Bibliographic record
Abstract
In producing a work such as this over the course of many years, I have incurred a variety of debts.The research on which this work is based was conducted with the aid of scholarships and funding from the Ontario Graduate Scholarship Program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Department of National Defence, Security and Defence Forum.I was fortunate to become part of the Tri-University Program in History at Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Guelph.I benefited from the stimulating intellectual environment provided by many excellent faculty members and students in the three departments.My work in race, slavery, and imperialism with Jim Walker at Waterloo were especially important for opening my eyes to new approaches and sparking new questions in my own work.Above all I was blessed with a great friend and mentor in the person of Terry Copp.His energy and boundless intellectual curiosity pushed me onward, but his sharp questions never let me lose my focus and purpose.In many ways, this project was as much an intellectual journey for him as it was for me, and I remain thankful that he joined me for the trip.Subsequently, I have moved on to assignments at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, run by the industrious David Bercuson, and in the Department of History at the University of Victoria.Both these institutions and the conversations with colleagues helped me to further develop my ideas for this study.Special thanks are due to Whitney Lackenbauer and Donald Smith in Calgary and to John Lutz, Brian Dippie, Susan Ingram, and Hamar Foster in Victoria, all of whom saw a form of the manuscript, in whole or in part, and offered comments and criticisms that helped strengthen the final product.Finally, I am greatly indebted to the anonymous reviewers whose conscientious and thorough review of the manuscript forced me to face its inadequacies, to buttress its adequacies, and to derive encouragement from its strengths.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.031 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.183 | 0.177 |
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".