Bibliographic record
Abstract
The music and a conversation with jazz musician Kevin Dean inspired the overall concept for the “Going Down Slow” album. Staring up at a beautiful night sky filled with bright stars evokes feelings of relaxation, calm, and peaceful reflection. A person even when alone can feel connected in time and space to others who may be also staring up at the same night sky and wondering about one’s place in the universe, the meaning of life, future pursuits, and past experiences. Often associated with wonder and imagination, stars inspire viewers to have hope for the future and grow from their past mistakes. The clusters of stars creating streaming rays of light across the night sky emphasize various pathways a person may take to achieve one’s dreams on life’s journey. The image of the night sky appears on the album cover, the insert, centre labels, and the drop card. Dark blue borders alternate with a night sky border to frame the image and focus the viewer’s attention on information given within the borders. The dark blue and black colours evoke a sense of mystery and calm. The contrasting white and light blue star clusters direct the viewer’s eye across the night sky to find yet another point of interest to encourage the observer to continue on a journey of self-reflection while listening to various songs on the album. To create the night sky image, a variety of light and dark coloured wax crayons were melted with an iron on wax paper to get a paper-thin consistency. Streaks and tiny holes naturally appeared in the design. A photograph of the crayon art piece being held up to a bright light added the necessary illumination to create small stars against a night sky. The image was then digitally manipulated to soften the lines and make it appear more realistic. Serif and sans serif typefaces conveyed the information in a comfortable and easily readable way to viewers. Bolding and spacing helped to create clean visual lines and reflect a clear hierarchy. With the fairly cohesive starry night sky image (with slight border variations) appearing on all of the album components, the music album takes its listener on an uninterrupted relaxing and reflective journey. In a busy and complicated world, it is often difficult for a person to make the time to simply stand still, breathe, and become self-aware. Gazing up at the starry night sky, listening to music, and thinking of endless possibilities would be a wonderful way to end any day. Department: Design Studies 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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.452 | 0.205 |
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".