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Fredrics, Howard

2024· article· W7124384332 on OpenAlex
Reyna Lee Stovall

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueDigitalResearch@Fordham (Fordham University) · 2024
Typearticle
Language
FieldMedicine
TopicEthics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGrandparentOperaPianoFamily lifeBiographyPoetry
DOInot available

Abstract

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Summarizer: Sophia Maier Howard Fredrics paternal grandparents came from Poland, and his maternal grandparents came from Ukraine, eventually all settling in the Bronx. His parents, both living in the Bronx, met in the Catskills, where his father was performing as a magician. Fredrics himself lived on Walton Avenue across the street from Joyce Kilmer Park. He remembers playing in that park, going to the candy store and deli, and visiting his family members’ stores. He would go with his father, a professional magician with various other jobs, to rent pigeons in the Bronx for his shows, which Fredrics would later take part in by age 12. In 1968, Fredrics’ family moved from the Bronx to Roslyn Heights, Long Island, where he grew up and still owns the family house. He grew up surrounded by music and theatrical performance, both of his parents being piano players, which influenced his career in music. Fredrics received his doctorate in music from the University of Texas Austin, where he met his wife. In 2002, Fredrics moved to England to work as a university professor of music, during which time he faced antisemitism and threats of violence, becoming a whistleblower for corruption. He eventually fled the country, though all charges were dropped against him in 2017. Fredrics is very interested in researching and documenting his family’s history, including writing an opera about his cousin, the boxer Jack Kid Berg, and finding and meeting distant relatives from Europe, Canada, and South America. When Fredrics left the Bronx in 1968, he witnessed the begin of the decimation of the borough, not visiting regularly for many years. More recently, he has started attending Yankee games more frequently and walking around his old neighborhood nearby. Fredrics shares that though the ethnic makeup is different, it is the same in the sense that it is the latest immigrant groups, as the Jews once were. He associates the Bronx with the joy and fun of being a kid, but also the loss of all the family he once knew there. Keywords: Poland, Ukraine, Catskills, Walton Avenue, Joyce Kilmer Park, Yankee Stadium, dentist, Mullaly Park, PS 114, family, Xavier Cugat Big Band, magic, television, Long Island, England, Kingston University, antisemitism, Labour Party, trial, Jack Kid Berg, opera, music, University of Texas Austin, Yiddish, genealogy, Holocaust

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesResearch integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.875
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.007
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0010.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.004

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.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.341
Teacher spread0.301 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it