Bibliographic record
Abstract
Newfoundland OutportsOne October weekend in 1998 I was travelling along the highway that hugs the west coast of the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, which also forms the east coast of the Gulf of St Lawrence and the Strait of Belle Isle.The winds gusted almost to hurricane strength, and on Saturday night a barge carrying pulpwood lost its cargo in the rough seas.On Sunday morning the seaward shoulder of the highway was littered with parked pickup trucks, as people scavenged to add to their winter wood supply from logs that had washed ashore.This image epitomizes a way of life that has characterized the inhabitants of both sides of the Strait of Belle Isle since earliest times.It is a life structured by resilience, opportunism, and self-sufficiency, made possible by a broad spectrum of economic activities based on the land, the coast, and the sea.This economic pluralism is eight thousand years old in southern Labrador and five thousand years old on the Great Northern Peninsula, practised by Maritime Archaic Indians and subsequently by Paleoeskimo, Amerindian, and, most recently, European peoples.It is the way of life that is depicted in this book.When Newfoundland joined Confederation on 31 March 1949, roughly 250,000 of the new province's 345,000 people were spread out along the lengthy coastline in approximately nine hundred coastal settlements that had populations of a few families up to a few hundred individuals.Most of these communities were not connected by road, and the Great Northern Peninsula and southern Labrador, the focus of this book, were particularly isolated.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.090 | 0.034 |
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".