Bibliographic record
Abstract
discussion on the cultural presence of Italians outside of Italy could begin with a gloss of a statement by Adorno and Horkheimer: "Not Italy is offered, but proof that it exists".Our commentary on this gloss must firmly keep in mind, for example, that the Columbus quintecentenary was a reminder of the fact that the Genoese explorer set the grounds for a large-scale dissemination of an Italian etnia beyond what are now the geo-political confines of modern Italy.To be sure, the economist Thomas Sowel qualified the emigration of the twelve million Italians to the Western Hemisphere that began in the late nineteenth century as "...the largest exodus of people ever recorded from a single nation".Ferdinand Braudel was very sensitive to the implication of the Italian exodus.He doubts that the huge Italian emigration proved to be very beneficial for Italy, but he is convinced that it helped shape the development of North and South America.Braudel affirms that on an international scale the Italian emigration was a major event, moreover, the results of the emigration have yet to come to total fruition Now let us pose Braudel's statement as a question and ask "What are the results of the Italian diaspora?".It is at this point that we return to Adorno's and Horkheimer's assertion, namely, that we have no Italy, but instead only proof that Italy exists.In our view, what this means is that the proof of Italy's existence rests not on a totalizing and uniform image of Italy, rather it is to be found in the single individuals and communities both within and without the geopolitical boundaries of modern Italy.This direction of thinking is in consonance with the idea that the "Italian" is polyglot, multicultural and cosmopolitan in character, regardless of the origins of the people who make up the Italian communities scattered throughout the entire globe.Thus, the following discussion on the Italian cultural presence in Sudbury pivots on the conviction that the people of Italian origin that live there are proof that Italy exists; that is to say, Sudbury's Italian-Canadian community (like the other communities of Italian origin located throughout the world) is highly relevant to
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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".