Eric Jay Dolin, Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery and Survival at the Edge of the World
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reviews 423 notice, he joined Stella Polaris as the ship's photographer.He was assigned to a cabin of six and told not to photograph any passengers unless they made a specific request.Under the circumstances, business was slow.Better times were ahead.Entertainment officers, Curtis's later role, play a curious role aboard ship.On cruise ships at least four communities sail together.From the bridge, the captain and his officers command the ship.The deck crew keep the vessel neat and tidy and, when necessary, ferry guests ashore in tenders.The engine gang watches over all the ship's machinery, while the hotel staff and entertainment director see to the care and feeding of the guests.On cruise ships, where pleasure is the goal, aside from a friendly hello or an invitation to sit at an officer's table, most guests are unlikely to have direct contact with the officers, deck, or engine crew.No such separation for the entertainment director.To the guests they are the most visible person on the ship.They stand at the gangway welcoming guests aboard.Later they might give directions to board the tenders and remind guests when they are due back aboard.They manage the evening's entertainment, introducing the various performers.They frequently walk about the ship greeting guests.They listen patiently as guests insist on recounting all their previous cruises.They stand ready to explain why there is not more room around the pool and, in some instances, explaining why tenders cannot be boarded in six-foot seas.For many of the guests aboard, the entertainment director is the "ship."Curtis's well-chosen subtitle for Tales from Great Passenger Ships is A Jaunt Through Time.Well informed, Curtis writes with a graceful, sometimes humorous style.The book might have benefited from a proper index and more of Curtis' personal yarns would be welcomed.Nonetheless, when packing your suntan lotion consider bringing along Tales From Great Passenger Ships.You may be able to add a story or two yourself.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.009 |
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".