Remarks at the Symposium in Honour of The Honourable Jean Eduoard Léon Côté in Recognition of His Honourary Doctorate from the University of Alberta
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Abstract
On 14 August 1940, a gorgeous Edmonton summer day, a baby boy was born at the old Misericordia Hospital.And quickly baptized.Whether it was because he was ill, we do not know.What we do know now is that this baby, christened Jean Edouard Léon Côté, was destined for greatness and would go on to become one of this country's true judicial giants.According to Jean: "My paternal grandmother, Cecile Côté, opened a bottle of champagne to celebrate my birth.She had kept that champagne upright for years, not realizing it needed to be stored sideways.So when she opened it, it had lost its fizz.That's the story of my life -no fizz."Au contraire.The record proves beyond a reasonable doubt that in his service to Canadians, the Honourable Jean Côté achieved the gold standard of excellence.Indeed, he is the gold standard.As a brilliant legal scholar and one of this country's leading jurists, Jean represents the best the legal profession can produce.His intellect is superior; his work ethic incomparable; and his service record sterling.Altogether that has meant a lot of fizziness along the way.How appropriate that his alma mater -to which Jean has brought great honour and distinction -has seen fit to confer on Jean an Honourary Doctorate of Laws.Jean is a direct descendant of Jean Côté who sailed from Dieppe in May 1634.Fast forward 200-plus years.Jean's grandfather, Jean Leon Côté, was working in the Yukon as a surveyor.As the gold rush was winding down, he analyzed where the best place to live in Canada would be.He decided Edmonton was the logical choice based on Alberta's natural resources and -don't laugh -the weather!Settling in Edmonton, he married Jean's grandmother, Cecile.They had five boys, including Jean's father, Jean Gustave Côté, the eldest.
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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 | 0.011 | 0.028 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.055 | 0.068 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.005 |
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".