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Record W2759177459 · doi:10.33137/ic.v14i.40392

Bread, Biscotti, and Cappuccino: Tabling the Conversation of Culture

2023· article· en· W2759177459 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Nathalie Cooke

Bibliographic record

VenueItalian Canadiana · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsConversationArtLinguisticsCommunicationSociologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Culture is more than food and folk music, charged one participant of a recent conference celebrating Canadian writers of Italian descent) The comment was made over a late lunch and, since most of us were munching bread, one eye fixed firmly if discretely on the next mouthful - bread in our left hands, butter knives in our right - we nodded rather than voiced our assent. We all agreed. How could we do otherwise? Not only would dissent have been a rude slight to the central assumption of the conference - that culture was the soul and not the surface of a community - but we were all, at that very moment, participating in a ritual that proved his point. We were not just eating bread, but breaking it together in a ritual of community building. Besides, it would have been awkward had we spoken with our mouths too full and more awk- ward still had we not responded at all. So, together, we negotiated the fine balance required by such an occasion: the bread course of a lunch shared between approximately twelve scholars, most of them Canadians of Italian descent. Conversation, by the way, was English, spiced with the occasional Italian phrase. Given that the lunch was held in Montreal, it might have been a French language affair. That it was not was an unspoken but not insignificant negotiation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.256
Threshold uncertainty score0.483

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 studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.224 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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

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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