Bibliographic record
Abstract
During the years between 2008 and 2011, I made a triangular pilgrimage frequently enough that it began to take on the shape of a ritual, at times a curse, sometimes a mantra.The journey was in the nature of a requirement, but it was also a pleasure, a practice, a series of epiphanic conjunctions, and it traced that time of my life in a strangely triangular way.Every week or two -sometimes more often and sometimes less -I would drive from my home in Calgary's foothills up the Queen Elizabeth Highway north.I have become an adamant Calgarian, and my journeys to Edmonton were undertaken from a foreigner's perspective and with an alien's reluctance.Although I had attended the University of Alberta in Edmonton and found there both ardent love and foundational inspiration for my writing practice, Edmonton itself is a city I am wary of, visitor rather than originary.Calgary is where I feel at home, and Calgary is where I intend to live until I die, whether that event is soon or distant.My visits to Edmonton were an exploration into the heart of oldness.I do not mean that vague category of the aged combined with euphemisms about "senior," "golden," or "latter" years, but another oldness, its frailty and frustration, its dread caducity, which can itself be traced to an older time, the eighteenth-century French caducité, from the Latin caducus, or "liable to fall."Falling identifies the cross-over zone between aging and old, the tipping point between self-sufficiency and danger.Falls are the occasion when the old grow intimate with mortality, for the medical profession attributes to falling morbidity, or conversely, attributes morbidity to falling.The whole metaphor of falling is itself laden with misery: the fall of man, a fall from grace, the fall or autumn of life before the discontents of winter and the inevitable conclusion of death.The connection between this chronic expectation and sin, transgression, lapse or wrongdoing is too obvious, but it speaks to the language and the
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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 | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.325 | 0.163 |
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".