This Must Be a Punchline: Directing a Theatre Production for 230 Young People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Learning Disabilities, Non-verbal Learning Disorders and Asperger Syndrome
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Abstract
For endless hours, I endure the cacophony of piercing young voices, shuffling metal chairs and shrieking speaker feedback. I accept that one of the microphones mysteriously shattered, that an important light shines in the wrong direction and that the knob fell off the main entrance door. I tolerate the countless antics: Louis now wants to be a firefighter and not a police officer, Becky is being picked up hours too early by her parents and six-year-old Matthew declares that he will not perform if Christopher looks at him. My composure erodes when I discover Roxanne, one of the principal characters, loudly weeping in the corner, proclaiming that she never would have agreed to all this if it meant not getting to see her “boyfriend” for the session’s closing days. Appreciative of the fact that one instant of rest is one instant too long for anything not inscribed in the rigid schedule for the day, I walk outside into the midday sun. I lean over a rustic bridge’s wooden railing, letting a cool breeze from the lake sooth my exhausted body. Thin birch trees sway restlessly back and forth. The outdoor scenery — so stereotypical of northern Ontario in the warm months — provides a moment of calm solace. My friends are lounging on patios, playing softball or tramping Europe. I, on the other hand, have spent virtually every minute in the past month at a summer camp, frantically directing a theatre production, which is less than two days from being presented to a packed audience. The experience begins to sound like the set-up for a joke when I contemplate the fact that the cast includes the entire camp community of 230 young people. In case the situation is not overwhelmingly comic enough, the punchline comes when I appreciate that this is not any summer camp, but Camp Kodiak, a place that features a program for young people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Learning Disabilities, Non-verbal Learning Disorders and Asperger Syndrome.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.017 |
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".