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Record W2500363645 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511613005.025

Epilogue: a view to the future

2010· book-chapter· en· W2500363645 on OpenAlexaff
Eugene F. Stoermer, John P. Smol

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2010
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicScience, Research, and Medicine
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPlan (archaeology)Point (geometry)EpistemologyManagement scienceComputer scienceHistoryEngineeringPhilosophyMathematicsArchaeology

Abstract

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At this point it is appropriate, if not necessarily wise, to attempt a brief view into the future. By its very nature, scientific research is not usually kind to those who would attempt to plan it, or even forecast its future direction. Be this as it may, it seems to us that some of the immediate future directions in applied diatom studies seem almost foreordained. It is very clear that a good deal of effort needs to be devoted to the formalities of taxonomy and nomenclature, which have been sadly neglected for the past century. Great strides have been made very recently in the alpha level taxonomy of diatoms (e.g., Lange-Bertalot & Metzelin, 1996). It has also become much more common for diatomists to document their work in published iconographs (e.g., Douglas & Smol, 1993; Cumming et al., 1995) followed by deposition of properly vouchered material from major studies. Even more promising, the application of modern systematic techniques to diatoms (e.g., Kociolek & Stoermer, 1989; Kociolek et al., 1989; Theriot & Stoermer, 1984; Williams, 1985) is becoming more and more established. However, it is also true that relatively few diatomists are formally trained systematists. The very increase in interest in diatom taxonomy, particularly that part fueled by practical applications, has left behind it a virtual morass of nomenclatorial problems. Unfortunately, many well-intentioned attempts to alleviate the situation have resulted in inappropriate synonymies, conservations, and circumscriptions, which only serve to further complicate it.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.069
Threshold uncertainty score0.232

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.009
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0690.016

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 head0.029
GPT teacher head0.251
Teacher spread0.222 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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".

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