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Record W2167917112 · doi:10.1093/shm/hkp074

A Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac

2009· article· en· W2167917112 on OpenAlexaffabout
Jonathan Allard

Bibliographic record

VenueSocial History of Medicine · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHistory of Medical Practice
Canadian institutionsBrock University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQueen (butterfly)Library scienceHistoryGerontologyMedicineComputer science

Abstract

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Writing from memory and aided by ‘memoranda [hastily] taken at the time’ (p. 3), Frances M. Wafer of Kingston, Canada West, produced a brief memoir of his time as a surgeon in the 108th New York Regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. Wafer humbly notes, at the beginning of his account, that he ‘does not presume to give a complete description [of] what transpired’, but that his goal was to give ‘his immediate friends a faithful [account] of his share, in those important [transactions, and also] to render a small tribute to the [gallantry and] tenacious pernicious courage of fallen comrades [and chiefs] as well as to record the deeds of some [of those] yet living to some of whom he is under [many obligations] for their kind offices in the dark [and] doubtful days, when the reality for true friends [could be] appreciated’ (pp. 3–4).

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
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: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.070
Threshold uncertainty score0.233

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0700.010

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 head0.037
GPT teacher head0.307
Teacher spread0.270 · 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
GenreOther

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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