A pioneer gathering of books of a sententious character, comprising proverbs, parables, sage summaries and saws, being the contents of the Log shanty book shelf for the year 1893, in the Pioneer Lodge, Exhibition Park, Toronto.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the great dearth of general literature in these parts in the old pioneer days any books or pamphlets which furnished forth a supply however scanty of pro- verbs, pithy sayings, aphorisms and similitudes, were very acceptable to any one having the least inclination for reading and study.Such expressions seemed always to contain so much in so small a compass.The local almanac generally supplied a few proverbs, adopting occasionally the style and even the language of Franklin's " Poor Richard" ; sometimes the local newspaper furnished a few, even when its columns in other respects were very scantily supplied.These were all conned over with gratitude in the absence of other matter for consideration.With homely primitive folk a small stock of proverbs is found to be very useful in many emergencies of the head, heart and hands.In short, the compact set of sayings thus stored up might be compared to the old-fashioned pocket-knife which young lads aforetime were so proud to possess, containing in its handle besides several blades a great variety of little implements -a corkscrew, button-hook, gimlet, turnscrew, tweezers, pincers, fleam or lancet, &c.Don Quixote, when a copy was secured, of course became a favorite, especially for the sake of the utter- ances of his garrulous companion.Bunyan's Pilgrims' Progress and even Robin- son Crusoe came to be especially valued for the sake of the many aphorisms con- tained therein.A Collection begun at York, U. C. (Toronto), 182] I. EARLY CHANCE FINDS.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.119 | 0.032 |
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".