Bibliographic record
Abstract
This number of Callaloo is the second in a series of four we are issuing this year to mark the 25th Anniversary of the publication of the journal. This second Anniversary issue of Callaloo contains what I, as Editor, consider to be the best of the prose fiction and nonfiction prose we have published in the journal since its inception in 1976 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Standing here at the beginning of our anniversary celebration, I realize that such a claim as "the best of" is a bold gesture that is not without its own consequences, a few of which might prove to be disturbing. And yet, in spite of those consequences, such a project compels us to make selections, difficult though they may be. Thus, I am prepared not only to issue this number but to create another anniversary issue (Summer 2001) which will focus on "the best poetry" we have published during the last twenty-five years. In the long run, my selecting work for these two issues is a repetition of what I do each quarter: with advice and judgments from a team of screeners and referees from across the United States, I select and publish the best work we receive at a given time. Hence the more than 20,000 published pages of Callaloo from December, 1976, through December, 2000.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.049 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.010 | 0.014 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.054 | 0.043 |
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".