James Blair Historical Review Volume 10, issue 2
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the immortal words of the historian Carl Becker, "the history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world.The history that does work in the world, the history that influences the course of history, is living history… that enlarges and enriches the collective specious present."What you have before you, the tenth volume and first issue of the James Blair Historical Review, is a labor of love, a collection of histories that seeks to do work in the world.In this time of chaos and calamity, we at the James Blair Historical Review are truly blessed to have gotten to publish such brilliant work.Nell Williamson Shafer's "Borderwaters at the Edge of Empire" spins us a fascinating tale about the peripheries of empire and actual pirates of the Caribbean.Caroline Azdell's "The Path of Progress," on racism and student culture at our very own College of William & Mary, reminds us to stay vigilant in recognizing the racial prejudice within our academic communities.Andrew Bilodeau's "Creating a Crime" is a thoroughly enlightening account on the wartime internment and scapegoating of Canadian-Italians during the Second World War.Closing the issue is Jordan Sisco's "Egypt in Africa," an erudite work that considers the historical relationship between the Land of the Nile and its African continent.These essays are engrossing, meaningful, and accessible histories, and I am delighted to share them with you here.Many thanks are in order for this year's Review, coincidentally celebrating its 10th Anniversary.Firstly, congratulations are in order for our contributors;
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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 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.072 | 0.041 |
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".