Book Review of: O’Sullivan, Patrick and Joyce, Gare (2015). Breaking Away: A Harrowing True Story of Resilience, Courage, and Triumph. Toronto: HarperCollins.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the book "Breaking Away" by Patrick O'Sullivan and Gare Joyce, Patrick recounts his story of growing up with an abusive father who went to extreme lengths with the intent to make him into an NHL star.Patrick was born to John O'Sullivan and his wife Cathie O'Sullivan in February of 1985.Patrick's father was a failed hockey player, he simply did not have the skill to make it as a professional.He attributed his failure to a late start in the game; the fault of his own father.Once Patrick took an interest in hockey, it became his father's obsession.He was determined to make Patrick the star that he was never able to be and would do anything in his power to make that happen.Patrick started playing hockey at the age of six and was a natural.Patrick indicated that his training took over his life.His father forced him to practice at any free moment, leaving him no time to socialize with other kids and make friends.His father started to become more verbally and physically abusive, using derogatory language and slapping the back of Patrick's head as a punishment.He would scream at Patrick from behind the boards and criticize everything he did on the ride home.As Patrick grew older, he would be pulled out of school on the days his father did not work to go practice.His father's obsession with his training became so intense that he would be woken up in the middle of the night and put through rigorous physical workouts.He would be beaten or locked outside in the cold if he was not working hard enough and even be
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.125 | 0.086 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".