Bibliographic record
Abstract
JOSEPH DEWEY SOPER 1893 1982 In 1960 the University of Alberta conferred on Dewey Soper the degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa. The presentation, by Dr. Ralph Nursall, concluded with the words: “Dewey Soper is a man of action and acuity, in a particular sense l’homme engage, second to none as a pioneer of the North whose courage, industry and initiative inspire us to find our country and extend all its benefits into our lives. ” Those well-chosen words stand today as an epitaphic tribute to a man who spent the early years of his career in arctic exploration and a lifetime in the study of natural history and in pursuit of scientific knowledge. Initially, however, Dewey Soper was a disappointment to both of his parents. He rejected his mother’s desire that he enter the ministry, and the wishes of his father that he remain on their Ontario farm. He spumed organized religion and became a.true disciple of nature. He marvelled at the complexities of creation and evolution, and at the Supreme guidance in creating the perfect order of the universe. In philosophical OBITUARIES
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 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 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".