Bibliographic record
Abstract
TBD is a multidisciplinary theatre event presented in Vancouver, BC, in 2015 and 2016. The project uses the Tibetan Book of the Dead as a structural anchor and guide to the audience’s sensual and emotional experience, exploring notions of death and dying, living in the present moment, avoiding distraction, and non-attachment. The first iteration involved 50 audience members, the following year that number was expanded to 100. TBD spans twenty-one days, with each audience member receiving a different kind of engagement each day, primarily in the form of audio or video podcasts or text messages delivered to their smartphones. Their phones also carried a family-location app that allowed Radix performers to locate them in public. Other events included four site-specific performances on specific days, home visits, items dropped at their doorstep, or posters placed in their neighbourhood. After an introductory day at the local cemetery’s communal hall, the audience’s experience begins with a podcast asking them to imagine that they have died and that Radix performers will be acting like their guides through the afterlife to their possible rebirth. In this sense the title offers a double meaning, the acronym suggesting both “To Be Determined” and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Many audience members expressed profound experiences over the course of the event, with equal enthusiasm shared by the performers who each had compelling stories about their interactions. The Radix Collective refers to TBD as “internal theatre” because participants framed their experiences through the unique lens of their own personal lives, without divulging what they were going through. The impact of the production varied for each audience member, depending on their point of view and willingness to engage with the work.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.613 | 0.344 |
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".