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Record W2498558798 · doi:10.1061/9780784413944.ch06

Friended by a Bridge

2015· book-chapter· en· W2498558798 on OpenAlex
Brian Brenner

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Society of Civil Engineers eBooks · 2015
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicNostalgia and Consumer Behavior
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBridge (graph theory)FriendshipMedia studiesEngineeringSociologyVisual artsArtSocial scienceMedicine

Abstract

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An online friendship becomes troublesome only when participants attempt to change categories from virtual to actual. In that case, reality may turn out to be a lot different than what was depicted online. This chapter talks about the time when the author became an active, social Facebook user and was friended by a bridge. He received an invitation for friendship from the Capilano Suspension Bridge, a Canadian tourist attraction in British Columbia. Although bridges are excellent, they are not alive, so he didn’t understand how the bridge friended him, or why it even wanted to. The author was pleased to learn that on Facebook bridges are like people. To date, he has friended the Golden Gate Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The Sydney Harbor Bridge has not accepted his friendship request yet; it is playing hard to get.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.075
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it