Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In remote and hybrid work settings, ensuring employees feel connected to their teams through structured check-ins and virtual social space is critical. Recognition activates the brains reward system, which reinforces motivation and increases engagement. When employees feel unappreciated, resentment builds.

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The Next Web

MARCH 4, 2014

I’ve written how creativity works in the brain before, and I found it really useful to understand this process. There’s so much going on in the brain during creativity that science is still trying to pin down exactly how it all works. your “busy” space—to a free, creative space sends a signal to your brain.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

And how is that structured? Or do you need more and better structured map data about the world around you, to make self-driving happen? So let’s talk about Argo; how many people work there? I think we’re approaching 1,400 now. We have engineering offices here in the US, as well as in Munich, Germany. Has that proven out?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. 4) Read more books. My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers.

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The Next Web

MARCH 7, 2014

My brain is trying desperately to stop me, saying things like, What you’re writing right now sucks. My brain fed off this uncertainty to try and stop me from writing because that’s what brains do?—?they It’s as if writing loosens up your brain, allowing ways for it to connect it ways it couldn’t before. No one cares!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If I can’t process what I hear by asking questions of the expert or checking in with another participate or sitting quietly and just thinking about what was shared, there is a point that I reach after about 15 minutes – it’s call “My Brain Is Full Up.” I’ve really taken to heart the movement principle.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2013

School days are eight hours long and classes are usually structured by slots of time rather than what is accomplished in that time. Your body keeps track of time in a section in your brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (or SCN). When you get a job, usually part or all of your pay is based on hours worked. An un-timed break.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Li, Research Scientist, and Sven Dorkenwald, Student Researcher, Connectomics at Google Mapping the wiring and firing activity of the human brain is fundamental to deciphering how we think — how we sense the world, learn, decide, remember, and create — as well as what issues can arise in brain disease or dysfunction.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

The group, called Orange DAO , is an effort to build out a venture structure which can scout out and back young crypto startups. “And we will do it responsibly and equitably by becoming a DAO governed by its members because our hive mind is greater than any single ape brain.” The only condition for joining? Constitution.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Currently, AD is typically diagnosed via cognitive testing alongside expensive PET brain scans or invasive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tests, which are costly and painful. But recently, a much less invasive blood test has demonstrated comparable accuracy to these methods.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 13, 2021

The brain dump. Start to put some structure to your ideas. Punctuation, spelling, sentence structure. Whenever you are writing your stories, whether it be for a newsletter, for a speech, for an appeal letter, or for a Facebook post, considering going through the following 5 steps. . Pre-writing. . Drafting. .

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2021

Tensions between Google and its AI brain trust DeepMind have always been fascinating. Google, meanwhile, bought DeepMind in 2014 and bankrolls its large losses , and it really, really wants to squeeze some money out of all those juicy brains. Photo by Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. First, with discipline and structure. Perhaps we are confusing qualitative data with gut decisions ? How do you make sense?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But Gebru’s team is pushing back on that assessment, saying the review policy is meant to be flexible, and most people do not follow the structure Dean laid out. Gebru sent an email to the Brain Women and Allies listserv at Google detailing the pushback she’d gotten on the paper.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

The company announced this morning a $73 million Series B round co-led by Globis Capital Partners and World Innovation Lab (WiL), with participation from existing investors DCM and Global Brain. In December 2018, the company closed a $9 million Series A round led by DCM and followed by Globis Capital Partners and WiL and Global Brain.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Fortunately, when it comes to the structure of a Letter of Inquiry, you dont have to guess at what is required. Once you wrap your brain around these truths about what funders want to accomplish with their giving, you can begin to shape the message in your Letter of Inquiry that’ll give them exactly what they want.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Even for the most left-brain of thinkers, it’s not in our nature to understand large abstract numbers or things like marginal improvements in accuracy. In working with numbers, data practitioners have a responsibility to provide the necessary structure so that the data can be understood by the intended audience.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. Spam filtering, fraud detection, and recommendation systems are examples. Deep learning uses artificial neural networks to learn from data. DL applications have revolutionized areas such as image recognition and natural language processing.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Pick the Bot’s Brain AI powered chatbots learn from user interactions. They are good for handling straightforward and structured interactions and are easy to build and maintain, making them an appropriate choice for beginners or initiatives with well-defined processes. There are two types of chatbots.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Zeit Medical’s brain-monitoring wearable could help raise the alarm and get people to the hospital fast enough to mitigate the stroke’s damage and potentially save lives. “As soon as the stroke hits you, your brain starts dying, so time is the most crucial thing. but we see a need globally,” said Naber.

