Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is a story of the relationship of Florida with the rest of North America since 1945, as mediated by people who went to the Sunshine State from the North, as visitors, tourists, migrants, and snowbirds.I look in detail at snowbirds, the category of Florida-seekers who go south during the winter for longer sojourns than tourists -typically two to six months.Being neither permanent migrants nor (real) tourists, snowbirds are liminal characters, standing on a threshold between the North and South, and thereby able to inform the relationship between the two and cast an enlightening, almost unprecedented light on the great story of Florida dreaming.As with many Florida stories, this research started from an interest in images of Florida.The palms, the beaches, the dolphin shows, Disney World, Jerry Seinfeld's parents, mobile homes and others shaped my initial efforts to decode the Sunshine State as an icon.I wondered about the reality behind them, about the interaction of the "real" Florida with the images.The curiosity was shaped by my own gaze: like most northern academics, I have long looked at Florida through a smug, middle-class, proudly Northern lens that captured the images of Florida as mildly repulsive, tainted by crass commercialism, violence, and escapism.Why go there, of all places?I wondered.Merely to escape winter, since there was so little to seek down there?Why would they do that?Winter made Northerners: historically it used to be part of the definition of their identities as Canadians, Yankees, Midwesterners, Québécois -and still is to an extent.1The northern winter has been used to explain their drive, ingenuity, and work ethic: I endure, therefore I am.Yet no Northerner embraces wholeheartedly this uncompromising, climatically determined identity.For instance, most are urban dwellers, and as such consider themselves removed from the worst perils of frostbite.Most Northerners actually have little taste for winter: they embrace the return of spring with an enthusiasm that they recognize as proverbial.Northerners, and Canadians in particular, share a similarly complex -or
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 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) | 0.601 | 0.322 |
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".