Bibliographic record
Abstract
Vimy sits at or near the very centre of whatever national historical psyche Canadians might reasonably be said to possess. Vimy is unique, unalloyed, and unparalleled in our commemoration of the nation’s military past. It may or may not deserve the honour, but it holds the honour just the same. Vimy’s status is as its battle was: epic, indelible, and, in part, inexplicable. Vimy nevertheless should be remembered as a whole, and not disaggregated as moral lesson or site of mourning. Vimy is place, battle, and memory – a fusion of land, people, and time. We forget this, or exaggerate it, to our peril; we misunderstand it, or ignore it, to our shame. Resume : Vimy figure en plein cœur, ou tout pres, de toute representation historique nationale que l’on peut ra isonnablement at t r ibuer aux Canadiens. Vimy est unique, pure et sans egale dans notre souvenance du passe militaire du pays. Qu’elle merite, ou non, cette consecration, elle conserve cet honneur. Le statut de Vimy est identique a ce que la bataille fut : epique, inoubliable et, en partie, inexplicable. Vimy devrait neanmoins etre evoquee comme un tout, et non pas distinguee isolement comme lecon de morale ou site de deuil. Vimy est un lieu, une bataille et un souvenir – une fusion d’espace, de personnes et de temps. Nous l’oublions, ou l’exagerons, a notre detriment; nous la comprenons mal, ou l’ignorons, a notre honte. Ph ot o by M ik e Be ch th ol d © Canadian Military History, Volume 21, Number 3, Summer 2012, pp.49-57. 2 Canadian Military History, Vol. 21 [2015], Iss. 3, Art. 5 http://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh/vol21/iss3/5 50 fatalities and shredded lives? Is Vimy a cheap spur to emotionalism? Is it a cue to pass the hat for history? Is Vimy a bumper sticker rejoinder to presumably dim and ungrateful contemporaries, especially our supposedly unreachable youth, a not-so-distant cousin of the Bastille, the Alamo, or Trafalgar in the clarity of its message and timelessness of its meaning? Is Vimy undignified, or oversold? Or is it shamefully unknown and, in such, unconscionably disrespected? What is it? I propose a simple thing at our birthday reverie: that we remember Vimy whole, and not disaggregated as moral lesson or site of mourning, or not these things alone. Vimy is place, battle, and memory – a fusion of land, people, and time. We forget this, or exaggerate it, to our peril; we misunderstand it, or ignore it, to our shame.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.384 | 0.165 |
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".