Bibliographic record
Abstract
Richard W. Rees, 91, died Dec. 2, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. “Richard was a polymer chemist and inventor who emigrated from postwar Britain to Quebec, and then to the US for a 35-year career with DuPont. He was the primary inventor of ionomeric resins and led multiple follow-on patent and application-development efforts in the field. Trade-named Surlyn, the family of resins became a commercial success for food packaging and safety-glass uses. Surlyn was best known to the public for its usefulness to recreational golfers in the form of no-cut ball covers. Richard’s DuPont career was anchored at the Experimental Station in Wilmington, but included postings to the Orange, Texas, Sabine River Works and the company’s European headquarters in Geneva. In 2002, he was honored by the American Chemical Society as a Heroes of Chemistry winner, and in 2003, he received the Lavoisier Medal, DuPont’s top technical achievement award. He had
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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) | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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 teacher head, 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".