Special review of W.A.B. Douglas, Roger Sarty and Michael Whitby, et al, No Higher Purpose. The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1939-1943, Volume II
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In May of this year the first installment -volume 2, part 1 -of the new official history of the Royal Canadian Navy was published.It was launched with due ceremony at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa.The editors of The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord felt it entirely appropriate that such a work of an integral part of Canada's maritime history be given an extensive review.We had hoped to be able to offer you three reviews, namely two by distinguished English-language scholars, and one by a French-language scholar of the French edition of the work.Regrettably that last named is not available; rather than delay the English language reviews of this important work, we offer them here in this special section.When the French-language review is available, it to will be specially presented.Our reviewers are both well known in the international community of naval history and need no further introduction here.Their different careers and nationality offer interesting perspectives on the book.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.016 |
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".