Skiing History of Big Rock Ski Mountain
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Abstract
Big Rock Ski Area is located on Mars Hill Mountain near the Canadian border with New Brunswick.While the mountain is only 1748 feet in elevation it is the highest peak in northeast Maine and home not only to the ski area but the International Appalachian Trail and a large 28 turbine wind mill facility.Mars Hill Mountain rises above the gently rolling farmland of Aroostook County.The mountain is a cap of conglomerate rock sitting on limestone.According to town history the mountains name come from an early settler to the area.Canadian Hezekiah Mars travelled up the St. John River and established a camp at the bottom of the mountain.He and his son lived in this area for three years; after they returned to England, the area became known as Mars Hill.In family histories of the mountain people have talked about the mountain as a ski hill as early as 1900 when adventurers would climb to the top and ski down but it really did not become a part of modern skiing until 1950.By virtue of its location so close to the northeastern border and the height of the mountain it is for nearly half of the year the first place the sun touches the United States.The reason is because the suns slides northward along the horizon during the warmer months, when the North Pole gets sunlight 24 hours a day, the mountain has the advantage over its coastal competitors.So, from March 25 to September 13, while these dates vary a bit it is generally within a few days.There are a few exceptions, even during the comparatively long Mars Hill periods of the year as occasionally the high hills of Carleton County, New Brunswick, block the Mars Hill sunrise for a few minutes, giving a first morning sunrise to the top of Mount Katahdin.
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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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| 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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".