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Record W4205197728 · doi:10.1017/s0960129599002996

Introduction

2000· article· en· W4205197728 on OpenAlex

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.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueMathematical Structures in Computer Science · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicComputability, Logic, AI Algorithms
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHonourWishPhilosophy of mathematicsPublicationComputer scienceClassicsLibrary scienceArt historyPhilosophyEpistemologyHistorySociologyLawPolitical scienceAnthropology

Abstract

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On December 5, 1997, a small conference was held at McGill on the occasion of Jim Lambek's 75th birthday. Subsequently it was decided to publish two volumes of papers contributed in his honour to mark this occasion: this issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science is one of the volumes; the other is Volume 6 of the journal Theory and Applications of Categories . At the December 1997 conference, a brief biographical essay was presented by Michael Barr and appears in the TAC volume. However, we wish to make some further remarks here. Jim completed his Ph.D. at McGill under Hans Zassenhaus in 1950, and has remained at McGill since then. But it is of interest to note that Jim wrote two theses: the second involved biquaternions in mathematical physics, and so foreshadows a significant feature of his career: Jim has consistently shown a remarkable range of interests, from physics to linguistics, from algebra to logic, from the history and philosophy of mathematics to the theory of computing science (although he never touches a computer, to this day!). Let us just review a small sample of his more than 100 published papers.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.796
Threshold uncertainty score0.860

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.239 · 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