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Record W2924784685 · doi:10.4324/9780429468476-17

Last Word Society Stories No. 1 (1979)

2018· book-chapter· en· W2924784685 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Douglas M. Lucas

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShort Stories in Global Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWord (group theory)LinguisticsPolitical scienceHistorySociologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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This chapter discusses career and experiences of world-renowned forensic scientist, Dr. Douglas Lucas. "The Last Word Society" was devoted to descriptions of unusual cases, usually historical, in which the presenter had a personal involvement or had done extensive research, stories for which there probably could be no "last word." The chapter emphasizes that such presentations were "stories" and not formal "papers." Any list of things uniquely Canadian would be relatively short. Although it might include Hudson&s;s Bay blankets and custom-built lacrosse sticks, it is unlikely that most people&s;s lists would include art. There is, however, a readily identifiable Canadian art form, other than Eskimo carvings. Most Canadians know there once was something called the "Group of Seven." In the spring of 1913, Tom quit his job in Toronto and returned to Algonquin, where he quickly became a fixture in the small lumbering community of Mowat on Canoe Lake.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.265
Threshold uncertainty score0.887

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.2650.119

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.200 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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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Published2018
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