Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract It is unfortunate that journals were not kept routinely for all of my [Stanley L. Welsh] expeditions that resulted in collections of plants that formed the bases for publications over the years. Only the record books and the specimens document most of the trips, and they are without detail of the events leading up to them or of those that transpired on them. The journals reproduced here show good intentions, which unfortunately were not fulfilled subsequently. The early field trips from Iowa State, accompanied by Dennis Anderson set the tone for later trips to Alaska, in 1965, 1966, 1968, and to northern British Columbia in 1969. However, no such journals (only collecting books) substantiate trips to northern Yukon to Sam Lake in Old Crow flats in 1970 and Pass Lake, on the divide between the Mackenzie and the Yukon in 1971, or to North 1 West Territories, at Canoe Lake, west of Inuvic, in 1972. The entries are instructive as to the goals of the trips, and give a view of the scenes viewed during them. The sweep of the Great Plains carries through the 1958 and 1959 journals, that of the monumental and magnificent western cordillera and broad valleys and tussock tundra of western Canada and Alaska show through in the accounts. They are, nevertheless, day-by-day travelogues, and are generally boring. Still, they might be useful for some reasons yet to be determined, and most certainly they are written nowhere else! The accounts are based on hand-written journals resulting from trips during the life and times of one S. Welsh. They are reproduced as written, with modification only of spellings and punctuating. Contents North-Central United States Journals –1958 and 1959 1959 Travels! Alaska Expedition Journal 1965 Second Alaska Expedition Journal 1966 Alaskan Expedition Journal 1968
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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 | 0.002 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.010 | 0.017 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.407 | 0.219 |
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".