Bibliographic record
Abstract
All civilised men with a little imagination have at some time in their lives shared the same illusion regarding the female savages of the Americas, confusing them with the graceful Tahitians, who are not savages at all. They form strange fantasies about these dusky creatures and picture them possessed of formidable and wonderful charms. “Mexican (or Guyanese, or Chilean, or young Comanche) girls”, they say, “are enchanting daughters of unfettered nature, with the warmth of the tropics, gazelles’ eyes, humming- birds’ voices, the suppleness of liana, the bravery of lionesses, the constancy of turtledoves; with the perfume of pineapple and the satiny skin of camellias; maidens worthy of an ideal love, like Chateaubriand’s Atala, Marmontel’s Cora or de Jouy’s Amazily.” Young idiots! Not-so-young idiots! You are the ones behaving like children of nature, by clinging to such illusions! You only have to have crossed the Atlantic once or twice to have been disabused of these poetic fancies. As for the tropics, you should know by now that the tropic of Cancer is no warmer than that of Capricorn; that young Comanche girls with gazelles’ eyes have the intelligence of Canada geese; that their voices are grating; that their skin is either rough or greasy to the touch, and the colour of rusty iron; that their bravery extends only to cutting the throats of sleeping children; that their constancy lasts only twenty-four hours; that their perfume, not a bit like pineapple, is strong enough to kill the mosquitos which so torment Europeans. Besides, you young poets, Chateaubriand’s Atala was a white European girl, not a female savage at all; no other maiden like Marmontel’s Cora has ever been seen in Peru; and de Jouy’s Amazily, who called herself Marina, was a real virago according to Cortez’s companions: she fully deserved the torture with which the Aztecs so often threatened her, and after living for six or seven years with the ravager of her country, otherwise known as the conqueror of Mexico, she married a plain corporal in the great man’s army. It is said, in fact, that she ended up carrying brandy kegs in a Spanish regiment and died an old vivandière.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.037 | 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".