Field Notes on Design Activism: 1
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A public library — accessible to all, irrespective of economic and social backgrounds — is an especially poignant symbol of a city that values social justice. Angelou’s memory of racial discrimination in a segregated library in the American South could be mitigated by the robust publicness of the New York City library. She could walk right up the steps of this library and feel that she could enter without having to pass exclusionary barriers. The assurance that you can access opportunity without facing social and economic hurdles is a monumentally empowering condition. When that feeling is pervasive among a city’s people of all ethnicities, ages, economic and social classes, genders, and physical abilities, then that city is fair, and practices social justice as its moral foundation.
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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 | 0.021 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.034 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.011 | 0.015 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.035 | 0.004 |
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".