In memoriam: Walter Gams (1934–2017)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Prof. Dr. Walter Gams, an internationally famous taxonomist, died on 9 April 2017 in Bomarzo, Italy. He spent his career at the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS) in the Netherlands. Walter specialized in the taxonomy and nomenclature of fungi, in particular little-differentiated hyphomycetes, and was considered the world authority on the identification of soil fungi. He was influential in shaping the rules for fungal nomenclature for several decades. He was presented with the Distinguished Mycologist Award of the Mycological Society of America in 2005. Walter was an all round naturalist and teacher, and an avid amateur musician and patron of the arts. He travelled widely and had friends all over the world, who miss his hospitality and generous spirit.Significant works by this author:10.1080/00275514.1999.1206101610.1080/00275514.1983.1202378310.1080/00275514.1998.1202698410.1080/00275514.1995.12026545
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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 | 0.003 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.047 | 0.050 |
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".