Crossing Cochetopa: Time Travel, Exploration and Discovery Across the Continental Divide
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract. The Pacific Railroad Surveys, the largest peacetime expeditionary force before the U.S. Civil War, fanned out across the trans-Mississippi West between 1853 and 1856 to determine the “most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi to the Pacific.” I retraced Capt. John W. Gunnison’s exploration of “the natural Central route” along the 38th parallel, crossing the Continental Divide through Cochetopa Pass in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. This paper describes my cartographic examination of Gunnison’s track and explores how modern GIS and visualization tools can bring 165-year-old maps, journals and images alive as an immersive and engaging experience.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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 it