“Telling the Irvings’ Stories”: A Review of Jacques Poitras’ Irving vs. Irving: Canada’s Feuding Billionaires and the Stories They Won’t Tell . Toronto: Viking, 2014.
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Very few last names stir up as much debate in New Brunswick as “Irving.” As Canada’s thirdwealthiest family and the fifth-largest private landowner in the United States, the Irvings have had disproportionate impacts on the historical development of our small province. Consequently, many people have strong opinions about the Irvings, and yet more often than not the family has tried to stay out of the media spotlight. In his book Irving vs. Irving: Canada’s Feuding Billionaires and the Stories They Won’t Tell, Jacques Poitras offers readers some of the behind-the-scenes details of how the Irvings made their fortune, consolidated economic and political power, and were later plagued by infighting. In particular, Poitras uses the Irving monopoly on New Brunswick’s English-language print media as a window through which to view the family and its dealings.
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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 | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| 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 it