is the Human Genome Project. However, given Alfred Nobel's stipulation that no more than three people share a prize, the vast project could miss out. Particle physics discoveries typically involve Herculean feats of number crunching. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory's (SNO) confirmation in 2001 that neutrinos oscillate in flavor merits a physics prize, a share of which would presumably go to SNO's director, Art McDonald. In chemistry, I favor honoring Harvard's Martin Karplus for pioneering the use of molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate the behavior of proteins and other biomolecules. By the time you read this column, you'll know if any of my predictions came true.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.032
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.126
Threshold uncertainty score0.422

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.032
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0090.007
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0040.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1260.067

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.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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".

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