Bibliographic record
Abstract
“This book is a necessary reckoning,” writes Melissa Darby (p. 7). Certainly, Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe, the backdrop for Darby's work, has long fascinated and confounded historians. One oft-debated aspect of the journey centers on how far north along the western coast of North America Drake and his crew traveled. Widespread consensus is that Drake's “fair and good bay,” where the English encountered Indigenous people as they repaired the Golden Hinde, was near San Francisco. Darby disagrees. According to her research, the true location was what is now called Whale Cove, on the Oregon coast. The first part of Thunder Go North focuses largely on a retelling of the Drake voyage, including detailed analysis of the sparse and often-contradictory archive associated with the journey. Usually fragmentary, at times vague, and often occulted by political intrigue, the original sources lead Darby to conclude that the more northern site...
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.004 |
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.
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".