Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. The physical space where you deliver your training is just one piece of the instructional design puzzle.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Brain researchers have relied on devices called microelectrode arrays for decades, but the technology behind these tools is increasingly outdated. In order to understand what’s going on in the brain, sometimes a EEG or MRI from outside it just isn’t enough — you need to really get in there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

The tech world has not offered much succor to those affected by things like locked-in syndrome, ALS, and severe strokes, but startup Cognixion aims to with a novel form of brain monitoring that, combined with a modern interface, could make speaking and interaction far simpler and faster. Overhauling decades-old brain tech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2024

Neural Networks: Algorithms inspired by the human brain that are used in deep learning and other AI applications. Data Bias: Prejudice or skewed results in AI systems due to biased training data. Natural Language Processing (NLP): The ability of machines to understand, interpret, and generate human language.

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.orgSource

APRIL 29, 2024

Training is the magic that transforms LLMs from a blank slate into a bot, or a machine with a ‘personality.’ In training the AI is exposed to vast amounts of text, datasets, and other types of information from the internet. AI creates context in much the same way as a human brain establishes meaning.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Synthetaic is a startup working to create data — specifically images — that can be used to train artificial intelligence. The startup also validates its results after an AI has been trained on Synthetaic’s synthesized images, by testing that AI on real data. The startup announced today that it has raised $3.5

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

There are plenty of inspiring pandemic projects to go around, but one of the most striking (and brain-breaking) has to be this model train video created by Jason Shron of the YouTube channel Rapido Trains. Shron is a devoted train enthusiast and talented model maker. It looks, concerningly, like a rail train ride.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Sudden departures lead to expenses related to recruiting, hiring, training, as well as lost productivity and project disruptions. Recognition activates the brains reward system, which reinforces motivation and increases engagement. One of the most obvious consequences is financial loss.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing and ingesting ever-larger data troves. But annotating and manipulating that training data takes a lot of time and money, slowing down the work or overall effectiveness, and maybe both. V7 even lays out how the two services compare.)

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Medium Technology Section

MARCH 26, 2025

A Deep Dive into Digital Cognitive Tools Continue reading on Curated Newsletters

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. Design for Participants To Apply. Participants should be encouraged to bring more than one person. So, you have to design for that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Her brain is constantly at work dreaming up new campaigns, and rather than shying away from being different and taking risks, she embraces it. Overconfidence about their social media skills prevents most social media managers from getting the necessary training. Please get training!

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 12, 2021

By subtly manipulating your music, AlphaBeats' clever algorithm can train your brain to relax. The startup's CEO explains in an interview how the tech works.

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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.” Training Design' Incorporating Movement.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Our virtual volunteering offerings also include Donate Your Brain , a microvolunteering initiative. That means there's no application to fill out, no interview, no training, no long-term commitment. In our Donate Your Brain initiative, volunteers choose how and when to participate whenever they want to. Simple, right?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

What are some ways you can use questions to improve your technology trainings? Questions ask your brain to mine your experience and expertise to come up with answers. nptech NTC nten training' You become aware of what your thoughts and understandings are about the topic.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s company focused on developing brain-machine interfaces, has posted a video to YouTube that appears to show a monkey navigating an on-screen cursor using only its mind. Pong is a classic of brain-machine interfaces — in 2006, Matthew Nagle did a similar feat with four days’ worth of training.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Posted by Zi Wang and Kevin Swersky, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team Bayesian optimization (BayesOpt) is a powerful tool widely used for global optimization tasks, such as hyperparameter tuning , protein engineering , synthetic chemistry , robot learning , and even baking cookies.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital and Tsinghua University School of Clinical Medicine jointly announced on Tuesday that they have achieved the world’s first clinical trial using an implanted epidural electrode brain-computer interface (BCI) to treat limb paralysis caused by a cervical spinal cord injury.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

They need to have their eyes focused and trained on the road or in their mirrors. Are those safety drivers eyes front, hands on the wheel? Absolutely. So they have to have their hands on the wheel? They need to be hovering their hands over the wheel. They need to be scanning.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2012

I realized the extent to which my brain was trained to seek out stimulation, and how it wasn't so happy when it didn't get enough. I think it will take me a good long time to re-train it, because I certainly don't want to continue to feel like I need the amount of stimulation that I had been taking in.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Intellia founder and CEO, Saad Raja told me over email: “From a business model perspective, we are closest to what Turing is for software engineering and Superside is for design – in addition to all remote talent vetted and trained from emerging markets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). 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. The era of winging it in social media is over. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Secretary of Health and Human Service Nancy Brown Chief Executive Officer American Heart Association Under Brown’s leadership as CEO since 2008, the AHA has become a global authority on cardiovascular and brain health as well as overall well-being. AHA has invested more than $5.9

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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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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

CLIP is intended to explore how AI systems might learn to identify objects without close supervision by training on huge databases of image and text pairs. In this case, OpenAI used some 400 million image-text pairs scraped from the internet to train CLIP, which was unveiled in January.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI can be trained to mimic its programmer’s values, but it is unable to independently distinguish right from wrong or good from evil. Make appropriate training available. The cost of online training from providers like Coursera, Udemy, Udacity, and edX, ranges from approximately $10 to about $500 per course.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The email, which was sent to the Brain Women and Allies listserv, voiced frustration that managers were trying to get Gebru to retract a research paper. Timnit Gebru, one of Google’s top artificial intelligence researchers, says the company abruptly fired her yesterday. The full text was first published in Platformer. “A

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Foundation Models Defined A foundation model is an AI neural network trained on mountains of raw data, generally with unsupervised learning that can be adapted to accomplish a broad range of tasks. This chart highlights the exponential growth in training compute requirements for notable machine learning models since 2012.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Studies have shown that AI trained on sizable data can outperform physicians in several areas of medical diagnosis regarding brain tumors, eye disease, breast cancer, skin cancer and lung cancer. AI-powered diagnosis. I anticipate diagnostic AI will surpass all but the best doctors in the next 20 years.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Connecting the dots: What Corporate Training Can Learn from Formal Education. ” This core competency of organizing is vital to the success of individuals in the training field. As it is difficult to make the most of the training if the concern of the trainees lies elsewhere. Assigning Priority. Avoid Distractions.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Emotion is not just nice to have in fundraisingit actually helps our brains navigate alternatives and make decisions. Support training for storytelling. What are the three ingredients for telling a truly great story? Emotion hooks us in and makes us care. Use it liberallyits your donors love potion. What could this look like?

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Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

We must engage our children during their formative yearsideally starting in elementary school, while their worldview and brains are being developedand before resources get passed down. But what about combining leadership training with philanthropy for our younger set, who will find themselves with capacity to drive impact?

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