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The Surprising Link Between Carly Simon And The Great Gatsby

The Surprising Link Between Carly Simon And The Great Gatsby

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Chances are you know Carly Simon from hits like You’re So Vain and Mockingbird. Perhaps you’ve heard her Bond theme Nobody Does It Better, or even read her children’s books (she wrote several). But it’s far more likely that you’ve read something her father was responsible for getting published. That’s because her dad, Richard L. Simon, was the co-founder of American publishing house Simon & Schuster. The company is responsible for releasing titles like To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, Hang The Moon, and Someone Like You. The Great Gatsby, Farewell to Arms, and Cry, the Beloved Country were also published by Scribner, which Simon & Schuster acquired in 1994. Carly Simon (aptly) wrote about her experiences growing up Carly – whose mother, Andrea Heinemann Simon, was a singer and civil rights activist – grew up with two sisters (who also went pursued careers in music) and a brother. The future Grammy winner quit college early to join her sister Lucy in the band The Simon Sisters. However, Bob Dylan’s manager eventually persuaded her …

Set ‘Gatsby’ benchmarks for extracurricular activities

Set ‘Gatsby’ benchmarks for extracurricular activities

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More from this theme Recent articles Ministers should set benchmarks for extracurricular activities similar to those for careers advice to tackle “concerning inequalities in access”, according to the Education Policy Institute (EPI). Participating in sports and other hobbies at secondary school is “associated with positive outcomes” for pupils by the time they reach their early 20s. But not all pupils “have equal access to such activities and their benefits”, a report published today found.  The think tank said non-statutory benchmarks should set the expected standard for provision that is “accessible and appealing to a broad spectrum of students”. It said these could be “akin to the Gatsby benchmarks”, eight key standards announced by the Department for Education in 2018 which set targets on careers advice for schools to meet by 2020. Ministers should also consider backing schools to “offer an extended school day, including through additional funding weighted towards schools with more disadvantaged intakes”, the report suggests. David Robinson, director for post-16 and skills at the EPI, and author of the report, said: “If policymakers …

Anthropic’s latest model can take The Great Gatsby as input

Anthropic’s latest model can take The Great Gatsby as input

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Historically and even today, poor memory has been an impediment to the usefulness of text-generating AI. As a recent piece in The Atlantic aptly puts it, even sophisticated generative text AI like ChatGPT has the memory of a goldfish. Each time the model generates a response, it takes into account only a very limited amount of text — preventing it from, say, summarizing a book or reviewing a major coding project. But Anthropic’s trying to change that. Today, the AI research startup announced that it’s expanded the context window for Claude — its flagship text-generating AI model, still in preview — from 9,000 tokens to 100,000 tokens. Context window refers to the text the model considers before generating additional text, while tokens represent raw text (e.g. the word “fantastic” would be split into the tokens “fan,” “tas” and “tic”). So what’s the significance, exactly? Well, as alluded to earlier, models with small context windows tend to “forget” the content of even very recent conversations — leading them to veer off topic. After a few thousand …