Bibliographic record
Abstract
DURING the past winter of 1905-6, we have again been visited with an unusual abundance of Sno;vy Owls.I called attention to this flight in a short note published in 'The Auk' for January, 1906 (p.100), but at that time I had been unable to obtain suftldent data on the subject.During December, January, and February I received records of some eight hundred specimens from localities scattered from Nova Scotia west to Nebraska and from Manitoba south to Missouri, showing that in this territory, at least, the flight had been quite general.As to the cause of these periodical incursions we have not much more information to enlighten us than we had during their abundance in the winters of 1901-2.• The weather during these visits has not been unusually severe and the temperature of the past season was one of marked mildness and considerably above the normal point in most localities.There see•ns to be little doubt that a scarcity of food •nust influence these southward movements.In stone favorable localities, where in former years these owls were conspicuously represented, this past season but few, if any, have occurred.I have had to rely largely for •ny information upon the taxidermists who have received them for preservation, and to them I take this occasion to express •ny obligations, as well as to all others, for their kind assistance.NOVA SCOTIA.Mr. J. W. Bouteillier, Marconi Wireless Station, Sable Island, Nova Scotia, writes under date of April 6, 1906, as follows: "For the last three winters we have noticed Snowy Owls here in greater abundance than ever before.In the winter of 1902-3 there were
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".