Bibliographic record
Abstract
Each man's own life is the subject-matter of the art of living.-EPICTETUS1 H EALTH is one of humankind's greatest preoccupations as we enter the twenty-first century, and I have often had occasion to speak of health in the light of Buddhist perspectives on life.In On Being Human, I am pleased to present the views of the eminent medical scientist Rene Simard, rector of the University of Montreal from 1993 to 1998, and the outstanding bioethicist Guy Bourgeault, professor of ethics at the same institution.Rapid scientific and technological breakthroughs have enabled modern civilization to make great strides toward what could be termed "happiness."We have eradicated many of the ills that have long afflicted humankind, including numerous infectious diseases.Highly specialized techniques in other areas, particularly surgery, now enable us to heal pathological conditions once considered incurable.The twenty-first century has been hailed as an age of biotechnology.Treatments for cancer, AIDS, cardiac disorders, and other intractable diseases will advance steadily, buoyed by the fruits of the latest medical technology designed for application to cells and genes and encroaching on the functions of the brain itself.Biotechnology has
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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 | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.421 | 0.218 |
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".