Locusts, Roaches, And Ants: The Music Of The Web Reviewing Community
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the mid-to-late 90s, various independent writers began reviewing music online. These gradually formed a lose community through linking to and commenting on each others pages. Today, many of these websites have either expired or been taken down, with MarkPrindle.com existing as a notable exception, and the Discord And Rhyme podcast existing as a notable offshoot. Many of the music reviewers were amateur musicians themselves, and so the decision was made to make a compilation album. Officially listed as "Vol. 1", there was no "Vol. 2". Tracklist: 1. The Other Leading Brand - "Ritalin Rock (Purity Of Essence)" 2. Steve Knowlton And The Knowl-Tones - "Saskatchewan" 3. Willie Simpson - "Dead In 41" 4. Disclaimer - "Hell" 5. Mike Kozak - "Walk Me Home" 6. Adam Johansson & Joel Larsson - "Gamie Klassiker" 7. Monkey Syndicate - "Heterosapiens" 8. Mark Prindle "Jogging Is the Bestest/A Guy Said My Web Site Is Overrated (Why Does Everybody Hate Me So Much?)/My Songs Would Be Significantly Less Sucky If I Bothered to Save Up for More Powerful Recording Equipment" 9. Daniel Fjall - "The Drapes" 10. Poly Lite Plus - "Fun Festival" 11. The Hector Collectors - "Tantric New Romantic" 12. Physical Illusion - "The Open Window" 13. Joe Hinchcliffe - "Mercury's Star"
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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 | 0.010 | 0.039 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.021 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.012 |
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".