'Growing Pains' star and TV host Alan Thicke dies at 69
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Abstract
Alan Thicke's 1980s TV dad credentials were neatly in order on "Growing Pains." His Dr. Jason Seaver was an open-hearted parent and an enlightened husband, working from home to help tend the kids while his wife revived her career. One of TV's favorite dads has died...Alan Thicke played Doctor Jason Seaver for seven seasons on Growing Pains...a Father Knows Best-like guy who was supportive...and funny...The show launched the career of Kirk Cameron who played oldest son Mike...said in a 1999 interview he still felt like a kid around his TV dad...Cameron said "I'm shocked and truly heartbroken today at the news of his death. Alan was a generous, kind and loving man. I am so blessed to have grown up with him."Thicke's TV credentials are long...a composer of theme songs from "The Wheel of Fortune" and "Diff'rent Strokes." A writer for Barry Manilow's talk show.He hosted his own talk show in 1983, taking on Johnny Carson with "Thicke of the Night"...and has a long list of acting credits.The Los Angeles Times spoke with his son, singer Robin Thicke, who called his father the greatest man I ever met and always a gentleman.Thicke was born in in Ontario, Canada and was a huge hockey fan...Robin Thicke confirmed his father was playing hockey with his other son Carter when he suffered a heart attack.His passing led to a statement from the Edmonton Oilers..."RIP to one of the great ones, Alan Thicke," was posted on the hockey team's website, with a photo of a young Thicke and Wayne Gretzky on the ice.He was 69.
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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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.067 | 0.002 |
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; both teacher heads 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".