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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I recently wrote a blog entry about LibreOffice (LO), the fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) that came after the acquisition of Sun (the old holder/maintainer of OOo) by Oracle. For the purposes of this blog entry, at this moment in time (early 2011,) LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org are the same.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Here’s a quick overview of both initiatives. The API is SOAP.

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Vergecast: the final tech antitrust report from Congress

The Verge

The Supreme Court is taking on Google and Oracle one last time. Oracle and Google’s Supreme Court showdown was a battle of metaphors. G Suite is now Google Workspace in a bid to merge Gmail, Chat, and Docs. Apple made ProtonMail add in-app purchases, even though it had been free for years. SPACs, explained.

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A successful path to data literacy and analytics maturity for all

Tableau

Nate Mayfield, vice president at Oracle and a contributing author of the Data Leadership Collaborative , says, "It’s my responsibility (and that of my other leaders) to ensure team members understand the impact their work has, which develops a sense of collective pride that we're all making a difference.". US47605621, MAY 2021.

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A successful path to data literacy and analytics maturity for all

Tableau

Nate Mayfield, vice president at Oracle and a contributing author of the Data Leadership Collaborative , says, "It’s my responsibility (and that of my other leaders) to ensure team members understand the impact their work has, which develops a sense of collective pride that we're all making a difference.". US47605621, MAY 2021.

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SHIFT relies on token-level features to de-bias Bias in Bios probes

The AI Alignment Forum

This doc primarily focuses on the v2 version of the Marks et al. An oracle probe trained on an unbiased training dataset, where gender is not correlated with profession, achieves an accuracy of 93%. Our oracle probe (i.e., For this specific seed, the de-biased probe achieved higher accuracy compared to the oracle probe.)

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Apple macOS 12 Monterey review: the best is yet to come

The Verge

Elsewhere, Apple seems to be trying to push Notes towards a similar vein to Google Docs. These things I’m not sure about — I already use Docs for the purpose Notes is moving towards here, and the former is still much more full-featured, not to mention more widely accessible outside of Apple’s ecosystem.

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