The sinking of the Arandora Star
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Abstract
The sinking of the Arandora StarJohn decided they should journey home via the United States of America (USA).He wanted to visit his newly married sister Nancy on the West Coast.Cecily did not believe they had enough money to do this and, at the time, nobody was allowed to take more than 10 pounds out of England.John always seemed to live 'a halfpenny or sixpence beyond his income, believing that it would increase, or his financial needs would in some other way be provided for -which always seemed to happen', Cecily observed over the years. 1 They paid for everything in advance and counted on Nancy putting them up, for they had no spare money to stay anywhere else.They obtained a passage on the British Cunard Line's Samaria that left from Liverpool on 29 June 1940, with 788 passengers bound for New York, escorted by a destroyer and a plane.Thirty miles behind them was Blue Star Line's Arandora Star.The two liners travelled in convoy.The fate of the two liners remained indelibly in Cecily's mind.The Arandora Star had been a luxury liner sailing from Southampton in the 1930s with a 400-passenger capacity.When war broke out, it was called up for trooping duties and refitted to carry 1,700 men.On board was a full complement of German and Italian prisoners of war, headed for Canadian internment camps.On the morning of day three, 2 July 1940, passengers on the Samaria noticed the absence of the Arandora Star.They were now off the north-west coast of Ireland, and the ship had last been seen across 1 Cecily, 39.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.049 | 0.010 |
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".