Bibliographic record
Abstract
According to an exchange agreement with Moscow State University, Brock University occasionally invites one of its history professors to teach here for a semester. Our second visitor was Aleksandr Pavlovich Shevyrev, an associate professor (dotsent) with the section for nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russian history. He spent the Winter 2008 semester at Brock, during winch he kept a diary. I have somewhat abridged my translation.David Schimmelpenninck van der OyeBrock UniversityIt all began with a mishap: the Americans deported me! The tiling is that I didn't get a permit at the Toronto airport's immigration office when I flew in from Moscow. The Canadian embassy there had given me a visa with a piece of paper that was attached in such a way that it was nnpossible to turn it over. I could only make out two words on the back, work permit. I decided not to wony about it, reasoning that whoever needed to would tear it off. But it tinned out that, upon entering Canada, I had to report to Immigration and get a permit on the basis of tins document.I didn't want to return to the anport [about 100 km from St Catharines], and so I went to Niagara Falls, crossed over the bridge, and surrendered myself to the American authorities. It obviously wasn't the first time. Within five minutes, after duly taking my fingerprints, they gave me a document that certified I had been denied entry into the US. I was reassured that being deported would have no lasting consequences for me in the future. I crossed the bridge back into Canada and received my permit at the border.Then I started to look for a place to stay. After looking for some time, I couldn't find an apartment and so I took a room with a lady slightly older than me. Her apartment is lovely: 18 nr bedroom, modest kitchen 12 nr, living room, dining room, balcony, two bathr ooms, and there is a 100 metre balcony on my floor with a barbecue. The building also has a fitness centre, sauna, pool and a room with a washing machine. My landlady takes good care of me now: she is always giving me some snacks, takes me shopping, didn't ask for a down payment, and even lent me the money to buy a phone card to call home back in Moscow.I began to work. I am mostly in the library, which is a pleasure. Of cour se the size of their holdings does not compare to Moscow, but the convenience [...] Fust, it is open until 11 p.m., on Friday to 8 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays to 9 p.m. Second, almost all the books are open access. You just look up a call number in the electronic catalogue and fmd it on the shelf. Since the books are arranged according to some sort of system (whose logic escapes me), you can readily see a number of other books on similar subjects.I have given two lectures [for a second-year course on modern Russian history]. The first one was about Russia's geography. A girl asked me what I was doing in 1972. I immediately understood that she wanted to know whether I remembered the first encounter between oui' hockey team and Canada's professional players. It struck me that even girls know the score. And none of the students had even been bom when it took place. I realized that tins had been an event of historical significance to Canadians. Can you remember how the series ended?The second lecture was about Paul, Alexander I, and 1812. When I talked about the law of succession and pointed out that the tsar could appoint Ins successor, just as in Russia today, no one understood my irony. I discovered that no one knew that tins was an election year in Russia. At least some students had heard of Putin.I also have seminars. During one of them I showed The Barber of Siberia, winch we discussed in the next one. I explained that the director, Nikita Mikhalkov, was teasing his audience by exaggerating all of the foreign stereotypes about Russians .Yes, yes, the students said-no human being could drink so much vodka in one go. …
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.002 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".