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A Sailor and a Scholar

2020· book-chapter· en· W3173144561 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Anna Botsford Comstock

Bibliographic record

VenueCornell University Press eBooks · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Studies in Science
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClothingArt historyNatural (archaeology)HistoryManagementArchaeology

Abstract

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This chapter examines John Henry Comstock's experience as a sailor and a scholar. Living as he did among sailors, it was natural that he should turn to sailing as the most available means of earning money. His first experience was on a small lumber vessel plying between Oswego, New York and Kingston, Canada. At the end of the first season of sailing, Henry had twenty dollars in his pocket after he had bought his clothing for the coming year, and with this surplus he started home. When he started school, the devoted teacher Miss Eleanor Dickinson encouraged Henry to take up algebra. It was the first time in his life that even a thought of higher education had dawned on his mind. A new world then opened to the boy, and Miss Dickinson taught him his algebra after school hours. To her influence Henry always attributed his ambition for an education; he had become thoroughly imbued with the desire for a college education and gave his whole thought and energy to his work in school. The chapter then details Henry's terms at Mexico Academy and Falley Seminary. In the fall of 1869, he entered Cornell University.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.064

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0100.005
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.004

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.

Opus teacher head0.095
GPT teacher head0.178
Teacher spread0.083 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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