MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W6926829271 · doi:10.25446/oxford.25938625

Memories of the Bacon Family

2024· other· en· W6926829271 on OpenAlexaboutno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Oxford · 2024
Typeother
Languageen
Field
Topic
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBrotherSummonsMovie theaterSisterWorld War IIToiletObituary

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

My brother, Allan Bacon, is on the board of directors for the Friends of The Canadian War Museum. He writes articles for them, and all the evidence provided relates to his time in Brighton during WWII. Currently 86 years old, he has lived in Canada for over 40 years.My brother lived in a small road in Brighton, No 62 Richmond Building, 2 up 2 down, with a toilet at the end of the garden. On Friday nights, it was bath night, and all six of us shared the same bath water.He attended Sussex St Infants' School in 1941 (at reception age 5). Every day, they had lessons where they had to wear gas masks, which they carried everywhere with them in small cardboard boxes. During air raids, he would go to the shelter under the playground.My father, Edward Charles Bacon, received his call-up papers during the war. He can remember that the street up the hill from where we lived was severely damaged, the brewery at the end of the street was hit, and the local cinema was badly damaged. During the raid, he sat on the sidewalk with a friend who was hurt. The raid was a 'hit and run raid' with no air raid siren.His earliest memory is from February 23rd, 1940, when my mother was making my birthday cake for the following day. The postman arrived to deliver my father's summons for military service. He remembers Mum bursting into tears and running to the place where Dad worked, a wholesale grocery warehouse. He reported for duty with the Royal Engineers on March 5th, 1940.He had 10 days of training with the army before leaving for France. Between May 27th and June 4th, he was evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk. He was posted to the School of Military Engineering in Ripon, Yorkshire, where he taught a variety of skills, including bridging, demolitions, map reading, and later in the war, escape and evasion skills to RCAF bomber crews serving with Bomber Command 6 Group.As a Salvation Army family, we took turns hosting a German prisoner of war named Johann, who came for meals on Sundays with us. He had served with the Wehrmacht in Germany. One of the most treasured memories was having meals with him. My brother has a wooden tank made by Johann.They have left a much longer typed account of this, which they have left for us as an artefact. Copies of photographs have also been given to support this story.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

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 head0.011
GPT teacher head0.192
Teacher spread0.180 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

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".

Quick stats

Citations0
Published2024
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueUniversity of OxfordFrench-language works237,207