Bibliographic record
Abstract
IN the same year that it appeared, Sir John Harington's satirical exposé about toilets and toileting titled A new discourse of a stale subject called The Metamorphosis of Ajax (1596) received an official rebuff in print titled Ulysses Upon Ajax. The author of this counterblast has never been identified for sure, and possibilities about authorship are—if not impeded—certainly not helped by Early English Books Online (EEBO) continuing to perpetuate the nineteenth-century error of listing Ulysses Upon Ajax under Harington. The British Library continues to do the same even though the STC (2nd edn)—which still lists the piece under Harington—also identifies the piece as ‘not by Harington’. The most recent edition of Halkett and Laing, A Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Publications in the English Language, declares the piece as misattributed to Sir John Harington and provides the following useful summary: U1 Ulysses upon Ajax … An attack upon A new discourse of a stale subject (N 33); often ascribed to Harington, e.g. in the ed. by S. W. Singer (1814) and in H&L2, but decisively rejected by E. S. Donno, ed., The metamorphosis of Ajax (1962) 14–17.1
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.030 | 0.007 |
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".