Bibliographic record
Abstract
Richard D. O’Brien, 93, died May 19, 2023, in Framingham, Massachusetts. “Richard was the Schwartz Professor of Biology and Society at Cornell University, he co-authored the book Life on Earth , and founded the journal Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology . His honors included the American Chemical Society’s International Award for Pesticide Chemistry, fellow of the American Association for the Achievement of Science, and Guggenheim Fellowship. During his remarkable life spanning nearly 94 years, Richard’s brilliant mind, kindness, and curiosity were an inspiration to all who had the good fortune of knowing him. Even those who did not were touched by his many significant contributions to education, science, and the arts.”—Susan Whitbourne O’Brien, wife Most recent title: Provost, chancellor, and chair of biochemistry and molecular biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst Education: BS, chemistry, Reading College (UK), 1950; PhD, chemistry, 1954, and BA, general arts, 1956, University of Western Ontario Survivors: Spouse,
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".