Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviewed by: Klondike Gold Elizabeth Bush Provensen, Alice Klondike Gold; written and illus. by Alice Provensen. Simon, 200540p ISBN 0-689-84885-4$17.95 R Gr. 3-5 Bill Howell was bored and going nowhere as a shop clerk when, in 1897, his friend Joe burst in with the news that gold had been discovered in the Yukon and was lying there for the plucking. "Without a backward glance," narrates Bill, "we pooled what savings we had," and they invested in tickets and equipment for their get-rich-quick adventure. As Bill relates their experiences making their way across the border, laboriously hauling and caching their supplies along a frozen trail, and staking and working a claim, an illustrative frieze, captioned in fine print, runs along the bottom of each spread and comments more generally on how other [End Page 198] gold-seekers' experiences might have diverged from theirs. The text is sandwiched between a half-page double spread up top and this narrower ribbon of illustration at the bottom, both capturing in Provensen's naïve style the townscapes and wild vistas encountered by the adventurers; in several cases, pictures speak more clearly than text as to the technical side of gold mining. Although Howell's narration has an authentically autobiographical ring, and the jacket flap states this is "based on the true story of one young prospector," it's never entirely clear whether Howell himself is a fictional creation or whether he was an actual miner whose exploits have been repackaged for children's consumption. Nonetheless, Howell's tale is engrossing, and when he and his partner leave the Yukon after one season with a substantial fortune and still have had quite enough of prospecting, thank you, readers can begin to appreciate how toil and peril generally outweighed nuggets and gold dust. Copyright © 2005 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".