Toward adaptive infrastructure: the role of existing infrastructure systems
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Two recent review papers in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure have made the case for a step change in the way infrastructure is conceived and delivered. The papers define the term ‘flexible infrastructure’ and provide examples to support a case for transition. The papers present compelling alternative ideas to the current predominant mode of infrastructure development. However, they undervalue many of the advantages of centralized infrastructure systems that underpin city and national infrastructure networks. We provide some examples of the strengths of what might be deemed ‘rigid’ infrastructure and that the concepts of adaptability can directly apply to upgrading these existing centralized, networked systems. In doing so, we contribute to the debate about appropriate advances forward, highlighting the risks of technological optimism and emphasizing the importance of long-term planning and investment.
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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 |
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| 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 it