Colin Thubron, The Amur River: Between Russia and China by John S. Sledge
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord around them, avoiding mines, U-boats, suffering torpedo attacks, and a few unfortunate sinkings.Lieutenant Stoke makes frequent prideful references in his letters to his family about winning rugby matches and other sporting competitions amid the serious terrors of war.All the while the young man was advancing his academic studies and earning praise from his superiors, thus advancing his naval career at a rapid pace.There are occasional breaks in the narrative where he describes his thoughts in personal letters while keeping within the confines of wartime security.In turn, Mick very humanly yearns for letters from his family and from Doreen, later his future wife.He has strong opinions about the German enemy, but also waxes mildly polemical about the French, Algerians, Egyptians, Italians, and the Americans.He expresses dismay at American racial prejudice he observed and particularly their attitude to the war."They are mainly preoccupied with Japan and consider Germany is mostly a subsidiary war….The newspapers concentrate so much on American news that British achievements only get attention if they are really startling and then it will be headlines for only a day" (222).Cleverly titled, well written, fast moving, More Lives Than a Ship's Cat is a riveting look at British naval history from an unusual, intimate point of view.Mick Stoke's extraordinary life appears as an uncommon version of everyman.I highly recommend Stoke's work for maritime historians concerned with the Royal Navy during the Second World War.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".