Bibliographic record
Abstract
I've never had the good fortune to hear Moira Cameron sing in person.A year or two ago I heard a beautiful rendition of a Child ballad on the radio, and I knew instantly that I had to fInd the recording, whatever it was.Although it took me a while to track them down, I eventually got hold of Moira's two solo CDs, One Evening As I Rambled and Lilies Among the Bushes.Sometimes when you buy a CD you fIIid that the track you heard on the radio was by far the best thing on the album.Not in this case.Both CDs are excellent, although One Evening, the earlier of the two, is a little short: it has only about thirty minutes of music (there is also a fourteen minute story, "Mr Fox").Lilies (about an hour in length) is Moira's mature statement as a singer of traditional ballads, and you will fmd not only the singing to be fIrst class but also the choice of ballad texts and their interpretation interesting and, perhaps, controversial.Rosaleen, a ballad singer herself, has penned some critical thoughts on Moira's feminist approach to ballads in a review of Lilies.This could be the beginning of an interesting debate.Anyway, Moira is special, and when I agreed to take over as co-editor of CFMB, I knew that I should take the opportunity to fmd out more about her and spread the word.Not that she is exactly unknown in the folk community in Western Canada, but I doubt that very many of our readers in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada are familiar with her.I originally intended to try to write an article about her, but I found that the only way I could get suffIcient information was to go to the horse's mouth.And then when I looked at the results of my e-mail conversations with Moira, I realized that it would be a shame to mute the very personal voice that came through in her responses to my questions.So the following utilizes an interview format, although I have sometimes done a little editing to eliminate repetition.Here is Moira's story, as she told it to me.Dave: Moira, could you please begin by telling us about your background, your family, and your childhood, as you remember it?Moira: I was born in Toronto in Spring of 1968
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.003 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".