Abstracts - GAC Newfoundland Section - 2008 Spring Technical Meeting
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Abstract
We are frequently asked why we refer to our annual technical meeting as the "Spring Meeting" when it is held in the depths of the Newfoundland winter, in late February.We have always had a strong sense of the absurd, and we are eternal optimists, but there is a more rational reason.In the past, the meeting was held as late as April, when the weather is truly more spring-like, even in St. John's.But we have for many years adopted a late February slot that coincides with mid-term break at Memorial University.In 2008, we did actually have some spring-like wet and mild weather, which is certainly better than the mammoth snowstorm that buried us in 2007.This year's meeting was, by all accounts, a success, with over 125 registrants in total.In addition to the technical presentations at the meeting, the Newfoundland and Labrador Chamber of Mineral Resources sponsored a workshop on exploration for volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits.As has been the case for several years, the meeting was divided into a thematic session and a general session.The choice for the thematic session was driven by strong recent interest in VMS exploration, coupled with the fact that it is now 150 years since the very first discovery of this type in Newfoundland.The Terra Nova mine marked the start of Newfoundland's first mining boom and was in all probability one of the first VMS deposits mined in the territory of modern Canada.To mark these developments, our thematic session was entitled "VMS deposits in Newfoundland -150 years of discoveries".In the end, it included a variety of talks related to regional geology and VMS metallogeny, and extended beyond Newfoundland, to New Brunswick, northern Québec, offshore western Canada, and even to the South American country of Peru.We believe that variety is indeed the spice of professional meetings, and were happy to see such diverse contributions.The special session was in part supported by the Geological Survey of Canada's Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI) program, which is actively engaged in geological studies related to VMS environments in eastern Canada.A workshop related to TGI activities in Newfoundland also formed part of the agenda, and there were many presentations by GSC geologists involved in TGI.The general session this year was fairly short, but included talks on paleontology, Quaternary geology, regional geology and experiments on immiscible liquids applied to magmatic sulphides.GAC Newfoundland and Labrador is pleased to have once again hosted an interesting and diverse meeting, and we are equally pleased to see the abstracts published again in Atlantic Geology.Our thanks to all of the speakers and the editorial staff of the journal.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.390 | 0.339 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".