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Record W3200167997 · doi:10.1112/blms.12547

Samuel James Taylor, 1929–2020

2021· article· en· W3200167997 on OpenAlex
Martin T. Barlow, Ν. H. Bingham

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the London Mathematical Society · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicStatistical Mechanics and Entropy
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQueen (butterfly)WifeTheme (computing)HistoryDemographySociologyTheologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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Samuel James Taylor (known as ‘James’) was born on 13 December 1929 in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. He spent most of the first eleven years of his life in Africa, tutored by his mother. James took his first degree at Queen's University, Belfast, and went on to study for a PhD in Pure Mathematics at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, with A. S. Besicovich. He was appointed a Lecturer in Birmingham in 1955 and moved to Westfield College in 1962 as a Reader and from 1964 Professor. The years 1975–1983 were spent at the University of Liverpool, followed by the University of Virginia from 1984 until 1996, when James retired and returned to the UK to settle in Sevenoaks, Kent, remaining active in research. The main theme of his life-time research involved the fine sample path properties of stochastic processes and their Hausdorff measures properties. He is survived by his wife Maureen of 64 years, his four children Richard, Charles, Jonathan, and Helen, seventeen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.795
Threshold uncertainty score0.988

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.229
Teacher spread0.220 · 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