Facts about Alberta : compiled for the use and interest of visiting tourists / issued ... by the Government of Alberta.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
These Facts Will Help Us to Become Better Acquainted Hard-surfaced, dustless highways now connect the highway systems of the United States with Sunny Alberta's mountain wonderland in the heart of the Canadian Rockies.They run from Waterton Park, which adjoins Glacier National Park in Montana, to the Banff National Park.They extend northward to Edmonton with only a short section of surfacing to he completed this (1939) summer.Surfacing of the highway from Edmonton to Jasper is under way and the scenic highway through the mountains from Lake Louise to Jasper is to he completed this season.Even now, motorists may travel northward from Lake Louise to heyond the North Saskatchewan River and southward from Jasper to heyond the Columbia icefield, source of three mighty riversthe Columbia, Mackenzie andSaskatchewansystems, each pouring its waters into a different ocean, the Pacific, Arctic and the Atlantic respectively.Famedthroughout the world for its majestic scenic grandeur, Alherta is also associated in the minds of persons far removed with political and economic re- form and, quite understandahly, this is one of the fea- tures that attracts large numbers of visitors.They come to Alberta to learn for themselves how Premier William Aherhart's Social Credit Government is working out.To understand the unique political situation in Al- berta, the visitor must first consider Alherta' s geographic and economic position.This province, rich in minerals and oil, her farms famous for the production of the world's champion grains, her livestock industry rivalling those of the United States and the Argentine, and her waterways and forests yielding unlimited sup- plies of power and timher, was, despite these vast natural resources, a land ridden with poverty, over- burdened with public and private deht and struggling to maintain, in an area as large as the New England states, highways, telephones, railways, and other puhlic services for a population no larger than that of an average mid-western American city.To make things worse, a terrihle hlunder had been made in the days of early settlement in Alherta.Her southern plains, fanned hy the mild dry warmth of Chinook winds, drained of their moisture while cross- ing the Rockies from the Pacific Ocean and the Japanese Current, were verdant with rich native grasses which, for centuries, had fed countless herds of "buffalo.These prairies, in their natural state, were a paradise of pasture land which, hecause of the Chinooks, seldom experienced the severe rigors of northland winters.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.014 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.054 | 0.013 |
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".