Report of the Select committee to whom was referred the subject of the formation of an ice bridge over the St. Lawrence at Quebec.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
2nd. "That from long residence in this country, and from general experience " and observation, combined with the evidence taken of persons resident on both " sides of the River, of great practical experience on the subject, it is the opinion of "the Council that the object is perfectly practicable, and at an inconsiderable ex- " penditure, in comparison with the vast advantages that would be derived there- « from."3rd."That for the furtherance of the object, a petition, based upon the testimony " aforesaid, be framed and transmitted to His Excellency, the Governor General, to " be submitted to the Provincial Legislature."Owing to changes in the Town Council, as well as in the Government, the matter remained in abeyance until 1845, when, as will be seen in the second paragraph of a letter from Capt., now Admiral, Boxer, to Your Committee, dated on the 25th March last, the question was brought before the Legislature, when the Trinity Board received directions from His Excellency the Governor General, to report their opinion as to its advantages and practicability.The subject hav- ing been referred to Capt.Boxer, Mr. Young, and Capt.Alleyn, those Gentlemen reported on the 4th February, 1845, in which they give, what may be deemed, weighty reasons for objecting to the erection of piers, or the use of artificial means for arresting the Ice at Quebec ; inasmuch as by so doing, the probability is, from the experience of years in which an Ice Bridge has been naturally formed, the which the Wharf and Block would be filled up,-the whole of which more amply appears in the Report of the said Committee to which your Petitioners respectfully refer.Wherefore your Petitioners humbly pray, that your Honorable House will be pleased to take the premises into consideration, and inasmuch as the projected Ice Bridge would be an object of general convenience, and as the cost of the works required for its formation are beyond the means of private individuals, and as these works would moreover greatly benefit the trade and the Revenue of the Province, your Honorable House would be pleased to adopt such measures as in your wisdom you may deem fit for carrying into execution the wishes of your Petitioners.And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.114 | 0.022 |
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".