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Page, P. K. (1916–2010)

2018· book-chapter· en· W4233560971 on OpenAlexaffabout
Conrad Scott

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPoetry Analysis and Criticism
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPICASSOPoetryDozenArtArt historyVisual artsOrder (exchange)LiteraturePainting

Abstract

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Patricia Kathleen Page described herself as a traveller, and invoked this status through both her poetry (under P. K. Page), and her visual art (under her married name, P. K. Irwin). Her experiences informed her work and changed her understanding of both poetic and artistic production: as she learned the former, she more fully developed the latter. Travel gave her other means with which to satisfy her creative output, but most importantly, travel necessarily made her an observer; perception has been her primary interest from poetry to paint to prose. As she comments in her non-fiction essay ‘A Writer’s Life,’ ‘I believe art has two functions: a lower and a higher. The lower is invaluable. It shows us ourselves — Picasso’s Guernica, for example. The higher — more valuable still, in my view — gives us glimpses of another order’. Alternatively a poet, writer, and artist (and prolific on all counts), P. K. displayed a supremely imagistic and visual quality that underlines her devotion to observing the world in new ways and to self-reflection. Page has had her written work published in over three dozen books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (including children’s literature), and has had her visual art collected in several permanent collections in Canada — including those of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.066
Threshold uncertainty score0.220

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0660.034

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.

Opus teacher head0.057
GPT teacher head0.230
Teacher spread0.173 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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