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DeepMind’s New AI Teaches Itself to Play Minecraft From Scratch

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Learning From Experience Children naturally soak up their environment. Scientists have adopted the same principles for AI, essentially raising algorithms like children. Learning from mistakes and wins sounds easy. This is a notoriously hard problem and the results are fantastic.

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Raise More Gifts From Members By Understanding Their Motivations

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The new space was phenomenal—from outdoor climbing and obstacle courses, interactive exhibits that spanned life-size light-up games, to aeronautics with flying balls, to roller coaster physics, to water play with sound bowls. Adults had as much fun as the children. Admirable goal. On the surface, it may look like space is the issue.

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Equity in Arts Funding: We're Not There Yet. We're Not Even Close.

Museum 2.0

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. The title may sound innocuous. Even as demographics change and public participation in the arts shifts away from these Euro-traditional formats, the money still flows down the old pathways.

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Turning Visitors into Customers: Maximising Retail Potential for Museums

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If so, be sure to stock lots of inexpensive and fun items for children. If this sounds like you, think about offering one-of-a-kind furniture and home accessories. . Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum collaborated with German toy manufacturer Playmobil to create a line of toys replicating art from the collection. Ringing it all up .

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6 Creative Program Ideas for Arts & Cultural Organizations

Connection Cafe

On a recent trip to Chicago, I checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art. As I walked around delighting in the weirdness that is contemporary art, I realized how advantageous it can be to not have any permanent exhibits. Christmas lights, ice sculptures, and penguins sounded pretty awesome! Think Beyond Your Primary Service.

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Cryptoys banks a16z funding to build NFTs for kids

TechCrunch

With that as background, it might not seem like the best time to launch an NFT platform, let alone one geared toward children. And yet, NFT startup Cryptoys is raising tens of millions of dollars with the goal of building a blockchain-based toy company that can expose younger users to the ideas of digital ownership and NFT mechanics.

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Non-Fungible Fundraising: NFTs for Good

Whole Whale

There are many exchanges to find NFTs and each one tends to specialize in different types of art or styles. What’s more, artists will continue to get a percentage of the future sales of that NFT art into the future. Considerations: Create a list of ideas for types of art or moments that might have value as a NFT.