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Tell the marines
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The origin of this phrase, which indicates disbelief of a statement or story, has two widespread and mutually-exclusive interpretations. [1] in the first—no doubt advanced by seamen— marines are portrayed as thick-witted naive greenhorns who, unlike intelligent and alert sailors, would believe any tale put to them, no matter how farfetched. [2] in the second, samuel pepys, the famed diarist and admiralty official, writes of relaying reports of flying fish to king charles ii who scoffed at this unbelievable story. a major of marines, who happened to be at court, assured the skeptical monarch he had personally seen them, whereupon the king is reputed to have said: no class of our subjects can have so wide a knowledge of seas and lands as the officers and men of our loyal maritime regiment. henceforth, before we ever cast doubts upon a tale which lacks likelihood, we shall first tell it to the marines.
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Widespread, английский
Intelligent, английский
Интеллектуальный
Unbelievable, английский
Personally, английский
Henceforth, английский
Likelihood, английский
- Вероятность. правдоподобие.
- Правдоподобие; вероятность
- In probabilistic and statistical methods, the likelihood is a measure of the evidence for the data when a hypothesis is assumed to be true. it is commonly used in bayesian and quasi-bayesian techniques. a related measure, minimum message length, can be derived from information theoretic principles. as an example, suppose you observe a data value x that is assumed to be gaussian. the likelihood for that data when the assumed mean is, say, 5, and the variance is 10, is proportional to e-((x-5)2/2*10), the kernel of a gaussian distribution. a likelihood is typically calculated using the kernel, rather than the complete distribution function, which includes the normalizing constants. see also: minimum message length.
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Temperature chimney, английский
A pipe leading from the deck into the hold of a bulker, down which a thermometer can be lowered to determine heat build-up which might lead to spontaneous combustion.
Tell off, английский
To detail seamen for special duty.
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