Bibliographic record
Abstract
ForeWarning Charles Bowden (bio) walter, okay, i'll try the bio stuff but it's a stretch. it's kind of like hunter thompson's saw about the sixties, if you can remember it, you weren't there. i graduated from tucson high in 1963, did a little less than three years at the UA and got a b.a. (I hated college, wanted out, and because i came from hard times parents, it was essential i get a degree as a reward for all their sacrifices. it is that simple.) i got a woodrow wilson fellowship, elected to go to graduate school at UWmadison (a guy in the history department here shipped me there; i knew nothing about graduate schools and cared less since i never planned to attend or to be an academic). i was at Madison from 66 to 70, the war years as it were. i got a masters in american intellectual history and finished the ph.d. except for the oral defense of the thesis (the department would not hold it because of a spat between faculty members. to be honest, i didn't give a shit since i knew i would not continue teaching.). i did a year of three year contract at university of Illinois, Chicago Circle and then walked out because i was bored. i taught american social history and was all over the map. i destroyed my notes after each quarter in an effort to keep myself honest. i came back to Tucson and worked at odd jobs (trimming trees, mowing lawns) and then bullshitted my way into Arid Lands somewhere in late 73 i think, did two reports (the second one got me fired and was published as Killing the Hidden Waters) and then i was poleaxed by valley fever, the marriage collapsed, the dog died, and after six months of sleep, i took a job at KUAT ramrodding some NEH grants (budget, staff, office, just like a real person. the projects never got produced). it was a waste of time, i got a guggenheim, made it last two years, and hit the road riding a bicycle about six thousand miles a year. in september 1981 i had fifteen bucks and walked into the citizen, faked my credentials, got a job (the star refused to even give me an interview). i planned to work maybe six months, buy a new bike and hit the road. i got hooked by the newsroom and the news business and have never recovered. or wanted to. [End Page 5] after that everything was an accident. i quit the paper i think two or three times and kept coming back. when i finally quit i started the magazine because there was nothing to read around here and the weekly was dedicated to be toothless. the books were therapy, long versions where i could do whatever i wished. i was convinced i was living in a kind of earthquake zone, not the edge of the country, but the center of the future. this notion continues to fuel my life. chuck [End Page 6] Charles Bowden Charles Bowden email to Walt E. Bartholomew, verbatim, July 6, 2000. (Courtesy Walt E. Bartholomew. © Charles Clyde Bowden Literary Trust, Mary Martha Miles, Trustee.) Copyright © 2019 Arizona Board of Regents
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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) | 0.000 | 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 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".