Bibliographic record
Abstract
One arrives in the world and is disappointed. Then one goes to Rome and is disappointed. Paris, Brussels, London. Again one is disappointed. Berlin is not the city one wants to live in. One does not steal horses on the Puszta. Everywhere, the mountains are less high than one had thought. The plains less wide. The waters less deep. And in Holland, one finds the sails of the windmills too small. So one seeks out the harbours. So one deserts Europe. So one crosses the sea. But again one is disappointed. One wanders out to India and is disappointed. In China, everything is as it was at home, only a little bigger. To Patagonia one travels no more. Jurg Amann, Patagonien: Prosa (1985: 7; my translation) When Bruce Chatwin published an account of a journey to a part of the world which had come to symbolise, in the Western cultural imagination, the distance to which ‘one travels no more’, it appeared as both novelty and relic, at once literary newfoundland and lost world regained. As its premise was the mythically resonant, marvellously unlikely quest for a replacement for a scrap of Giant Sloth skin which the traveller had gazed upon in wonder as a child in his grandmother's cabinet of curiosities, believing it to be a ‘piece of brontosaurus’, and which had been discarded after her death (Chatwin 1977: 1).
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".