Bibliographic record
Abstract
And then the Water is a work of fiction in the form of a novel. The work presents a near future set on Vancouver Island in a Canada that is in the final stages of transitioning to a post-petroleum economy. The move away from hydrocarbons as fuel is evident as all vehicles are electric and non-durable plastics are absent. Along with the technologies displacing petroleum, humans have also made advancements in the biomedical field that allow for bioartificial replacement of the body through a series of surgeries colloquially known as “procedures.” These procedures create a body with an interminable lifespan, but are available only to the wealthy few. And then the Water centres on the experiences of a widower, Vic, who wins the lottery and must decide whether or not to pursue his own procedures. My novel seeks to explore grief as a central motivating factor in how Vic comes to his final decision. The story is told using two distinct timelines. The first is the present day of the novel, in which Vic works as a truck driver that hauls amputate from the procedures to a bio-waste incineration facility. The second focuses on Vic’s relationship with his late wife, Kate, from inception through challenges with infertility and until her death in an earthquake-caused tsunami in Tofino. Having two timelines allows for an exploration of multiple facets of grief, as well as multiple modes of reproduction (biological and bioartificial).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".