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Record W4409985401 · doi:10.32396/usurj.v10i1.833

The Caveless Creature

2025· article· en· W4409985401 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Melissa L'Hirondelle

Bibliographic record

VenueUSURJ University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterature, Magical Realism, García Márquez
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer science

Abstract

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While many know the Wendigo as a fearsome monster from horror media, the Wendigo is an extremely powerful symbol and creature within Indigenous cultures. I rarely see the Wendigo depicted by an Indigenous artist, and wished to reclaim its fearsome image as a protector of our culture within a modern context. The Wendigo hunts in the woods, but if the forests burn, where does the Wendigo lurk? The Wendigo preys on unsuspecting white settlers. But if the white settlers destroy its home, have colonized the lands it belongs to, are they truly unsuspecting? I see the Wendigo as a creature of decolonization and a symbol that blends our traditions, our present and our future as Indigenous peoples.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.045

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0110.025
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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