Bibliographic record
Abstract
Deaths are always painful -for the spouse and family, for friends and colleagues, and most of all, for the departed anticipating the end of life.On 22 November 2008 in Los Angeles, California, one month short of his 80th birthday, the world of paediatric neurology lost an icon and one of its contemporary fathers.The World at large lost a true Renaissance Man -physician; scientist; playwright; philosopher; connaisseur of good literature, art, music and food; he was a humanist and liberal thinker who deplored discrimination, intolerance, prejudices and false values of all types.The life he lived was as interesting and inspiring as were his contributions to paediatric neurology and his understanding of the world around him, both medical and social.He succumbed to cancer and complications of chemotherapy, hoping until the end to live just one more year, to enable him to complete the 8th edition of his classical textbook of child neurology, to finish a novel he was writing based on the life of the operatic composer Puccini and, most of all, to have a little more time to spend with his loving wife Myrna.Alas he was not given the reprieve he sought.John Menkes was born on 20 December 1928 in Vienna, Austria, to become the fourth generation of physicians in his family.As a preteen, he spent years of discrimination and racism for being Jewish and even survived for several months in hiding from the Nazis by a kind Viennese family who risked their own lives in so doing.On 11 March 1938 Hitler took over Austria and Austrian citizenship was revoked from all Jewish citizens.In 1939, just days before the German invasion of Poland that initiated World War II in Europe, John and his parents were fortunate to be able to leave Austria.They went to Ireland, where John attended school.The rest of his family that remained in Austria perished.He was eventually able to immigrate to the U.S. and graduate high school in California.He then earned a B.S. and M.S.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.142 | 0.099 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".