Book Review: Billy, A. 2020. NORTH SHORE RESCUE: If You Get Lost Today, Will Anyone Know?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This book will be of interest to all those engaged or interested in volunteer search and rescue. Although the book focusses on one team – North Shore Rescue (NSR) in British Columbia – the issues, stories, frustrations, and humour described herein will be recognized by those in other areas. Allen Billy takes the reader on a historic journey of NSR from its early days as a Civil Defense organization with barely adequate vehicles, equipment not suitable for mountain rescue and rudimentary communications, up to present time as a technical innovator and leader in Canadian search and rescue. As a volunteer team, NSR responds to requests for assistance from fire, police, ambulance service and municipal and provincial governments. Although NSR is an autonomous registered society, it nonetheless finds itself in the often complex and frustrating world of government and agency bureaucracy. Some of the narratives in the book show how accommodating to the myriad of bureaucratic requirements has been an evolution in itself.
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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 | 0.002 | 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".