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10 unique places in the world you must see

Medium Technology Section

Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia) The worlds largest salt flat, this place creates a surreal mirror effect after rain, making it look like a vast, endless reflection of the sky. Aurora Borealis

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Minka raises $24M from Tiger, Kaszek to help move money more quickly across LatAm

TechCrunch

It plans to take its work to help Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America also modernize their payments infrastructure, with immediate plans to expand to the Dominican Republic, Bolivia and Mexico. The startup was introduced to a client in the Dominican Republic by Mastercard, with whom Minka is partnered, along with Google.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia." We brought a group of ten environmental justice lawyers from throughout North America to work in partnership with grassroots women leaders in Bolivia, with the focus on sustainable agriculture and food security issues.

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OpenAI’s latest breakthrough is astonishingly powerful, but still fighting its flaws

The Verge

That means GPT-3’s training data includes not only things like news articles, recipes, and poetry, but also coding manuals, fanfiction, religious prophecy, guides to the songbirds of Bolivia, and whatever else you can imagine. And, yes, that includes the bad stuff as well. It’s all there, feeding the machine.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. They were a group of illiterate women who dictated their requests to a priest in the village, who then hand wrote the request. I think the biggest challenge for us is trying to make hard decisions.

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