Tracing a paradigm for externalization: Avatars and the GPII Nexus
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
We will situate the concept of an avatar (a working simulacrum of part of a system separated from \nit in space or time) with respect to traditional concepts of programming language and systems design. \nWhilst much theory and practice argues in favour of insulation (the creation of architectural boundaries \nprohibiting the leakage of information) we will find that many successful systems take a diametrically \nopposed approach. We name this family of systems as those based on externalised state transfer. \nRather than hiding implementation details behind APIs, object interfaces or similar, these systems actively \nadvertise their internal structure and its coordinates via data and metadata. Examples of these \nsystems include RESTful web applications, MIDI devices, and the DWARF debugging file format. We \ndiscuss such systems and how we can purposefully design new systems embodying such virtues in a more \ndistilled form.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 it