Canadians taking out loans to combat cost of living, Justin Trudeau meets with German Chancellor, misinformation & regulation on podcasts and tech Tuesday with "Gadget Guy"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Welcome to the MWSA Podcast for Tuesday, August 23rd. We begin with a look at the rising cost of living in Canada. We hear details on a new survey from \\"finder.com\\" that focuses on how we're managing the soaring costs which for many includes taking on more personal debt to pay monthly household bills. Next, it's our weekly conversation with Mercedes Stephenson, Global News Ottawa Bureau Chief, and Host of 'The West Block'. Mercedes brings us details on this week's meeting between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Podcasts are highly popular right now....but they can also be a major source of 'misinformation'. We discuss how the online-medium is regulated and what you can do to safeguard yourself from accidently sharing false narratives. And finally, it's another edition of 'Tech Tuesday'. This time out, the 'Gadget Guy' Mike Yawney brings us the latest and greatest 'tech' to help students find success, ahead of the new school year.
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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) | 0.078 | 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".