Review of Blair, Rev. Duncan, 'Parting, Prophecy, Poetry'. With trans. by John A. Macpherson and Michael Linkletter (Sydney, Nova Scotia: Cape Breton University Press, 2013). Pp. 256. ISBN 978-1-927492-43-7, EPUB 978-1-927492-45-1. CA$14.95.
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Abstract
This present work is one by the Rev. Duncan Blair (1815-1893). This stimulating publication is shaped quite elegantly and it comes with a translation by John A. Macpherson and Michael Linkletter. While much of the story is concerned with the settlement of these displaced Celts in Canada, readers will be most / as much interested in the account of their nurture in Scotland, as they will be in the circumstances of the life of Duncan Blair, his studies in Edinburgh, his learning of Gaelic, and the phases of his family's bonding with Scotland, despite the removal to Canada. Equally fascinating is the system of links between the Scottish intellectuals, at their native homes in Scotland, in, and with, their several universities in Scotland, and then in their fine parish work in Nova Scotia. This unexpected and very illuminating work is a product of the Cape Breton University Press in Canada, and is most concerned with the Reverend Doctor Duncan Black Blair. Much, too, is concerned with / treats of aspects of the disruption of the clan system in the 18th century, and the concomitant loss of the native schools in which poetry, medicine, law, and music were formally studied, and it is also / constitutes an illuminating account of the ways in which poetry, folk tales, and other aspects of oral tradition (and indeed written and printed matter in the nineteenth century) were to be communicated, since their exile had removed the obvious easy move to print as could and did occur in Scotland.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.023 |
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".