Bibliographic record
Abstract
The northeastern part [of Guangxi] is civilized. Its air is pure and fine. As a result, its people are refined and cultured. The southwestern part is uncivilized. … Its air is malarial. As a result, its people are ferocious and crude. General Gazetteer of Guangxi (1531) Some time during the tenth year of the reign of the Chenghua emperor (1474 in conventional rendering), a certain Li Zongxian of Changzhou prefecture (Southern Metropolitan Region) was handed the unenviable assignment of serving as prefect of Xunzhou in central Guangxi. Unless Li was exceptionally brilliant or especially unfortunate, the prefect-designate was probably in his late twenties or early thirties in 1460 when he obtained the much-esteemed metropolitan graduate ( jin shi ) degree. It is unclear what Li's earlier appointments had been or how well he had performed in those capacities, but as he was ranked a middling 62 (out of 156) in the metropolitan examinations, it was unlikely he would have been placed on a career fast track in the Ming officialdom. Although the post of prefect was accompanied by a respectable rank of 4a (on a descending scale from 1a to 9b), it is not difficult to imagine how disappointed Li Zongxian must have been, especially when one realizes that the prefecture of Xunzhou had been the site of major clashes between the Ming military and the local “Yao” population less than a decade earlier and that neither his predecessor nor successor for the position even possessed the jin shi degree.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.001 |
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".