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The Verge

JANUARY 16, 2021

It will test the 212 foot tall core of the SLS, which consists of four engines, liquid fuel tanks, and the computer and technical systems that NASA calls the “brains” of the rocket. The huge structure is anchored into the ground with over 144 feet of concrete and steel that will absorb and redirect the thrust from the engines, McKibbin said.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The science of neuroplasticity shows that you can learn the practice of mindfulness training that results in physical changes to the structure of your brain -- in some cases as quickly as eight weeks -- that can be linked to better leadership skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! One infamous example is Foldit , a protein-folding puzzle game that crowdsources potential real-world protein structures and solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Being/Doing Structure: The first day offered more structure. In a very funny way, Alan discouraged us from doing that by telling us that when we sit with people we know, we are not open to making new connections and form cliques. There were 12 topics organized into three different themes.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Today's connections fall into the following categories: Yellow: Structures by the Shore Green: Small Imperfection Blue: Sounds a Cuckoo Clock Makes Purple: Tail Looking for Wordle today? There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

According to John Medina, author of Brain Rules , we retain 10% of its information three days after reading text. To excavate it, we developed a story framework structured around a hook, the conflict, and its resolution. Data visualization uses graphs, maps, and other graphics to communicate complex information more effectively.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Founded by members of the “Brains in Silicon” group at Stanford, which seeks to reverse-engineer how the brain uses relatively little data to learn, Femtosense aims to tackle use cases like noise suppression and speech enhancement for hearing aids and earbuds as well as security cameras, TVs and cars.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The science behind slowing down Neuroscience supports the idea that structured reflection enhances cognitive performance and decision-making. Harvard Business School research has shown that leaders who regularly engage in structured reflection improve their productivity and performance by 23%. Science backs this up.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

. (#11NTCSocialCRM) Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) - The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

Breath links mind, brain, and body – and paying attention to your breath help cultivate mindfulness. People who can bridge networks – fill structural holes – stand to benefit. Diverse networks are collectively smarter and provide a richer variety of resources to participating nodes. Small talk nourishes trust.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

This gave me a start to get past the blank page, and helped me to develop the structure of my post. How naps affect your brain and why you should have one every day. In this post, I referenced an earlier Buffer post by Brian Bailey and drew on what he’d already written about the process of decision-making.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

This is made possible by exploiting the low- rank structure of the empirical Fisher information matrix. For faster convergence, we developed a new line-search method that exploits the problem structure to find a suitable learning rate, i.e., one that leads to a sufficiently large decrease in the loss.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

In the context of this column, growth is not about structured acquisition of new knowledge or skills but focused on learning to apply knowledge in unexpected ways and stretching boundaries of comfort. Formal Structure And Encouragement Your people are the most important organizational asset. What Is Growth? McKinsey & Company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Qin found that existing note tools like Evernote and Notion didn’t connect and organize related documents the way he needed, relying too much on a hierarchical file structure. Users, including teams at Google Brain, IDEO, Meta, Tesla, MIT, Stanford and Harvard, also contributed to the round. Logseq is entirely different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. As we face an even darker winter due to the pandemic, we need to keep improving our resilience, the ability to adapt well in spite of significant stressors.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

These pill-shaped structures are enveloped in two membranes. The outer membrane is structural. The injection didnt reach the brain or kidneys, and they found very few signs of editing in the liver. The main set is inside the nucleus. In hearts, the treatment upped normal transfer RNA levels by 50 percent.

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