Bibliographic record
Abstract
Michael Larsen, long-time member of The Mycolog? ical Society of America, died at home in early Jun 2000. Born in Apr 1938 in London, England, to Ann Larsen and John Futter, Mike was raised as an only child by his mother and stepfather in Honeoye Falls, New York. He was active in sports and scouting, became an Eagle Scout and subsequently volunteered as a scoutmaster. In 1959 he won a gold medal at the Pan American Games rowing in the No. 4 position on Syracuse University's eight-man crew. Syracuse University awarded him a Bachelor of Science degree in botany in 1960. Mike entered the graduate pro? gram at the State University of New York's College of Forestry in Syracuse and studied the fungi causing decay of hardwood pulp bolts in New York State un? der Josiah L. Lowe. Awarded a Master of Science de? gree in 1963, Mike moved directly into the doctoral program at the college to study forest mycology un? der Robert L. Gilbertson. Thus began a 37 y associ? ation with the tomentelloid fungi (Basidiomycetes: Thelephoraceae). The resulting papers dealt primarily with alpha taxonomy and focused on the evalua? tion of species concepts, synonymy and taxonomically important morphological characters. I first met Mike, his wife Barbara, their young fam? ily and dog Scratch in Sep 1964 when I joined the Department of Botany and Forest Pathology's grad? uate students in the attic of Marshall Hall. Mike, a lanky 6 foot 6, was anything but the stereotype of a graduate student bent over a microscope making thin sections of corticioid fungi. He was well advanced in his study of the systematics of the tomen? telloid fungi, a group that essentially had been ignored 50 y in North America, but was having trouble reconciling the species concepts of his predecessors with his observations on the type specimens. At times muttering was heard from his cubicle and occasion? ally very strong language issued forth! These comments always were directed at mycologists. Mike never spoke harshly of the fungi. Although comparative
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.035 | 0.023 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".