Horsfield, Richard E.: my Air Force recollections (May 31, and June 24, 1978)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT: Wing Commander Richard E. Horsfield Royal Canadian Air Force (Reel 1) Interview of May 24, 1978 appears never to have been in the possession of the University of Victoria Archives. Horsfield_R_0175_01.mp3 (Reel 2, Side 1) Discusses a Maj. Ellis, a prisoner of the Turks and a clever escape of the Great War, eventually reaching Cyprus and England. In the 1930's gave lectures on flying and also intelligence work. Took a job as information officer with the Dept. of National Defence, but was required to join the R.C.A.F. beforehand. Engaged in recruiting in Ontario, then on Vancouver Island. Squadron leader at the end of 1941. Promoted to wing commander. Instituted an advertising program in conjunction with private corporations that saved the government millions. Began to work on radio propaganda. (45:00) Horsfield_R_0175_02.mp3 Wrote thirteen radio shows, "L for Lancie". Anecdotes of Ottawa; the missing code machine, etc. Worked for and admired "Chubby" Powers, the Minister for Air. Criticizes Quebec regarding conscription and the war effort. Assistant director of manning, becoming director in early 1944 as an acting group captain. Later became chairman of the Demobilization Board. Some discussion regarding high ranking members of the R.C.A.F. (30:00) Demobilization point system. Concerned with ex-servicemen at U.B.C. Explains some of the benefits made available. Postwar he was employed by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. Comments on the later unification of the services. Tradition adversely affected. Anecdotes of prewar army life and later of the air force. (58:00) Horsfield_R_0175_03.mp3 (Reel 2, Side 2) Opinions on senior air officers. Recruiting services in Vancouver. "Canadianization" of the R.C.A.F. serving in the R.A.F. Tests for the selection of air crew. Flying experiences on the west coast and elsewhere. (25:00) Horsfield_R_0175_04.mp3 (Reel 3, Side 1) In 1940 the R.A.F. advised that they were short of radio-radar technicians. Unsuccessful attempt to recruit through Queen's University, but were more successful recruiting technicians from the commercial sector. Stories of Billy Bishop, Douglas Bader, Campbell, Beurling. Horsfield_R_0175_05.mp3 Recruiting pilots. Alaska Highway. General comments; some stories perhaps apocryphal. Air Force headquarters. (51:00)
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.122 | 0.057 |
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".