A Matriarch's Picture Postcards: Capturing Life on Eastern Oregon's “Dead Ox Flat,” 1910–1920
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In August 2019, Damian Koshnick and his father, William Koshnick, traveled to visit a landscape near Ontario, Oregon, formerly known as “Dead Ox Flat” — a 200-acre homestead claim once owned by his great-grandparents, Stella and Otto Koshnick. There, Stella “diligently choreographed, wrote, and sent hundreds of picture-postcards between 1910 and 1918 to her family in Minnesota.” In this Oregon Places article, Koshnick provides a unique glimpse of early-twentieth-century life in eastern Oregon through his great-grandmother’s postcards, which document her family life and dry-farming conditions many migrants to the region experienced during that time.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.006 |
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