Bacon, John U. The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald disaster, John Bacon has penned a chronicle focused on the "mighty Fitz" as well as on the hazardous Great Lakes shipping industry and the vessel's crew.The 729foot, double-hulled, welded-steel SS Edmund Fitzgerald was the "queen" of Milwaukee's Columbia Transport Division of the Northwest Mutual Insurance Company.The book also conjures a mental image of the calamity by way of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot's melancholy song about the ship's demise.The book is somewhat of a literary tryptic.The first part deals with shipping on the Great Lakes, the peculiarities of dealing with vast stretches of freshwater, the unusual weather patterns in this area of North America, the transport of iron ore, and the unusual designs of the vessels needed to deliver taconite pellets to the iron and steel industries farther southeast.A second component focuses on the crews of these Great Lakes vessels, particularly those who shipped upon the Edmund Fitzgerald, their individual positions onboard, backgrounds and training, and their human strengths and vulnerabilities.Finally, Bacon takes the reader through the vessel's last voyage, how its race ended in a gargantuan storm, her loss, and the aftermath's impact on the families and friends.Here is where the author attempts to reconstruct the craft's demise from scraps of information.In heavy weather waves in the Great Lakes could reach 20 feet high or more, capable of hogging a vessel upon a wave's crest and then sagging the
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.005 |
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".