ACTIVATING HISTORY: The Living Counter-Archive of Urban Vernacular Paths
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The project began with mapping a series of informal paths and shortcuts (17 in total) created by Hamiltonians. These paths have been carved into the ground by years of repeated trespassing to, from, and across railway tracks. The inscriptions of countless footfalls, the paths form an archive of local residents’ movements through their neighbourhood. The railway is representative of formal urban planning and Hamilton’s industrial past, while the informal paths trace anonymous, everyday ways that citizens break the “rules” of the formally planned city. To highlight the importance of these paths in the lives of the local community, I erected fake notices of the City of Hamilton’s intent to formally name these informal walkways. The formal names of city streets and paths are a way for a city to officially archive particular histories, while overlooking others. The forged notices stimulated discussion in the local community around key issues: which histories get kept and whose are discarded, who has the right to name what is created by local residents, and what is the “right” way to live and move within the city?
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 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".