“The Call of the Ice”: Tragedy and Vernacular Responses of Resistance, Heroic Reconstruction, and Reclamation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
On March 8, 2001, Jessie Elliott, Adam Wall, and Adrian (AJ) Sullivan, three teenagers from the small coastal Newfoundland community of Pouch Cove, drowned. Initial reports, which were later contested, suggested that the boys' lives were lost while jumping from one ice pan to another, in a traditional follow-the-leader or "chicken" type game called "copying." Early accounts indicated that as the boys leaped from one unstable piece of ice to the next, a large wave came up dragging one of them into the freezing water. The teenager's companions tried to help pull him back up, only to be swept out themselves into the churning seas. As darkness fell that evening, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary together with the Canadian Coast Guard combed the cove, first as a search and rescue mission, and later in an effort to recover the bodies of the three drowned boys. The next morning, the Coast Guard retrieved one of the bodies and three days later the community held a funeral for Jessie Elliott in the local church.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".