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Record W4389933168 · doi:10.1515/9780887555596-002

Igloolik Island, a Mythical Place

2018· book-chapter· en· W4389933168 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Bernard Saladin d’Anglure

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Manitoba Press eBooks · 2018
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeographyHistoryArt

Abstract

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Between the Melville Peninsula and Baffin Island at the northern end of Hudson Bay and north of the Arctic Circle (69 o 23´ N), lies a small island.It has fascinated many in the Western world since 1824, when a London publisher made available the narratives by Captain Parry (1824) and his second-in-command, Captain Lyon (1824), describing the two long years they spent looking for the mythical Northwest Passage to the Indies.The island is named Igloolik, literally, "the place where there are igloos."Off its shores the two ships of the expedition, HMS Fury and HMS Hecla, cast anchor for the winter.Their names were given to the newly discovered strait northwest of the island. 1 Both ships spent the winter of 1822-23 trapped in pack ice.At nearby Iglulik camp, 2 officers and sailors alike got to know the local Inuit, then called Eskimos (Figures 4 and 5).Lyon even managed to learn enough of their language to talk with them, notably with their shamans.Thanks to this uncommon experience, Inuit customs were written up in two accounts that showed much empathy for this people, something very new at the time.Parry's and Lyon's narratives were a great success and were republished many times.It was the first time that this endearing people Igloolik Island, a My thical PlaceInside of a multi-family igloo in the Igloolik region during the winter of 1821-22.On the left, a mother and her baby near an oil lamp; above, a stone pot and a leather bucket.Engraving after a drawing by Captain Lyons, 1824x v

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.136
Threshold uncertainty score0.270

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0070.005
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.229
Teacher spread0.189 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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