Welcome to the Installation: : Package Design for MacEwan's Book of the Year "Foe" by Iain Reid
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Foe, author Iain Reid explores a crumbling marriage set in a sci-fi world. This project attempts to bring to life the Installation, a cutting edge space station on which the protagonist, Junior, spends two years as part of a research project. It imagines what a welcome package for Junior could look like when he first arrives: Leaning against a gift box is a greeting card. “Welcome to the Installation, Junior!” He shivers at his name. Rendered in a bold serif font set on a black background, the text is warm and personal. Intended to reflect the success of OuterMore, it sends shivers up his spine instead. The box itself is supple to the touch and ringed by a band of gold. Unaccustomed to such luxury, Junior catches his vacant reflection in the embossed varnish of his name on the lid. It is surprisingly heavy, and he finds himself setting it gingerly aside. “Existence is achievable,” the insert reads. In the same bold weight of the greeting card, the words are meant to inspire, but Junior feels only his back aching. Flipping the card over, OuterMore’s slogan, “Go Farther, Be Better,” is featured under a cross section blueprint of the Installation. Junior is momentarily intrigued by the details. Below them is a list of the included gifts, followed by instructions to expect three more orientation seminars. With a groan, Junior tosses the insert and drops heavily into a chair. How the hell am I supposed to sleep without Hen? Department: Design Faculty Mentor: Constanza Pacher
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.287 | 0.149 |
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".