Valmy Thomas...First Virgin Islander to Play Major League Baseball...Friend and hero of Wallace Williams...Valmy is a Virgin Islands hero. He served in the Virgin Islands Government as commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Cultural Affairs, hosted a TV sports show and was active in local baseball and horse racing...Wallace Williams considered him a sports hero and friend and appeared on his TV show on several occasions to discuss track and field and road running. Valmy, was with Joe Christopher the center of debate as to who was the first Virgin Islander to play in the Major League as Joe was born in Frederiksted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands and Valmy was actually born in Santurce, Puerto Rico (his mother went to PR from home in St. Croix to give birth as medical facilities were limited). Williams considers Christopher a friend also as he associated with him when he headed the labor union for public library employees where Williams was Head Librarian. Williams recalls in the late 70's a discussion in a government sports, parks and recreation meeting at the Florence Williams Public Library hosted by Thomas, first mention of developing jogging and cycling trails in the V.I., specifically and to seek funding from Federal Gov. Block Grants...
Bibliographic record
Abstract
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.159 | 0.059 |
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".