Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1947, as the Physicians' Window in the north transept of Washington National Cathedral was about to be finished, a staff member of the New England Grenfell Association telephoned a Boston newspaper to announce the unveiling ceremony.'The right lancet commemorates Sir Wilfred Grenfell/ the caller declared with some satisfaction.'Never heard of him,' was the reply.'Louis Pasteur is in the left lancet/ she persisted.'Never heard of him either/ was the reply.'Well Jesus Christ is in the middle/ the exasperated caller shot back.'Have you ever heard of him?'Each retelling of this exchange is usually aimed at calling into question the general knowledge of Boston reporters.But more important, it has also served as a reminder of the impermanence of reputation.Less than seven years before, Wilfred Grenfell's death has occasioned the most laudatory tributes from around the world; yet in this short space of time, his name had grown cold in the very city where he had lived and worked.His name is still remembered in Boston, of course, and it is especially well commemorated in Newfoundland, where a coastguard vessel and a university college bear his name.Beside the legislature in St John's, a statue of him in winter dress overlooks the city where he first landed, and in front of the hospital in St Anthony a similar statue faces out to sea.But if you seek his true memorial, you must climb the hill behind the hospital and take a path into the woods to your left.There you will eventually confront a rock face marked with six brass tablets, one of them disclosing the location of his ashes.On that hill the simple tablet records his existence without any conventional Christian symbol or any of the maudlin and often sentimental language of the graveyard -only with a name, a date, and a short inscription, 'Life is a Field of Honour.'The inscription catches one of the nuances of nineteenth-century xv
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.437 | 0.249 |
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".