Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviewed by: Giddy-Up, Daddy! by Troy Cummings Deborah Stevenson Cummings, Troy . Giddy-Up, Daddy!; written and illus. by Troy Cummings. Random House, 2013. 34p. Library ed. ISBN 978-0-375-97129-7 $19.99 Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-307-97856-1 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-375-98123-4 $10.99 Ad 6-9 yrs. "Once there was a dad who was really good at playing horsey." His awesome ability leads to confusion, however, and he's stolen away by some horse rustlers ("They lured the dad away with some sugar cubes"). His two kids track him to a rodeo and ride him away, hotly pursued by the villains. After an exciting interlude in a circus and a brief tour through a polo match and the Kentucky Derby, the family heads to Canada; when the rustlers make one last grab for their prize, the kids reveal [End Page 413] that they're actually Canadian Mounties and they arrest the bad guys. This has the rambling, slightly hallucinogenic quality of a silly story crafted by kids and parents together, and the seriousness of the dad's horse imitation is a solid gimmick that'll amuse audiences. The breathless craziness lacks a plot rhythm, however, causing the story to lose its momentum as events just pile on randomly rather than developing. The digital art is largely flat and slick, with compositions often fussily overbusy in a way that accentuates the unfocused style of the story. There's charm in the manic exuberance, though, and in the poker-faced mien of the 1960s-cartoon dad as he gallops through the pages on his hands and knees. The plot sprawl will lose some youngsters, but those raised on absurd family stories may appreciate the joke and chime in with their own tall parental tales. Copyright © 2013 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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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) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.111 | 0.088 |
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".