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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use Learning Theory. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Stanford AI Lab Papers and Talks at NeurIPS 2021

Stanford AI Lab Blog

Kochenderfer Contact : philhc@stanford.edu Links: Paper Keywords : deep learning or neural networks, sparsity and feature selection, variational inference, (application) natural language and text processing Provable Guarantees for Self-Supervised Deep Learning with Spectral Contrastive Loss Authors : Jeff Z.

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Stanford AI Lab Papers and Talks at ICLR 2022

Stanford AI Lab Blog

Guibas, Hao Dong Contact : kaichun@cs.stanford.edu Links: Paper | Video | Website Keywords : visual affordance learning, robotic manipulation, 3d perception, interactive perception Language modeling via stochastic processes Authors : Rose E Wang, Esin Durmus, Noah Goodman, Tatsunori Hashimoto Contact : rewang@stanford.edu Award nominations: Oral Presentation (..)

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Other Papers About the Theory of Reward Learning

The AI Alignment Forum

The Perils of Optimizing Learned Reward Functions: Low Training Error Does Not Guarantee Low Regret In this paper , we look at what happens when a learnt reward function is optimised. This means that it essentially makes the analysis in this paper more realistic, and more closely applicable to humans.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs. To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH).

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Research directions Open Phil wants to fund in technical AI safety

The AI Alignment Forum

Typically, toy models are very small, trained on a carefully constructed synthetic dataset, or idealized and amenable to mathematical analysis ( Scherlis et al. Nice-to-have criterion: Capabilities validation: Analysis of how much harder it is to achieve frontier capabilities with the novel approach than the mainstream. Hnni et al.