Malcolm Kerr Muir, FRCS, FRCOphth, FRCP
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Malcolm Kerr Muir’s death after a short illness, on 10 November 2019 at the age of 72, aborted his vigorous post-retirement career, devoted to the enhancement of ophthalmic care in low-income countries. Malcolm was very modest: quiet about his achievements and self-effacing in his story-telling. However, a lack of self-advertisement should not deny him recognition for his considerable contribution to ophthalmology. He was gifted in many fields, and a perfectionist in all he did. He was an insightful physician and an outstanding ophthalmic surgeon. His medicine and ophthalmology were approached through intense observation and a precise understanding of physiology and pathology. He had a gift for recognising technologies that might enhance the practice of ophthalmology, and this has changed our discipline. His determination that the benefits of medicine should be available to those with poor resources and greatest need has benefited countless patients in developing countries. Malcolm was the third of four children, born into a warm, happy household during the coldest winter of the century. He remembered the thrill of skiing to school, when his father’s work took the family to Canada, and the companionship of walking with his father in the Lake District. He would later develop an encyclopaedic knowledge of its peaks and valleys, completing all the Wainwright walks. The notion that he could become a doctor was implanted when his mother was unwell; he decided to look after her, although the only ‘medicine’ at his disposal was tea and biscuits. At Rugby school, he threw himself into music (trumpet and piano) and all sports, and was selected for the school hockey and cricket teams. He told of his one appearance at Lord’s, during which he tripped over the boundary rope on his way both to and from the crease, scoring only 3 runs while there (he …
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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) | 0.065 | 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 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".