Record violence in Iraq, unrest in Nigeria and refineries galore
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This section summarizes downstream developments of the previous month. Exploration & Production are covered in 'Upstream Review'. A United Nations' survey estimated the number of violent deaths in Iraq during October at 3,709: the highest monthly total since the US‐led invasion formally ended in May 2003. The 23rd November saw the highest daily total of civilian casualties ‐ over 200 dead ‐ when a Shi'ite quarter of Baghdad known as Sadr City was bombed by terrorists. Four days later, major damage was caused to the Kirkuk oilfield by a mortar attack on the field's main oil‐processing centre. The following day, all output from the 300,000 bpd field was reported to have ceased. The field is the principal source of crude supply to the Baiji refinery complex serving Baghdad. The growing violence in Iraq has also prevented the delivery of some 10,000 bpd of crude oil to Jordan under a contract that was signed in August. The oil has to be delivered by road, in the absence of any pipeline between the two countries, but it is now considered too dangerous to operate such a large supply convoy across Iraq (for further developments in Iraq, see 'Focus').
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".