Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

At Benetech, we advance technology applications that empower and protect underprivileged populations, and that also have the potential to become financially self-sustaining enterprises. Benetech Labs is where the Benetech team and our social impact partners incubate new software-for-good applications. Let me explain how this is so.

Technology 163

Technology Profit Social Project 163

Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As these models increasingly find themselves deployed in production and business applications, the efficiency and costs of these models has gone from a minor consideration to a primary constraint. We have proposed a new constrained optimization algorithm for automating hyperparameter tuning. T5-Large models have <1% nonzero entries.

Research 118

Research Learning Google Sample 118

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The pump and pipeline project to Georgetown, developed by California-based Upwell Water, is the largest of at least a half dozen similar projects recently completed, under construction or proposed to bring rural Carrizo Wilcox aquifer water into the booming urban corridor that follows Interstate 35 through Central Texas.

Texas 135

Texas San Antonio Project Conservancy 135

Qgiv

MAY 16, 2022

Grants aren’t always easy to get, but with a well-written proposal, you can blow your competition out of the water. These grants can be difficult to get and require a well-thought-out grant proposal. Letter of inquiry, grant letters, and grant proposals. There are three types of proposals you may face when searching for grants.

Proposal 52

Proposal Grant Instructional Instruction 52

Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Arik, Research Scientists, Google Research, Cloud AI Team Anomaly detection (AD), the task of distinguishing anomalies from normal data, plays a vital role in many real-world applications, such as detecting faulty products from vision sensors in manufacturing , fraudulent behaviors in financial transactions , or network security threats.

Data 112

Data Ratio Sample Train 112

Google Research AI blog

APRIL 26, 2023

The first involves supervised representation learning on a large-scale dataset of labeled natural images (pulled from Imagenet 21k or JFT ) using the Big Transfer (BiT) method. However, REMEDIS is equally compatible with other contrastive self-supervised learning methods.

Images 130

Images Foundation Train Training 130

Kaggle Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

To me, this probably means, the decision rules for grant applications were somehow changed during 2007 and 2008. X=1 to 15) Total number of successful/unsuccessful grants per application Publications AA, A, B, C Total number of AA, A, B, C publications per application Role.X X=1 to 5) to nominal Person.ID.X (X=1

Application 61

Application Grant Place Contest 61

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 30, 2024

Indeed, the grant writing team may not realize that, in particular, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has much to contribute to the success of the grant application and the administrative processes that follow. will be handled in the application. M&G is not a problem to be solved after the proposal has been submitted and approved.

Grant 67

Grant Application Process Management 67

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

This method?focuses?on If you are a grantor you may need additional tools to handle the application, award, and post-award processes. Requirements allow vendors to prepare better informed and more accurate proposals in response to your request. What is Fund Accounting? on the use?of of resources more than profitability,?with

Software 328

Software Guide Nonprofit Award 328

sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If you have decided to use a collective group model, you may invite all eligible applicants to participate. They might, for example, review synopses of eligible proposals and rank them, or vote to prioritize strategic issues or geographies. Always be mindful of the burden you’re placing on applicants. Deciding About Grant Money.

Participatory 126

Participatory Leadership Community Group 126

Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

The prevalence of these methods was because existing end-to-end computer vision models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or transformers pre-trained on natural images could not be easily adapted to visual language. An illustration of the DePlot+LLM method. mathematical operations involving large numbers or multiple steps).

Chart 117

Chart Model Foundation Language 117

Candid

JULY 12, 2022

Starting a nonprofit requires a lot of work, including IRS and state applications and extensive annual reporting. When approaching prospective fiscal sponsors, be ready to give a project proposal that explains: . Your project: why it’s needed and its goals, objectives, method, evaluation, staffing, and budget. .

Sponsor 98

Sponsor Proposal Project Knowledge Base 98

Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We proposed a 2-hop spanner technique , called STAR , as an efficient and distributed graph building strategy, and showed how it significantly decreases the number of similarity computations in theory and practice, building much sparser graphs while producing high-quality graph learning or clustering outputs. closures, incidents).

Research 110

Research Google Technique Model 110

DataRobot

APRIL 21, 2022

This increase in accuracy is important to make AI applications good enough for production , but there has been an explosion in the size of these models. To better quantify this, we have developed methods to measure efficiency. It is safe to say that the accuracy hasn’t been linearly increasing with the size of the model.

Green 145

Green Environment Metrics Measure 145

Google Research AI blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Posted by Arsha Nagrani and Paul Hongsuck Seo, Research Scientists, Google Research Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a well-established technology that is widely adopted for various applications such as conference calls, streamed video transcription and voice commands. Overall architecture and training procedure for AVFormer.

Model 103

Model Audio Avatar Phase 103

The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The bill is quite simple and lays out three key restrictions for any “digital application distribution platform” that exceeds $10 million in annual revenue. Retaliate against a developer for choosing to use an alternative application store or in-application payment system.”.

North Dakota 94

North Dakota Alternative System Application 94

Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Posted by Wenhao Yu and Fei Xia, Research Scientists, Google Empowering end-users to interactively teach robots to perform novel tasks is a crucial capability for their successful integration into real-world applications. We further validate our method on a physical robot manipulator.

Language 94

Language Skills Instructional Instruction 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

Infographics can be used in different and creative ways and some obvious ones such as marketing messaging , educating about a social issue , to celebrate a successful campaign , to report to stakeholders on key performance metrics , an annual report, and even a marriage proposal ! Need some more ideas?

