Bibliographic record
Abstract
As if from a dream from the Thousand and One Nights , I shall remember entering Pasha Abdullah's house on this spring morning. An old quarter of the rich and the lords with a grim appearance. Dark walls full of mystery and menace. A fortress door, then small thick circuitous winding corridors, as if to be less penetrable. But suddenly, delightful gardens between fine colonnades of white marble, an Eden with flowering trees in the midst of a wonderful old oriental setting. The pasha's janissary walks in front of me through the silent house. From time to time, as etiquette demands, he utters a loud cry of alarm in front of me in order to keep the women of the harem hidden. Repeating this dire warning in the middle of the empty garden leaves me feeling sacrilegious as I enter some forbidden fairy kingdom. Without thinking, I look around for mysterious houris. The pasha welcomes me in a room worthy of Aladdin. Following the Damascene style, it is composed of two distinct parts on different levels: the first is the entrance including only a fountain in a huge wonderful marble basin; and the second, further back, two or three steps higher, furnished with couches and cushions which in this elevated position look like thrones. The flooring is of marble mosaics. On the walls, finer mosaics, mixed with mother of pearl, alternate with panels of the tilework which has not been produced since Tamerlane made his destructive way through. Each panel is framed by arabesques of rare design and depicts a spray of fanciful flowers breaking free from some strange vase with a long slender neck. The ceilings are very high; they are coloured and gilded, with wheel-windows and domes and are of an unimaginable geometrical intricacy, an extravagant kaleidoscopic fantasy. They are moreover delightfully faded and kept in the shadows high above everything by means of cleverly placed lighting rising from below. Wall niches contain hookahs sparkling with precious stones and silver ewers, covered in large turquoises like drops of blue milk. On the cushions and couches, there are matchless antique velvets and the kinds of embroidery which are scarcely to be found anymore.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.630 | 0.358 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".