A retrospective glance at the progressive state of the Natural History Society of Montreal, with a view to ascertaining how far it has advanced the important objects contemplated by its founders.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
AT THE ^rogramtie $Mi of t[n> Natural lifltonj $omtq OF MONTREAL, &c.Having, perhaps rather unwisely, consented to allow my name to be enrolled among the Lecturers before the Natural History Society this season, and perhaps still more so, though with the best intentions, selected as my topic, " A Retrospective Glance at (he Progressive State of the Society' itself, " with a view to estimating how far it has accomplished the patriotic objects contemplated by its founders, you will not be surprised at my begging permission to offer a few prelimi- nary remarks, explanatory of, as well as apologetic for, the boldness of a Stranger, in thus venturing to appear before you as the agitator of a local subject of so much importance; as well as, in some respects, of a rather delicate and even embarrassing character: and I would, at the same time, take the opportunity of bespeaking the patient in- dulgence of the fair portion of my audience in particular, towards a subject, which to them must, I fear, be dry and uninteresting at best.Permit me, then, with all due deference to others, to remark, that though the old classic saying, " Ne sutor ultra crepidam" or, in plain English, " Let the Cobbler stick to his last" may be all very well in the abstract, and it might theretore be inferred that an old soldier would be the least fitted to enter an arena such as that now before me 5 still it must be conceded that there happen to be always
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.002 |
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".