45 BEACON
Bibliographic record
Abstract
recently had the privilege of participating in a formal debate that was held as the closing session of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting. The topic of the debate was: "Be it resolved . . . that it is time to kill print" This represented a timely and provocative topic among this crowd of publishers (both nonprofit and for profit), publishing vendors, and librarians. Each side had two debaters (a librarian paired with a publisher), and the teams chose which side of the resolution to argue more or less by lot. My debating partner and I ended up on the side arguing in favor of the resolution--that is, that all of us who publish journals should stop printing them and only deliver the content online. This is an issue the AMS must face at some point, so it seems appropriate to use this column to relate the substance of this session. Even though the debate format was intended to provide an enjoyable and somewhat lighthearted closing event for the SSP meeting, ever/one in the audience that afternoon has been seriously grappling with the "if, when, and how" of discontinuing print journals in favor of online delivery.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".