A World Shaped by Computer Technologies: For a Hermeneutic Analysis of Computer Protocols
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Abstract
How is the world changing as a result of our interactions with the material core of digital devices? What theoretical tools does our humanistic culture offer us to understand the impact of technologies on our world? Referring to the methodological fields of new materialism and critical code studies, the paper presents the conditions for developing a hermeneutic analysis of computer protocols. This reflection will then be applied to the study of TCP/IP, the protocol suite implemented by the internet and one of the theoretical and functional systems that guarantees the extensive spread of digital technology in today's world. Its computational, material, and cultural components highlight the substantial interdependence between human thinking and digital systems. Comment le monde change-t-il en raison de nos interactions avec le noyau matériel des appareils numériques ? Quels outils théoriques notre culture humaniste nous offre-t-elle pour comprendre l'impact des technologies sur notre monde ? En se référant aux champs méthodologiques du nouveau matérialisme et des études critiques du code, cet article présente les conditions nécessaires à l’élaboration d’une analyse herméneutique des protocoles informatiques. Cette réflexion sera ensuite appliquée à l'étude du TCP/IP, la suite de protocoles mise en œuvre par l'internet et l'un des systèmes théoriques et fonctionnels qui garantit la large diffusion de la technologie numérique dans le monde actuel. Ses composantes computationnelles, matérielles et culturelles mettent en évidence l'interdépendance substantielle entre la pensée humaine et les systèmes numériques.
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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 | 0.030 | 0.057 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.077 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.036 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".