Halifax Explosion 1917 Online Resources. URL: http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/explosion.asp
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Every December for the past eighty-five years, a solemn memorial has been held in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the sixth day of the twelfth month at 9:04:35 a.m.To the present generation of Canadians that date and time may not appear particularly significant or evoke any immediate recollections.However, to an entire city, a province, and many people throughout a country, 6 December 1917 will be forever remembered as the date of the worst explosion in the history of the world before the nuclear attacks on Japan in 1945.In the early morning hours of 6 December 1917 a Norwegian vessel, the S.S. Imo, collided with the French freighter, Mont Blanc, in the narrows of Halifax Harbour.The latter ship was carrying over 2500 tons of explosives and her decks were laden with fuel that ignited in the minutes following the initial impact to cause the "Halifax Explosion."Over 1600 people were immediately killed, 9000 people were injured, approximately 13,000 buildings were destroyed, and 350 acres of residential and business districts of Halifax and Dartmouth were levelled.The damage was estimated to be in excess of $35,000,000 and more Nova Scotians were ultimately killed as a result of the explosion than during the whole of World War I which was still raging at the time.The disaster stretched the city's estimated population of 65,000 people to their utmost limits.Haligonians responded quickly and fought valiantly to try to rescue the injured and maimed, provide shelter for the homeless, and get things up and running again.The Halifax Relief Commission was established almost immediately to oversee all of these activities and ultimately was responsible for the distribution of over $20,000,000 worth of aid that poured in to assist with the rebuilding of the city.Last fall Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM) in conjunction with The Halifax Foundation, launched a new virtual exhibit to
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".