Bibliographic record
Abstract
Whatever the ulterior motives on either side, the policies pursued by British and Afrikaner politicians between 1906 and 1909 did result in an improvement in the general atmosphere. British victory in 1901 had made one thing certain, that the constitutional shape of the future South Africa would have a British-monarchical complexion, tied to the empire, and not a Boer-republican one outside it. Within these parameters there now emerged a considerable convergence on unification as the next goal. Both sides began to feel more optimistic. With Het Volk in power in the Transvaal and Orangia Unie in the Free State, and with the South African Party having ousted Jameson's Progressives from office in the Cape, the Afrikaners began to feel that even if power was not immediately within their grasp, at least time and demography were in their favour. Botha and Smuts quickly won good opinions in London, and British policy-makers were ready to contemplate unification, confident that the British lion would prevail. They believed that a stronger, rationalised, and more grateful South Africa would be in British imperial and strategic interests. A further attraction was that the Union should produce a less parochial regime for Africans in Natal, where Zulu disturbances had been met with a disconcerting degree of panic and unimaginative brutality, thus earning it the Churchillian epithet of ‘the hooligan of the British empire’.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".