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Record W4415586843 · doi:10.21083/crrf.v29i1.8521

Keynote Presentation - Brian Fry

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Brian Fry

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicOutsourcing and Supply Chain Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSilicon valleyChosePresentation (obstetrics)Crash

Abstract

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Brian was born and raised in the Kootenays and in his 54 years has truly leveraged all the advantages rural life can deliver. In his early days, he was part of the infamous Red Mountain Racers. Through great coaching, he became a National Ski Team member at 19 years of age during the Crazy Canuck era, but this wouldn’t last long. A bad crash abruptly ended his promising career and left Brian looking for a new exciting path forward. He chose to become a technology entrepreneur in 1985 and since this time has been involved in over 10 technology Start-Ups and was a founding member of the British Columbia Technology Industry Association. While he spent some of his early careers in Vancouver and Silicon Valley getting his tech start, he was determined to prove he could build great companies from the rural Kootenays and in 1997 made his move. He has now been doing this for 20 years.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.728
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.221
Teacher spread0.213 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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