Bibliographic record
Abstract
Malcolm Lowry (1909–57) was a British-born writer, best remembered for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano. Born in England, Lowry spent much of his adulthood in Canada, and is sometimes classified as a Canadian author. His writing is highly autobiographical, and his posthumously published writing reveals a proclivity for incorporating text from his letters and diary entries into his fictionalised works. Characteristics of Lowry’s writing include non-linear chronology, an emphasis on memory, and an interest in the beauty of the natural world. Lowry envisioned nearly all of his works as connected to one another, part of a never-realised saga entitled The Voyage That Never Ends, which he modelled on Dante’s tripartite Divina Commedia. Lowry published just two novels during his lifetime: the largely forgotten Ultramarine (1933), and the critically acclaimed Under the Volcano. In the words of Lowry scholar Sherrill Grace, ‘the Malcolm Lowry legend rests upon two foundations, Under the Volcano and alcohol’ (2009: xiii). Lowry’s reputation as a heavy drinker was established before he went to Cambridge University, and the ill-effects of his alcoholism included periods spent in various institutions and hospitals. Lowry died in Ripe, Sussex, England, on 27 June 1957. The coroner found alcohol and barbiturates in Lowry’s system, and ruled it a ‘death by misadventure’.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.007 |
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".