Design and implementation of a model scale lifeboat deployment system
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Abstract
Design of a model scale lifeboat deployment system is presented. The lifeboat deployment system facilitates testing of physical model lifeboats. It is comprised of a controlling application and three core subsystems; a wave timer, two davits and associated controllers, and a boom and associated controller. The controlling application presents an intuitive graphical user interface and provides configuration and operational control of the entire system. The wave timer analyzes data from a wave probe to determine the optimum time a lifeboat should be launched. This process ensures the lifeboat lands on the least dangerous part of the wave phase. The wave timer and automated launch capability enable researchers to study the effects of deploying the lifeboat at differing wave phases. The davits and controller subsystem raises and lowers the lifeboat at user specified controlled rates. The boom and controller subsystem orients and propels the lifeboat away after launch. The angle of the boom, which is dependent on boom load, is continually adjusted by a simple closed loop feedback system. Discussion of the design requirements and implementation of this system are presented.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".