Bibliographic record
Abstract
John Bradstreet's lengthy and active career has produced a rich harvest of contemporary opinions and historical evaluations, which have been profuse but not overly profound.His activities involved some of the major events and individuals of eighteenth-century Colonial North America.His unbridled ambition, a willingness openly to plead his own case, and penchant for elaborate justification of all his actions were bound to antagonize people.He was a man who constantly sought the rewarding applause of his contemporaries but his aggressive approach invited criticism.He received much of both.Yet, despite the wealth of documentation available, his career has never been carefully examined in a full-length study.Rather, historians have awarded Bradstreet elaborate biographical footnotes, some consideration in biographies dealing with his contemporaries, and reports on his better-known military exploits; but they have left a great deal undone and provided an inadequately sketched figure.Admittedly the bare outlines of Bradstreet's career are fairly well known.He first emerged during the Louisbourg expedition of 1745 when his significant services to Governor William Shirley of Massachusetts and to the expedition's commander, William Pepperrell, earned him an appointment as lieutenant-governor of St. John's, Newfoundland.This colonial office when combined with his rank in the English army, which he had formally entered as an ensign in 1735, provided the basic foundation to which he hoped to add further colonial and military offices and honours.Despite his Louisbourg contribution, however, Bradstreet faded from view, only to re-
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.649 | 0.475 |
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".