Bibliographic record
Abstract
Born in 1943, Barry Altschul grew up in the West Bronx in the forties and fifties. Altschul is a jazz drummer who first learned to play the drums at age eleven. He grew up playing shows in the Bronx and Harlem while also attending “jam sessions” where he received pointers from jazz musicians such as Philly Joe and Art Blakey.\nAltschul attended elementary school at PS 70, junior high school at PS 117, and then attended Taft High School. Altschul’s elementary school’s ethnic makeup was mostly white, whereas in high school Altschul recalls that the student body was 21% black. Altschul recognizes the cultural exchanges that would happen between himself and his friends when visiting homes or when his friends visited his family. At the time, Altschul felt that people of all ethnic groups got along unless there were gang rivalries between groups. While he knew people in gangs, as many people at the time did, Altschul spent his high school years on the swim team as well as singing with a group both in school as well as in neighborhood jam sessions with many other musicians. Not permitted by his parents to attend Music and Art in Harlem, Altschul improved his music while learning from musicians at jam sessions in various clubs, bowling alleys, and apartments, such as Elmo Hope’s.\nFor a period, Altschul attended the bar Slugs in Manhattan every night, a bar in which he, Paul Bley, and Dave Izenzon were the first band to ever play. At the time, along with other musicians, Altschul was using heroin, but was clean by age fifty. Altschul has played bebop gigs in Montreal with guitarist Billy White and a variety of other musicians. He also toured Europe, visited Argentina, and traveled from Africa to Brazil to Haiti to study the roots of the drums.\nAltschul went on to teach both privately and at Sarah Lawrence and played music with Billy Bang and Joe Fonda. While playing with so many musicians, Altschul recognized a commonality among Bronx musicians, a recognizable playing style particular to those who grew up playing jazz in the Bronx.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.201 | 0.064 |
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".