Bibliographic record
Abstract
This issue of the International Journal of Cuban Studies (IJCS) was prepared in the early Spring of 2024.Readers would be reminded that this was the time when the US presidential election cycle was still in the primary process, the genocidal bombardment and invasion of Gaza was still underway, and the second anniversary of the Russian military action in Ukraine was being marked.Unsurprisingly, in Cuba, all of these events were topics of discussion because they all, in one way or another, had portentous implications for the future of the revolution.Judging how the shifting sands of the geopolitical landscape might affect the island is one of the key purposes of this journal and to that end, while acknowledging these external forces are not overtly discussed in this edition, we offer these articles to provide context and background to the evolving political and economic developments in Cuba at this worrying juncture for the world.What they suggest is that despite the cleavages that are widening between Cuba's allies (Russia, Iran, and China) and its neighbours (the US and Canada) there are very significant reasons to suppose that world trends will not affect the bilateral relationships that much.Marcel Kunzmann is a young researcher who recently joined the editorial board of the IJCS, and he has contributed a highly detailed and cogently argued Special Report on the economic situation he found in the island on an extended visit there in January and February.He writes that Cuba has now passed the phase of timid "reform socialism" and is facing the challenge of developing a new form of relationship between plan and market.He suggests the process must become one of reform "with Cuban characteristics" that definitively puts the island on the stated the long-term goal of a "prosperous and sustainable socialism".This will require rethinking decades-old structural economic challenges.The outcome of this huge endeavour may not be certain, he concludes, but if Cuba does achieve success, it would not be the first time that Caribbean socialism has surprised the world.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.560 | 0.325 |
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".