Bibliographic record
Abstract
It was September.I took the train to Belfast-the old, creaking Enterprise-with Derek Mahon.Somewhere, if I looked hard for it, I might find the letter Derek wrote me when I was a student at Trinity and he was in London for the summer.It was the letter of a Glengormley Proust, describing "the good, ihe generous train," which left three times a day from Westland Row.In it, he wrote lovingly about the stations along the way-the last sight of Malahide, the first of the Boyne Valley, the angles of Dundalk, the arrival in Belfast.It was a letter about the new and strange-to me at least-written by someone to whom it was all familiar.It was also a letter about distances and estrangements.I had never been to Belfast.He had only just got used to Dublin.The distance between them-this was the middle sixties-was to prove far greater than any of us could have imagined.And so it was with Irish poetry as well.When I finally took the train and went to Belfast on a crisp autumn afternoon, I was crossing into more than a new city and an unfamiliar politic.One of the promises Derek's letter had made was about the Crown Bar, just across Victoria Street.In his letter he described its wild carving, its ornate wooden drinking booths, and the way John Betjeman had praised it.We stopped there briefly, ate bowls of Irish stew for less than a shilling-proper Irish stew with lamb shanks and broken potatoes -and went on to meet Michael.This is not a piece about friendship, nor does it need to be.We became friends then, and have been friends ever since.Instead, it is intended as an argument-and, in this, a particular tribute to Michael-about the way poets influence each other through the painful challenges and cross-grained exchanges of their youths.And then carry that with them into their growth and finish as poets-still arguing, still muttering under their breath, still imagining an evening in Belfast or Dublin, that became a midnight, that became a dawn, that lasted a week and then softened finally into a question, held forever like a talisman or a much-loved letter.And so it was with me.When I went to Belfast that autumn I was just beginning my third year at Trinity.More important, in my mind, was the fact that I was still an unconstructed Yeatsian.Perhaps I wouldn't have used the adjective.But as a schoolgirl, reading him for the first time, and as a student, with his book still on my night table, Yeats had seemed to me beyond chal-
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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".