Bibliographic record
Abstract
Crack was written a couple of years after I moved to Hamilton Ontario. I was the founding artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto for eighteen years (from 1979 to 1997) and moved to Hamilton in 2003. The move was very much a class issue: as my partner and I are both artists, we didn’t have enough capital to purchase a house in Toronto, where the average price of three-bedroom home has easily been over four-hundred-thousand dollars lately. Also, the condo boom in downtown Toronto was getting on our nerves. After a condo arrives in a community, the big box stores and chains that accompany it kill the small businesses and the street life that was once so charming, diverse, and intimate. Recently, the Drake Hotel, the Gladstone Hotel and the Distillery District were created arbitrarily — not by artists, but by administrators and entrepreneurs obsessed with gentrification. The messy, cross-class Queen Street community that we had so enjoyed was replaced by corporate-created pseudo-artistic institutions predicated on the premise that art — if it’s sexy enough — will sell condos.
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.302 | 0.089 |
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".