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Abstract
Reviewed by: Encounter by Brittany Luby Deborah Stevenson, Editor Luby, Brittany Encounter; illus. by Michaela Goade. Little, 2019 [38p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-316-44918-2 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-316-44914-4 $9.99 Reviewed from galleys M 6-9 yrs On what's now known as the east Canadian coast, a young man, Fisher, awakes; on an explorer's ship in the north Atlantic, a young man, Sailor, greets the day. They're stunned to encounter each other ("Perhaps these lands are not so new," thinks Sailor), yet they negotiate past language differences to share food and enjoy a cooling swim together. They part friends, each hoping to see the other again. This northern first encounter story makes a complement to the better-known Caribbean accounts of European arrival, and the folkloric flavor of the storytelling is engaging. However, it's a startlingly idyllic approach to a first encounter story (a mood enhanced by Goade's starry, watercolor-dappled pastoral scenes). Luby, herself of Anishinaabe descent, states in her concluding note that she means to demonstrate that even kindly people like Sailor could be participants in oppressive systems, but [End Page 130] that message is completely absent from the main text, and the implied audience is unlikely to bring the necessary knowledge for dramatic irony. As a result, the book struggles to find a valid use: it requires considerable adult external context to provide a corrective, and the arcadian impression of the story will either overbalance subsequent explanation or be belied by it. Nonetheless, this could be a way to discuss non-Columbian North American exploration while keeping the continent's existing residents at the forefront. Copyright © 2019 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.255 | 0.124 |
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".