Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dick (we never called him Richard) Parks, the last surviving charter member of the GOS, passed away in Atlanta on 14 December 2013, the day before his 93rd birthday.For nearly 75 years his name was synonymous with life-like bird illustrations, putting him on par with other renowned craftsmen in this small club, including Fuertes and Sutton.Like checklists, field guides, and binoculars, Dick was a fixture within the GOS almost from the beginning.He attended a meeting of the Atlanta Bird Club (ABC) -the precursor to the Atlanta Audubon Society -on a December night in 1936 when the guest speaker was a young Roger Tory Peterson.The next day, 16 December, ABC founded the GOS at a meeting attended by 22 bird enthusiasts at a restaurant.The germination of the seed that became the GOS started in the early 1930s, when ABC members who were also members of the American Ornithologists' Union began to clamor for the establishment of a statewide bird club steeped in science.Dick was not able to attend the GOS' founding meeting.Although he was a charter member, he did not attend his first society meeting until the spring of 1946, when the members gathered in Augusta.It was at that meeting that Dick first displayed his art, much of which had been painted during his service in the navy from 1943-1945.Thereafter, he hardly missed a meeting until his memory began to fail him.The last meeting he attended was the society's 75th anniversary celebration on Tybee Island in January 2011.Dick found his ruling passion as a teenager, and he never let it go.Maybe it would be more accurate to say that it never let Dick go.His love of art and drawing was apparent early in his childhood.His passion for birds bloomed in his teens, during the years before field guides, quality optics, bird clubs, and great birders were prevalent.He once said that his interest in birds started with 1
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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 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.073 | 0.050 |
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".