Bibliographic record
Abstract
What Are Friends?We keep talking about friendship, but have been dancing around the question, avoiding taking it head-on.What is a friend?One obvious answer is that friends are not enemies, but that doesn't give us much room to move and boxes us in theoretically.Maybe a better starting point is to ask after the differences between friends and family, and whether that distinction gives us any political daylight.Family is the past we were handed.Friends are freely chosen.Family is inescapable, friends are fluid.Families yoke us to all their failings and forgettable traits -all the more embarrassing because they are so obviously ours too.You can't do anything about your family, they stain every part of your essence, and everyone can see it plastered all over the way you talk, what you eat and the shape of your nose.It is as common to be chagrined about our families as it is easy to brag about our friends.So why do people say their best friends are like family?Or that they are our brothers and sisters?Brothers from another mother.Sisters in arms.We are always comparing friends to family with metaphor and allusion, hoping that our friends are as close to us as family, just shed of all its patriarchal and historical baggage.Family is seemingly the constant aspirational unit.Someone you can always call on.Someone you have to answer to, and who has to answer to you.People who will be there for you through decades.They were there when you were born and will be by your side when you die.Friends come and go, family is forever.You never have to prove yourself to your family, you are part of one another whether you like it or not.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.052 | 0.022 |
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".