Design 133

Design Nonprofit Colorado Chart 133

sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

Often these community members go through a vetting or recommendation process and receive training in order to review applications. The website outlines what is expected from their grantmakers, including the background they are looking for, the time commitment, and the number of applications each grantmaker will be expected to review.

Participatory 95

Participatory Community Trend Grant 95

Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Mixture-of-experts (MoE), a type of conditional computation where parts of the network are activated on a per-example basis, has been proposed as a way of dramatically increasing model capacity without a proportional increase in computation. In sparsely-activated variants of MoE models (e.g.,

Method 78

Method Train Training Evaluation 78

Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

So, we ask the question: Can we enable similar pre-training to accelerate RL methods and create a general-purpose “backbone” for efficient RL across various tasks? While prior methods often used relatively shallow convolutional networks , we found that models as large as a ResNet 101 led to significant improvements over smaller models.

Offline 97

Offline Train Training Learning 97

Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Posted by Shunyu Yao, Student Researcher, and Yuan Cao, Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Recent advances have expanded the applicability of language models (LM) to downstream tasks. Previous methods prompt language models (LM) to either generate self-conditioned reasoning traces or task-specific actions. Act-only 25.7

Language 90

Language Model Sample Wikipedia 90

Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 28, 2023

Posted by Dahun Kim and Weicheng Kuo, Research Scientists, Google The ability to detect objects in the visual world is crucial for computer vision and machine intelligence, enabling applications like adaptive autonomous agents and versatile shopping systems. To address this, we propose cropped positional embeddings (CPE).

Train 71

Train Training Awareness Open 71

Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

a proposed input for the client’s blackbox function), from which the service begins to spawn a worker to launch an algorithm (i.e., objective functions) unified under common APIs for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of proposed methods. a Pythia policy ) to compute the following suggestions.

Open Source 95

Open Source Open Evaluation API 95

Google Research AI blog

MAY 18, 2023

There are many video understanding applications and tasks, such as understanding the semantic content of web videos and robot perception. Results We evaluate our sparse tube ViT approach using Kinetics-400 (shown below), Kinetics-600 and Kinetics-700 datasets and compare its performance to a long list of prior methods.

Video 92

Video Images Sample Method 92

Google Research AI blog

JUNE 22, 2023

While this method achieves high acoustic quality, inference (i.e., To address this issue, in “ SoundStorm: Efficient Parallel Audio Generation ”, we propose a new method for efficient and high-quality audio generation. calculating an output) can be slow, especially when decoding long sequences.

Audio 98

Audio Generation Model Voice 98

Google Research AI blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Posted by Rajat Sen and Abhimanyu Das, Research Scientists, Google Research Time-series forecasting is an important research area that is critical to several scientific and industrial applications, like retail supply chain optimization, energy and traffic prediction, and weather forecasting. a quarter or year away at daily granularity).

Benchmark 97

Benchmark Metrics Train Training 97

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

One tip I could have used early on was to plan and design the grant project before writing up a query letter or proposal. Most funders require applicants to state the outcomes of their project in the proposal. This method can lead to more focused and successful programs and services.” ” Me again.

Grant 63

Grant Project Develop Evaluation 63

The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This convenient donation method can lead to a steady stream of support without requiring employees to take additional steps. Key Features of Community Grant Programs : Application Process: Typically involves submitting a detailed proposal outlining your project, budget, and expected impact.

Donation 52

Donation Companies Giving Grant 52

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

A theory of practice, in my mind, outlines the methods and ideals behind how I get work done with clients. Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. 2 admin 07.11.08

Practice 100

Practice Consultant Open Source Articulate 100

Google Research AI blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Posted by Minji Yoon, Research Intern, and Bryan Perozzi, Research Scientist, Google Research, Graph Mining Team Industrial applications of machine learning are commonly composed of various items that have differing data modalities or feature distributions. These node embeddings are utilized by a classifier to predict each node’s label.

Teach 105

Teach Module Train Training 105

TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

As data privacy laws proliferate, it’s becoming increasingly important for companies to protect sensitive data in their applications. And we are detecting privacy entities like user name, payment method, sexual orientation, GPS location and then we understand the flow.” He added, “We built a secure privacy scanner that scans the code.

Product 77

Product Data Companies Help 77

Google Research AI blog

JULY 18, 2023

Posted by Daniel McDuff, Staff Research Scientist, and Yuzhe Yang, Student Researcher, Google Learning from periodic data (signals that repeat, such as a heart beat or the daily temperature changes on Earth’s surface) is crucial for many real-world applications, from monitoring weather systems to detecting vital signs.

Learning 70

Learning Sample Method Measure 70

Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

In the first section, I present an introductory overview of stream processing concepts, drawing extensively from the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications [1]. Consequently, I propose an alternative approach to utilizing Faust windows by leveraging the library’s own functions.

Stream 98

Stream Process Library Database 98

Nimble AMS

JUNE 28, 2024

Your committee can listen to concerns, propose changes, and work toward improving policies and benefits. Application process What does the current application process look like for your membership committee? Advocacy and support Encourage your membership committee to advocate for members’ interests within your association.

Associations 85

Associations Guide Volunteer Roles 85

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Indeed, the grant writing team may not realize that, in particular, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has much to contribute to the success of the grant application and the administrative processes that follow. will be handled in the application. M&G is not a problem to be solved after the proposal has been submitted and approved.

Build 83

Build Nonprofit Grant Application 83

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This means that texting is a foolproof method for reaching your audience. Create a request for proposal (RFP). Consultants use these documents to build out proposals that demonstrate how they would approach helping your team. Review candidates’ proposals. Review your shortlist of candidates. Select your consultant.

Consultant 52

Consultant Marketing Nonprofit Social Media 52