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How machine learning can be used to identify microplastics

Fast Company Tech

The width of a human hair, for comparison, ranges from 20 to 200 micrometers. Testing the tool To run our conformal prediction, my team used libraries of microplastic spectra from the Rochman Lab at the University of Toronto as the calibration set. Most scientific studies focus on microplastics in water.

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WordPress vs. Drupal … fight!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I figured that with the release of Drupal 7, this would be a great time to do a comparison of the two. Complex, document-heavy library sites, or sites that need document management. As a user and developer of WordPress since 1.x x something, and a developer and user of Drupal since 4.7, eCommerce sites.

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Amazon Music adds podcasts at no extra cost in major markets

TechSpot

Amazon’s new podcast library is much smaller than the competition’s at just north of 70,000 titles. In comparison, Apple has over a million podcasts on offer and Spotify has more than 1.5. Amazon on Wednesday announced it has added podcasts to Amazon Music across all tiers at no additional cost.

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Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems

Robert Weiner

The guide presents detailed comparisons of 33 donor databases that cost less than $4,250 in the first year. Some of the solutions they reviewed are available discounted our donated for nonprofits and public libraries via TechSoup Stock including: eTapestry , Telosa products, and GiftWorks. The guide is available for free here.

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Blackbaud vs. Salesforce: A Full Comparison for Nonprofits

DNL OmniMedia

We’ve thought through the pros and cons of both providers to offer a full comparison that will help you as you shop for the right software for your mission. How-To Documentation : Peruse this library of articles and videos to stay up to date on the latest Blackbaud news and learn best practices.

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Visual Blocks for ML: Accelerating machine learning prototyping with interactive tools

Google Research AI blog

We demonstrate how this platform enables a better model evaluation experience through interactive characterization and visualization of ML model performance and interactive data augmentation and comparison. Side-by-side comparison of multiple models and inspection of their outputs at different stages of the pipeline.

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With iOS 14, Apple is finally letting the iPhone home screen get complicated

The Verge

Widgets, hideable pages, App Library, and App Clips: a lot of new concepts for one update Eight years ago, I wrote a piece bemoaning the fact that the iPhone’s home screen was too restrictive and boring. There will be a new section called the “App Library” over to the side, but you are free to pay it no mind. App Library.

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