Bibliographic record
Abstract
Patrick began writing a journal in 1998 just before he retired from paid work as a result of effects of Multiple Sclerosis. He continued to write irregularly over the subsequent 5 years until he moved into a long-term care facility. He used the journal as a writing exercise, but lived with the frustrations of having to rely upon the computer first to translate his spoken words into written text and then to speak those words back to him. Although Patrick was legally blind, a wheelchair user, and lived with debilitating fatigue, he never let himself be defined by those features. Rather it was his imagination, humor, and quality of thought that captured those around him. These journal excerpts document his reflections on “life, the universe, and everything” in the words of Douglas Adams, a favorite author. The poems were written with the assistance of scribes while Patrick lived in a care facility. Patrick died on January 11, 2004 of pneumonia, having embraced the process of dying as he had his living over the previous 45 years. His family, including his research and life partner, Deborah Stienstra, and their children Rebecca and Cailum, celebrate his life and contributions.
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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 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.026 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.002 |
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".