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What a machine learning tool that turns Obama white can (and can’t) tell us about AI bias

The Verge

Facebook’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun became a flashpoint for these conversations after tweeting a response to the image saying that “ML systems are biased when data is biased,” and adding that this sort of bias is a far more serious problem “in a deployed product than in an academic paper.”

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94 Free or Low-Cost Tools and Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This a free tool from Google that allows you to easily create UTMs to track your website performance, such as referral traffic from social media campaigns and conversions from online ads. Tools like WordPress (website and blog content) and MailChimp (email marketing) are much easier to work with if users can make simple HTML edits.

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74 Free or Low-Cost Tools and Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Dulingo provides access to free online language learning tools. For nonprofit social media managers that work internationally, Dulingo’s design and gamification make it fun to learn the basics of a new language. Dulingo :: duolingo.com. Grammarly :: grammarly.com. Noisli :: noisli.com. Otter :: otter.ai.

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,&# a story telling tool. (And, had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it).

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Transform Your Communications & Collaboration With Slack

Saleforce Nonprofit

In addition, workflows help set up students for success with Slack and other learning tools. People’s Action’s volunteer leaders work as moderators of these channels to make sure that any volunteer that needed help received assistance as soon as possible to keep conversations with potential voters going.

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How startups should budget in uncertain times 

TechCrunch

Take online learning tools: Everybody needs online learning at the moment. When in-person reopens, probably some amount of learning will stay online since we all learned how to do it, but likely not 100%. My guiding principle at this time is surely familiar: Control burn until income streams are more predictable.

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Nvidia’s $40 billion Arm acquisition is about bringing AI down from the cloud

The Verge

But these are questions that will take years to resolve, and by bringing the conversation back to AI, Nvidia and Arm can focus on a topic that is shiny, exciting, and helpfully vague on the details. The benefits of this are straightforward: you get faster processing, greater security, and reduced power consumption.