Bibliographic record
Abstract
JOHN PASCALL Larkins, who had managed the family business for a quarter of a century, had died in August 1818. In his will John expressed his regret at not having provided more adequately for his children. However, as managing owner of nine ships in the Company's service between 1793 and 1818, he had provided a living for several members of his extended family. Henry Morse Samson took over the management of Larkins & Co.'s remaining ships: Marquis Camden , Warren Hastings (2) and (3) and Larkins . John's own son, always called Tommy by family and friends, had been sworn in to the command of Marquis Camden in August 1816. Just married, he joined the Society of East India commanders and in time-honoured tradition promised to provide a hogshead of claret to celebrate the birth of his first child. He was only twenty-two years old, three years short of the minimum age for a commander according to Company regulations, but lying about one's age was in the tradition of the family and of the Company's maritime service generally. Nevertheless, his ship had the reputation of being one of the smartest in the service. On 23 January 1821 Thomas was at Portsmouth on his second voyage commanding Marquis Camden , one of the six ships bound for Bombay and China, with 200 Company recruits and their commanding officer, the only passenger, on board. The Court's instructions required its commanders to take observations by the lunar method, a practice no longer rigorously followed as chronometers became more reliable. On Marquis Camden the longitude by chronometer only was entered on most days. The committee investigating the loss of Cabalva , 1200 tons, on a rocky island near Mauritius in 1818 had been struck by her officers’ inability to take lunar observations and their general ignorance of good navigational skills. They concluded that the relevant section in the mates’ examination should be extended to include working time for correction of chronometers and taking angular distances. Perhaps this was the reason why Captain Larkins invited one of his midshipmen, John Miller, who showed great promise as a navigator, to come to his cabin every day at noon to ‘work the time’ and compare the chronometers with him, for which Miller was very grateful.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.065 | 0.021 |
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".