5 BFTS Association Newsletter No 1 - March
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As I write this, I am looking out of the window onto a very snowy scene – for the third time since New Year, we struggle to drive down our road. It’s rather cold for March. Which makes me think of Clewiston where the temperature is hitting 28°C or 82°F just now – very pleasantly warm! Hugo Trotter (Co 11) was in Clewiston in March 1943. Hugo has allowed me to see his photograph album containing photographs taken between September 1942 and May 1943 (between arriving in Canada as a cadet and leaving Canada as a pilot). Wonderful memories for those who were there, and such an interesting archive for those who were not and only know Riddle Field when the buildings were empty and deteriorating, or from historical pictures or as the empty field it is today. The first tranche of pictures is in this newsletter. Thank you Hugo. Three other people who are significant in the life of the 5BFTS Association were also on Course 11. One is John Jorgenson who died in January 2016 but whose death is included in ‘In Memoriam’ this time. The other two are John Potter (died 2011) and Fen Charlesworth (died 2006). Please read ‘In Memoriam’ to find out why. I promised that this edition would focus on the Instructors – without whom the cadets would not have become the excellent pilots that they were. The civilian instructors could all fly when they arrived at Riddle Field, but many were not much older than the cadets they taught, and some had to be taught to teach! They represented nearly half the States in America and produced 1,434 graduate pilots. They didn’t win the DFCs, they weren’t mentioned in Dispatches, but without them, the cadets would not have been the pilots that they became and in the words of my father, George (Co 3) “I feel it would be difficult to have had any better experience that we had in Florida”. Thank you to them all. ‘Their efforts to preserve the freedom of the world were not in vain and will never be forgotten’
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.031 | 0.003 |
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".