Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Alphabet Changes Direction Yvette Christiansë (bio) In the Valley of a Thousand Hills you knewyou were close to the sea and the sea,to the landlocked, a leviathan, sourceof salty healing waters brought backin old Coke bottles. Shark-backed,sardine-shoaled and crashingonto 'Whites-Only' beaches.The heavy dawn of your childhood. I was afraid, even terrified. Rain falls now, across an ocean,a continent, your own life,and the peaks you lurched againstare empty but for thin wisps of smokeyou've given up tending.And you hear, across the daysyou call your life—you see it, a road—you hear a new weeping I shut my door, I covered my eyes as this woman lies down like a child,that man burns in a crossroad of fevers.They claim him, they name him.What stalks, shakes all languageand the future tremblesfor the sweet coinage: life.B will not follow A, but makes wayfor an I who may D for die before S for syndrome. I averted my eyes, I closed my purse, Yes (guitar chord), I admitted nothing. [End Page 13] Yvette Christiansë Yvette Christiansë is a poet, novelist, scholar, and librettist. Her volumes Castaway (Duke University Press, 1999) and Imprendehora (Kwela, 2009) have received numerous awards, as has her novel Unconfessed (Other Press, 2006). Her work has been published in the US, South Africa, Canada, Australia, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Her book Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics (Fordham University Press, 2012) received honorable mention from the Toni Morrison Society. She is Chair of the Department of Africana Studies and Professor of English Literature & Africana Studies at Barnard College. Copyright © 2017 Middlebury College Publications
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 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".