Bibliographic record
Abstract
In July 2023 it was announced that Crawford Lake, a limestone sinkhole in Canada, would be the site used to test for evidence of the Anthropocene thesis: the idea that human industry has inadvertently ushered in a new geological epoch. A drill core of sediment from the bottom of this lake is now being analysed. If its stratigraphy shows a significant anthropogenic shift from 1950 then, in August this year, the Anthropocene will become officially acknowledged. This installation considers the geological impact of industry through the lens of the carbon cycle. Limestone is a carbonate sedimentary rock formed when weathered calcite dissolved in sea water is absorbed by algae which then precipitate to the ocean floor. Chalk, for example, is formed by the phytoplankton coccolithophore, whose name tranlates literally as carriers of little stone berries. The work takes as its title the rate of limestone extraction in North East Somerset, placing human measurements of time and volume in contrast to the geological timescales that industrial processes are now considered to have altered. By combining infrared timelapse videos shot in active and disused quarries across the South West with satellite imagery of phytoplankton blooms in the Arctic Ocean, the installation considers the relationship between the local extraction of limestone and its planetary formation.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.334 | 0.351 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".