Bibliographic record
Abstract
The essays in this volume seek to advance a single and simple theme -that mankind has found four better ways of going about things: freedom, science-based technologies and processes, mutual accommodation, and compassion.These methods are best when they are balanced and go hand in hand.Freedom and science have been dominant in the West since the Renaissance.This emphasis has led to two results.It has brought the accumulated post-Renaissance achievements into today's first global moment in history.It has also provoked populism and the current rise of centrifugal forces within and between countries.Mutual accommodation is urgently needed if the outcome is to be bearable and a new Dark Age avoided.I discovered Alfred North Whitehead at a bookstore near McGill University when I was a student there in the years 1945-48.As a professor at the University of Cambridge, Whitehead had been a philosopher of mathematics and then of science.After he moved to Harvard University in 1923, he became a philosopher of everything.Recently, I have begun to wonder if two of Whitehead's ideas are now coming together in Canada.First, civilization (Canada) is the triumph of persuasion over force.* Second, quantum particles can be in more than one place at the same time.† If true, that would mean * Alfred North Whitehead, "From Force to Persuasion," Adventures of Ideas (1933), chap. 5.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.475 | 0.279 |
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".