Bibliographic record
Abstract
was going on upon what are generally known as Minor Public Worksi.e. buildings and improvements of various kinds in different parts of the country; and they will also remember that this expenditure was largely in excess of the amount which, in our judgment, ought to be properly set apart for this service, at least under the present circumstances of the country, and that of the total sum so charged, ($1,980,000, in round numbers,) $980,000 maybe fairly treated as exceptional and extraordinary expenditure, incurred for extraordinai y purposes, the accounts for which are closed and which need not recur again.There remains only one item more to which I shall call attention, and that is the charge of $250,000, or there- abouts, made for the change of guage, and also for the substitution of steel rails for iron on those portions of the Intercolonial , Eailway which belonged to the old Nova Scotia and New Brunswick railroad systems.These I also hold to be exceptional charges, and charges which in a very short time will disappear altogether from our books.Therefore, the House, if it will add these sums together, will see that I am justified in saying that $1,574,000 of the total deficit is really and fairly due to exceptional causes, 'and that this deficit may therefore, to a very considerable extent, be looked upon, as I have said, as one of an abnormal character.But, sir, this is not all.I have a further proof, and I am happy to say a much more satisfactory proof of the general correctness of that view.I find on examining the records of my Department that the total expenditure to the first day of January, 1877, amounted to about $10,100,000, whereas the total expenditure for the same services during the like period of the year ending the 1st January, 1876, was no less than $10,900 000.In other words, the reductions which the Government have effected have amounted to no less than $800,000 in that period alone, a process which if it can be continued during the next half year, would of itself almost entirely remove the deficit.I ought perhaps, to add that the current receipts up to that date from all sources, have almost exactly equalled the current receipts to the same period for the year 1876, and that I feel justified in now stating to the House and to the country that had we been favoured with even a barely average harvest-had there not been an unusual and extraordinary defi- ciency in the harvest throughout many portions of the country-the calcu- lations on which the Government proceeded last year would have been very completely verified ; and that not only would the deficit have been greatly reduced, but I have no manner of doubt that I would have been able to state to the House that it would have been absolutely extinguished by the end of the current financial year without further exertion on our part.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.404 | 0.330 |
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".