Bibliographic record
Abstract
MY MOTHER, Madzy Brender à Brandis-van Vollenhoven, was born in Holland in 90, the third of four children in an upper-middle-class family.Her privileged childhood did little to prepare her for the varied and often difficult life she was to live.The protected existence did not, in fact, suit her: she rebelled against its restrictions, discovering in herself a great need to be free, a hankering for adventure, and a drive for self-fulfillment that were to last life long.As a young woman, despite her mother's disapproval, she studied law in Leiden, planning to practise in what was then the Dutch East Indies, but shortly before obtaining her degree she married.With her new husband, Wim Brender à Brandis, she lived for several years near New York City.On the eve of the Second World War, she and Wim returned to Holland.In 942 Wim was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp, and Madzy was left, in a time of great danger and hardship, to care for two small children.The reunited family emigrated in 947 to Canada to homestead on a farm in northern British Columbia.After selling the farm nine years later, both Madzy and Wim returned to university and earned Canadian degrees.Throughout all this, and for the rest of her life, Madzy was writing, in both Dutch and English.She contributed columns to four different newspapers in Holland and Canada.Her book about our life on the farm was published in English as Land for Our Sons; she was asked to translate it into Dutch, and the translated and revised edition, Land voor onze zonen, sold widely in Holland.She also wrote short stories and a quantity of material that was never published or was printed only for the family: diaries, memoirs, historical works, and innumerable letters.When she was no longer able to write by hand or to type, she made tapes.Her last important work was a chronicle, Memories, dictated when the arthritis had damaged her hands so badly that she could hardly hold a pen.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.319 | 0.142 |
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".