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Now for Sale: Oldest Paperweights

2010· article· en· W2574952551 on OpenAlex

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

VenueScience · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicLibrary Collection Development and Digital Resources
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBusiness

Abstract

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![Figure][1] CREDIT: SSPL/GETTY IMAGES Where are those Consumer Reports people when you need them? Prospector and mine worker Mark Brown of Yellowknife in the far north of Canada has got a deal for you: a fist-size chunk of the planet's oldest known rock for just $149.99 (Canadian), $249.99 with a nifty pyramidal display case. Brown has a claim on a remote island in the Acasta River, 300 kilometers north of Yellowknife, that contains gneiss that formed 4.03 billion years ago, little more than half a billion years after Earth did. “Not what I would say is the flashiest of rocks,” says Brown in his 10-minute promotional video ( ), “but I find it very, very inspiring.” But geochronologist Samuel Bowring of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, who dated the famed Acasta gneiss with colleagues, warns that similar-looking rock at the site is hundreds of millions of years younger. Brown “has no way of guaranteeing” that his samples are in fact the oldest rock, Bowring says. Aside from that, the offering doesn't really bother him. “If selling that rock exposes a bunch of people to the fact that Earth is 4.6 billion years old, it's a good thing.” [1]: pending:yes

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.848
Threshold uncertainty score0.765

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.003
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.009
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.214 · 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