Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
subscribe now at worldliteraturetoday.com departments Crime & Mystery 09 French Canadian Crime Writing Will It Waken the Elephant Next Door? by J. Madison Davis Poetry 12 Two Poems by Ketty Nivyabandi 24 In Alphabetical Order by Felipe Benítez Reyes WLT Interview 14 The Desertification of Society A Conversation with Richard Rodriguez by Spencer Herrera Fiction 20 Floaters by Gianni Skaragas Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor's Note | 05 Notebook | 19 Editor's Pick | 54 World Literature in Review | 80 Outpost march/ april 2014 features Cross-Cultural Humor 26 Lahti Writers' Reunion by Petri Tamminen 29 The Literary Salon by Žydrūnas Drungilas 32 Gluing by benny andersen 34 Two Poems by Haji Khavari 35 Totally Harmless Reading Coffee Cups on Freud's Couch in Tehran by Pouria Alami 38 An Offer I Couldn't Refuse by Raquel Castro Maldonado 41 Is David Sedaris Funny in Greek? by Myrsini Gana plus Q&A's with writer David Sedaris and translators Michael Goldman, George Henson, Poupeh Missaghi, Roger Sedarat, and Jill Timbers on humor in translation 2013 Puterbaugh Fellow Maaza Mengiste 46 Moments of Redemption The 2013 Puterbaugh Lecture by Maaza Mengiste 52 What We Saw by Maaza Mengiste On the Cover Maaza Mengiste photographed by Simon Hurst. A special section about the author begins on page 45. What has my work gained in translation? Perhaps it underlines the feeling of foreignness I bring to most of my stories. – David Sedaris for more turn to page 43. 20 35 24 41 WorldLiteratureToday.org Web Exclusive Join the WLT community Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, GoodReads, and Flickr to share ideas, view photos, and read book reviews. Facebook facebook.com/ worldlittoday Twitter @worldlittoday Pinterest @worldlit GoodReads goodreads.com/ worldlittoday Visit worldliteraturetoday.org for exclusive content you won't want to miss, including web exclusives, photo galleries, blog posts, and much more. Listen to audio recordings of Žydrūnas Drungilas's short story "The Blockage," illustrated by Marla Johnson, and to a bilingual reading by Burundian poet Ketty Nivyabandi with her translator, David Shook. Online Extras Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found only online at worldliteraturetoday.org. Maaza Mengiste sits down to an interview with Z'étoile Imma, plus video highlights from the 2013 Puterbaugh Festival. @TheMantle ...and the 88th year of @worldlittoday begins! Start your global literary year with the newest issue, blogs, & more! @ColumbiaUP Nota Benes via @ worldlittoday include Abe Kobo's The Frontier Within and Zhu Wen's The Matchmaker. Great list. @riffle Absolutely terrific list from @worldlittoday of current reads spanning the continents @PaulMMCooper @worldlittoday Just wanted to say thanks for the great world lit and translation links, guys. One of my favourite Twitter feeds by far! @Natteitler This year I will focus on excellence in reading material rather than quantity: 2 journals stand out World Literature Today and Paris Review. @vialosangeles1 Love this idea! @ worldlittoday: World Literature should be defined by foreignness of form. K. Anis Ahmed @feltcooperative Finnish literature is on World Literature Today's list of the year's notable translations @su_layug Congratulations on being a nominee for the Pushcart Prize @achylandia! Powerful poetry @worldlittoday @unpoetaloco @JamieLeeSearle Absorbing Q&A with Nick Caistor -- co-translator of @andresneuman's Traveler of the Century over at @worldlittoday @MPTmagazine Fascinating article, Beyond the e-Book courtesy of @worldlittoday Tweets web exclusive photo gallery audio video Web Exclusive Find us on Flickr flickr.com/wltonline 2 worldliteraturetoday.org Raquel Castro Maldonado conducts a self-interview on Mexican humor. Web Exclusive illustration : marla johnson editor's note When I first met Maaza Mengiste in May 2012 at a French Roast café in Manhattan's West Village , I was in New York to attend the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. I had just gotten into town a couple of hours before, had walked twenty blocks to attend a standing-room-only "lunchtime literary conversation" (sans lunch) at NYU's La Maison Française, then made my way to the café just a few blocks over. As soon as we introduced ourselves and sat down, Maaza immediately offered to share her tea. In my state of exhaustion—due to a combination of traveling, my hurried walk from Chelsea...
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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 it