Telling versus Counting? A Media-Archaelogical Point of View
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Abstract
There is an epistemological tension between the cultural practices of telling and counting ; this tension can be seen as a function of mediatic conditions. The thesis of the following essay is a de-mystification of the digital age, a kind of media-archaeological amnesia: the numerical, which is the basis of digital technologies, has always been performed as a cultural practice of mediating reality. While story-telling has been successful on the discursive surface, an alternative way of processing the real has always been at work before it became technically materialized. To tell , after all, does not only mean “to give an account in speech or writing of events or facts”, but as well “to count things”. Rather than attempting a linear chronological trajectory, the historical relation in history between telling and counting might be described as reconfigurations according to different media.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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