Bibliographic record
Abstract
Fourteen years in Scotland, eleven Depression years on his immigrant family's Saskatchewan farm, six war years, fifteen years establishing his own farm family during the era of mechanization and electrification between 1945 and 1960, twenty years at the helm of a large grain company and at the centre of agricultural policy-making, nearly twenty more in an active semiretirement and still going strong as this is written: Mac Runciman has enjoyed a full life and met many responsibilities during his four score years and more.This book is testimony to the regard in which he is held by his colleagues.It also testifies to his perseverance and to that of his co-author, Paul Earl.It is, most of all, a valuable document on the history of western Canada.Though a memoir, the following narrative is uncanny in the way that it recapitulates the history of prairie Canada in the twentieth century.Mac Runciman was one of the last to sail the great immigrant wave that peopled -or more properly, re-peopled -the prairies between 1870 and 1930.He started out in the age of horse and wagon and the day-long haul to the country elevator.He could say with feeling, from personal experience, that no one in a wealthy society "should have been subjected to the hardships that people were subjected to in Saskatchewan in the '30s, it's as simple as that."He enlisted in Canada's army early in the Second World War and, as his leadership qualities became evident, rose steadily through the ranks.And then, almost by accident, or so it seemed to Mac, he was picked out from the crowd of ordinary citizens, those who surrounded him at the curling rink and the elevator local, and invited to accept greater responsibility.Within the span of a few years, he rose to the presidency of the United Grain Growers.For the next two decades, he managed this large organization and participated in the debates that accompanied the restructuring of Canada's agricultural economy and prairie Canada's rural society.Protesting all the way that he was just a farmer doing what was best for farming, Mac contributed a great deal during this extraordinary historical moment.He emerged from the crucible with reputation enhanced and his
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.769 | 0.720 |
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".