Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1996 I published White Tie and Decorations: Sir John and Lady Hope Simpson in Newfoundland, 1934Newfoundland, -1936, which draws on a collection of family papers deposited at Balliol College, University of Oxford.When I read the Hope Simpson personal letters from Newfoundland, I quickly saw in them the makings of a diary of sorts, something I eventually realized in my book.When I read Alan Caswell Collier's 1934-35 relief camp letters to Ruth Isabell Brown, his future spouse -the correspondence is now part of the Alan Caswell Collier Fonds at the Queen's University Archives -I was similarly inspired, and this volume is the result.Though written in the same years, the letters at Balliol and Queen's were the product of very different circumstances.At the time they wrote the letters I excerpted, the Hope Simpsons were resident in the faux grandeur of the end-of-empire Newfoundland Hotel, Cavendish Square, St. John's, and were nearing retirement.Sir John, who had an international career behind him, was a member of the British-appointed Commission of Government then administering Newfoundland, and he and his wife, Mary Jane (Quita) wrote from the perspective of the governing class.By contrast, Alan Collier was on relief when he wrote most of the letters excerpted in this book, trying desperately to get started in a career and acquire the means to get married.He wrote, moreover, from the rough and ready setting of three British Columbia relief camps, part of a
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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 | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.563 | 0.418 |
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".