Bibliographic record
Abstract
A Belated Thank YouSyd Harrex founded the Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English (CRNLE) in 1977, twelve years before three other Australian academics co-authored The Empire Writes Back, and at least a decade before non-Western scholars like Gayatri Spivak endowed the reading practice of "postcolonial studies" with the frisson of hot theory.Syd's mission in 1977 was to place non-UK and non-USA writing in English into the critical purview of university curricular; to make visible what has later been called Anglophone literature, or World Literature in English, or postcolonial writing or global English literature -works coming out of India, Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia and much of Southeast Asia.As one of his titles noted, "Some take wing sooner than others" (CRNLE 2001); and Syd was concretely what too stereotypically has been labelled a "pioneer," who braves the perils of institutional disdain and academic marginalisation to achieve a goal dimly glimpsed by most, a goal later to be taken over by others to higher success.We all stand on the shoulders of giants, except of course we also all too often forget to thank them for bearing the load.So this little essay is my way of saying thank you, knowing that somewhere the Spirit Reader will access it.I first met Syd at a conference in Singapore; in fact, I suspect that conferences were where he met almost everyone whom he later published in the CRNLE Reviews Journal where writers and scholars even more marginalised that he found a home.I recall a tall, broad-shouldered, deep-chested red-faced shaggy-haired male with a broad Australian drawl, continuously dipping his head down to listen to me, all the while repeating, "Yeahhhh, yeahhh."He was sweaty in humid Singapore, loved a cold beer,
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".