Bibliographic record
Abstract
Throughout the late 1990s, much of the industrial world salivated at the prospect of electronic commerce, the marriage of technology and business that threatened to undo the verities of retail, wholesale and financial operations around the world. It is easy, even a few years on, with the excitement dissipated by the step-wise failure of many dot com visions, to forget the excitement that reigned through the last half of the decade. E-retailers like Amazon.com threatened to undermine the entire book-selling sector. On-line financial services, from bill payment to stock trading, transformed the banking and stock brokerage business. Auction sites, like eBay, reintroduced barter into the western economy. Entertainment companies, newspapers, and magazines rushed on-line, determined to find market share and hefty returns among the digiteratia . Japan lagged well behind in this commercial explosion, to the point that the country was ridiculed by those who ‘knew’ where the digital revolution was heading. 1 That the nation was not sophisticated enough to use credit and debit cards and thus participate in on-line commerce simply indicated how far behind Japan had fallen in the digital race. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
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".