Bibliographic record
Abstract
My earliest memories of are hearing his name as part of an introductory phrase as in, says.... or According to O.L.... as if he were some sort of Zeus-like figure off at the mother school, the University of Texas at Austin. In 1983, at UT Northwest, also known as Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU), four of O.L.'s advisees were on the faculty; George Mehaffy who was my master's committee chair, Mark Isham, also on my master's committee and still at Eastern, Charles Jackson, and, during the summers, Milam Rowald. O.L.'s name frequently arose in conversations, especially those related to Mark's finishing his dissertation. Little did I realize in 1982-83 that I, too, would begin my sentences with Davis says.... Ten years later I, too, would say, says.... I recall the circumstances of my first meeting with quite vividly. When Sherry Scarborough graduated in 1983, George Mehaffy tapped me to be the president of the Omicron Upsilon, the ENMU chapter of Kappa Delta Pi (KDP). In 1984, the KDP Convocation was being held in Montreal, Canada, in April. George said I to go as the chapter representative, not that the chapter could afford to pay my way, but the chapter had to be represented and, it would give me an opportunity to meet Professor Davis, Jr. and see, as I recall, if I would pass muster and be an acceptable potential doctoral student at UT studying under Doctoral studies not been/were not in our family 5-year plan--Bonnie and I recently married in 1983 and were planning on returning to Amarillo, where she owned a house, upon my graduation in 1984. But, at the urging of George and Mark, we flew to Montreal--one of the worst experiences of our married life, but a story for another time--to attend the KDP Convocation and meet the man. During a break in the business and legislative sessions, Convocation ran from Wednesday evening until Sunday back then, George came and said, Come, Lynn, it is time to go and meet O.L. Dutifully, I checked my shirt and coat for crumbs and flakes, straightened my tie and followed George--still Dr. Mehaffy at that time--down under the Queen Elizabeth Hotel to the lower city and a small glass-walled coffee shop where this man sat a table. I was in the presence of Davis, Jr.. I don't remember what happened next or what we talked about but after a short time George and I left sitting there talking to others who stopped in because they saw him sitting there in the shop. George told me after we left that I done well and that things were going to be okay. Several weeks later, after our return to Portales from Montreal, George called me into his office to let me know that obtained a fellowship for me and I was approved to start the doctoral program in August. As I previously stated, going on for a doctorate was not part of the new Burlbaw family plan and several weeks of discussion ensued before I/we decided we were going to Austin, but only long enough for me to get my degree, and then we would be back off to Amarillo or New Mexico or Arizona where we family. Little did we know! So, what was it about this guy that so impressed George Mehaffy and Mark Isham that I to go to first to Montreal to meet and then to Austin to study with him? As I recall George saying, not just once, but many times, has more in one day than most people have in a life-time. I have no doubt that part of the Montreal conversation consisted of running some ideas by me and me making some sort of, obviously appropriate, responses. The condition of having has, for me, been one of the defining characteristics of my relationship with and his willingness to share those and to encourage me to have and seek from other. Have you thought of ... or What would it be like if ... or How do you suppose ... appear in every conversation with O.L., even if the intended purpose of your conversation was to find out when you were going to get the draft of chapter III of your dissertation back! …
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".