Bibliographic record
Abstract
December was mild, wet, and cloudy.The temperature averaged 35.5 degrees, 1.8 degrees above normal.The high mark was 64 degrees on December 3, and the lowest temperature at Boston was 15 degrees on the fourteenth.ChrisUnas Day was abnormally warm with a high of 58 degrees, about 18 degrees above the normal for that date.Precipitation totaled 6.38 inches, 1.90 inches more than normal with measurable amounts of rain on eleven days.Snow totaled 3.4 inches, 4.3 inches less than average.A thunderstorm struck some suburban areas on December 3 with a very heavy rain.A glaze storm on the ninth caused hazardous road conditions, and the ice broke several limbs.The highlight of December is the annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC).This year marked the eightyseventh anniversary of the original twenty-one counts taken on Christmas Day, 1900.In eastern Massachusetts there are twenty-one CBC count areas.Rather than include the results in the December field reports that follow, the complete results of all the eastern Massachusetts CBCs, except Plymouth, which had not been received at press time, are tabulated elsewhere in this issue.R.H.S. LOONS THROUGH RAPTORSAt Low Beach, Nantucket, high counts of both Red-throated and Common loons were noted all month.At this same location 23 Red-necked Grebes were also tallied on December 28.Northern Gannets were present in high numbers, with a high count of about 2100 individuals on December 22.The Greater White-fronted Goose continued to be found all month at the Wachusett Reservoir in Clinton, where it associated with a single Snow Goose and a large number of Canada Geese.An immature male Eurasian Wigeon continued in Plymouth, and at Winthrop a pair of Harlequin Ducks and a drake King Eider could be found all month.The Canvasback population at Fresh Pond dropped to a single bird on the last day of the year.Off South Monomoy, over 25,000 Common Eider were present on December 7. Oldsquaw numbers built up early in the month off Nantucket, and large numbers of all three scoters could be found in Nantucket Sound.Common Mergansers were noted from many locations with a maximum number of 400 counted at Lake Chauncy in Westboro.At least 4 Bald Eagles were noted early in the month at Quabbin, and others were seen at Great Meadows in Concord.Another adult eagle was seen feeding on a deer carcass in a claypit in Bridgewater.Red-tailed Hawks were obvious along the highways, and there were many reports of Rough-legged Hawks, especially in the Plum Island-Salisbury area.Peregrine Falcons were found in three locations, and a gray Gyrfalcon first seen in November was again seen well both in flight and perched on South Monomoy on December 7. R.H.S.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".