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Record W4385598425 · doi:10.59962/9780774863995-001

Foreword

2020· book-chapter· en· W4385598425 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of British Columbia Press eBooks · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTwentieth Century Scientific Developments
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhilosophy

Abstract

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Canada's nuclear history begins with geology, but it does not begin with uranium.Canada was a storehouse of minerals, mostly embedded in the Canadian Shield, with mining companies to match.In the early twentieth century, these companies found a home in Toronto -a large home, centred on the Toronto Stock Exchange, where mining stocks were born, flourished, and, not infrequently, died.Mining was a speculative business, which is to say, risky.Prospectors, promoters, and speculators were thick on the ground, and their projects far outnumbered viable mining firms.But there were enough of these, and by the 1920s Canada had developed a human and technological infrastructure of miners, mining engineers, and even a very few geologists, who could point the way to ores and, it was hoped, wealth.The wealth was displayed in large houses in the new suburbs of Canada's biggest cities, Toronto and Montreal.Eldorado Gold Mines Limited was a typical speculation of the 1920s.A prospector-speculator named Gilbert LaBine claimed that gold was to be found at a certain location in Manitoba, and raised money accordingly, in both Canada and the United States.His mine was not viable, and Eldorado Gold Mines might have joined the long parade of failed mines in Canada.But LaBine knew how to read geological reports, and he had read of a new element, derived from uranium in pitchblende -radium.Radium was the wonder drug of the 1920s -one of the few that could be used to treat cancer, although it was recognized that it could cause cancer as well.It was hard to produce, but at one point in the 1920s it sold for $120,000 a gram and

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.225
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.159
Teacher spread0.132 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it