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Record W2217023561 · doi:10.25316/2m68-ap80

Interview with Mike Plecas

2025· article· en· W2217023561 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Mike Plecas

Bibliographic record

VenueVIURRSpace (Vancouver Island University) · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAustralian History and Society
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer science

Abstract

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Audio recording and transcript of Mike Plecas's 1979 interview with Myrtle Bergren for the Coal Tyee History Project. Plecas reflects on both his father's and his own jobs as miners. He explains how his father initially worked as a hard rock miner in Britannia Mine, but then the family moved to Vancouver Island and he became a coal miner, first in Cumberland and then in South Wellington and Granby. Plecas got his own job as a coal miner at the Number 1 Esplanade Mine when he was 19 years old, and after it shut down, he worked in the Northfield Mine. He talks about the working and safety conditions of both mines and about different pieces of mining equipment. Plecas also recalls several mining accidents, including Daisy Waugh's electrocution in the Number 1 and two of his own close calls in the Northfield Mine. He concludes the interview by talking about union organizing and his opinion on coal miners' attitudes towards the war effort.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.241
Threshold uncertainty score0.507

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.241
Teacher spread0.223 · 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 teacher head, 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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