Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ethnic groups are defined in part by the thoughts and feelings each commits to silence. For people who leave their homeland, maintaining the silence that is part of their cultural identity is particularly trying. For the recently immigrated Japanese who were forcibly relocated to detention centers in Canada during the Second World War, new silences, those of exiles within their land of exile, were to overlap with those of their heritage, and shortly thereafter with the deliberate silence of their children, who were determined to become a part of the post-war Canadian culture even at the expense of their ethnic roots. It was left to the following generation, the paradoxically “intermediate” third generation, to separate the various layers and turn the silence that is viewed as a curse of history, victim to the vagaries of the times, into the resonance of an ethnic and personal past, and thereby a fundamental part of the individual’s search for identity. Through a mix of narrative fragments and evocations of the past, this is the exploration Joy Kogawa poignantly pursues in Obasan.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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 teacher head, 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".