Bibliographic record
Abstract
I think we've all had the experience of hearing one side of a telephone conversation.Maybe it's at home where you can't help overhearing what your teenager is saying to a friend … as you wait to use the phone.Maybe it's your spouse calling a contractor about some work on the house.Or, more recently, it's likely while waiting in a store or an airport when some guy whips out his cell phone and begins making LOUD TALK, and you wonder, Is this call really necessary?Or is he just letting us know how important he is?In all these cases you get only one side of the conversation, and it would be unwise to conclude that you really knew what the person on the other end of the line was saying.That's exactly what we have in the New Testament readings for this morning: one side of two conversations.And it's not easy to make sense of that one side because we don't know what the other side of the conversation is.Take the reading from James.Personally, I really like the Letter of James.It's straightforward, no mincing of words, with beautiful imagery.Yet it is a letter which Martin Luther praised but faintly!It's especially James 2:17 that gave Luther fits, where the author says that "a person is justified by works and not by faith alone." 2 But even in our reading for today there is this strong emphasis on doing, with only a hint or two of the grace which makes such doing possible.What -and who -are we not hearing when we hear the author of James saying these things?Well, at the least we're not hearing the Apostle Paul.Because, as Lutherans steeped in Paul, we know that Paul said we are saved by grace through faith.We are not saved by our works, by the keeping of God's law.We are saved apart from that law by what Jesus Christ has done.We Lutherans have imbibed this message so thoroughly that we can make jokes about it, like the one 107
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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 | 0.026 | 0.046 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.040 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.015 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.014 |
| Research integrity | 0.015 | 0.019 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 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; 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".