Bibliographic record
Abstract
DiegoBastianutti's life story, as told in this autobiographical account, begins with a warm homage to his life companion for the past thirty-odd years, his wife, Giusy.Their years together have been very happy, fulfilling, and productive.This is not to say that the fifty years that flowed before this "seismic shift, " as the author calls it, do not matter, or are of no consequence.On the contrary, the "before" years, remembered as often dim and confused memories, become the substance and essence of the story.These memories begin to have significance and importance, in other words, only after being painstakingly reassembled by the author, as an archeologist working with scattered shards of long-buried artifacts emerging into the light, similar to pieces of a puzzle finally acquiring form and meaning.This book slowly unravels the meaning of those "before" years, in what Bastianutti refers to as a nomadic life lived "in many places, in many cities, many spaces […] but very few that I had truly 'inhabited'137).This is one of the symptoms of a malaise that will be easily recognized by anyone who has experienced migration and uprooting and has painfully clung to the memory of a home lost forever.The fact that "home" in this story is ultimately identified with a woman is as old as the story of Ulysses in Homer's Odyssey.It is not a coincidence that the navigational metaphor, or actual references to sailing, at which Bastianutti is quite adept, recurs frequently in the book -and in his poetry.In the case of Bastianutti the irretrievable home was Fiume, where he was born in 1939.He and his family were therefore part of that Giuliano Dalmata community forced into exile, a people forcefully uprooted and dispersed by political events during the tragic aftermath of the Second World War.Still only a child upon leaving Fiume with his family, settling briefly in Liguria, then still an adolescent crossing the ocean to the United States, moving from city to city, the young Diego crossed many borders.Eventually ending up in Kingston, Ontario, he was sustained into adulthood and then mid-life by a strong urge to return to Italy.It was a dream of many young men and women, unprepared to face a society they felt as alien in those postwar years, who
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.005 |
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".