Bibliographic record
Abstract
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of immigration and identity is a Polish word: gone missing.Emigration has never been far away from the Polish consciousness, either as an inevitable and tragic fall-out of the chequered Polish history, or as a coveted escape from the post-WWII communist prison.Emigration as political exile was part of our Polish fate; once outside, an emigrant could long for Poland and dream of return-in spirit, if everything else failed.When I was growing up, emigration in Polish conversations returned as a dream of escape from the daily humiliations of life in the People's Republic, a dream that concluded with an act of leaving, "the happily ever after" of fairy tales.Beyond it, there was little else to talk about.At the Canadian border, in August of 1981, my Polish passport was stamped with the seal of Canadian Immigration, and this is when it struck me how, in Poland, the word "immigration" was hardly ever used, and how the act of leaving was no longer the end of the story.What was Canada, then, for me?A vaguely-realized land of peace and prosperity.A nebulous construct based on the lack of problems that defined my Polish existence.A jumble of incongruous associations.Anne of Green Gables, which every Polish girl I knew grew up loving.Leonard Cohen, with his throaty songs of romantic melancholy that spoke to the Polish soul.Grey Owl and his Beaver People.Arkady Fidler, who claimed that this is a country smelling of pine resin.There were also other, less benign associations."Kanada" was the name of the Auschwitz barracks where the stolen property of the victims was stored.A land of plenty a rebours, even there.There was the flamboyant Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and the Montreal Olympics of 1976.My parents, natural scientists both, gave me a crash course in geological and paleontological wonders.Newfoundland, I learnt, not only has some of the oldest rocks in the world, but the rocks that come in unusual sequences, the evidence of colliding continents and
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.004 | 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) | 0.002 | 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".