Bibliographic record
Abstract
BattigelliThree years after my birth, my parents joined thousands of other southern Italians who had made the bittersweet decision to leave their beloved but impoverished homeland and seek a better life for their family overseas.You may have heard the saying: It takes a martyr to live with a saint.Well, a number of martyrs and saints made the trans-Atlantic journey with our parents, tucked away within the folds of their baggage, and even more concretely, within the folds of their conscience, which carried, in no small measure, a portion of Catholic guilt.The saints, whether they appeared on prayer cards, plates or as statues, would be displayed prominently throughout the home to bless and protect our family.They would act like beacons, giving our parents faith and hope as they navigated the turbulent waters every immigrant must face, adjusting to a new culture, language, climate, and environment.Our ship-Saturnia-arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia in April 1963.We journeyed westward to Montreal, where we stayed with family friends for a day or two and then proceeded onward to Capreol in northern Ontario on the first of May.Our family consisted of my parents, myself, my older sister Giuseppina and my younger brother Pasquale.My mother was expecting her fourth child, whom she named Cosimo when he was born in August.I didn't discover until I was much older what a difficult transition it had been for her especially, being separated from her family and friends back in Italy, dealing with nausea on the ship, not understanding the English language, and trying to get used to the snow and the cold Canadian winter!We settled in Sudbury, a mining town with clusters of Italian immigrants.My father eventually found employment at the Copper Cliff smelter plant of INCO, the International Nickel Company.When I was
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.145 | 0.071 |
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".