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Asking better questions to create more equitable outcomes 

Candid

How do we know whether we’re asking the “right” questions, in the “right” way, when designing and evaluating programs? These questions can help design research and evaluations that are more inclusive when determining what is studied, how it is studied, and how the findings are used within nonprofit organizations and beyond.

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2023 will bring crisper methods for evaluating startup success

TechCrunch

But if 2022 was a year of paradigm-shifting dynamics, 2023 will be a year when we’ll determine the winners and the losers — and more importantly, when crisper methods for evaluating success will emerge. 2023 will bring crisper methods for evaluating startup success by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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Imagen Editor and EditBench: Advancing and evaluating text-guided image inpainting

Google Research AI blog

Multimodal models require diverse data to train properly, and TGIE editing can enable the generation and recombination of high-quality and scalable synthetic data that, perhaps most importantly, can provide methods to optimize the distribution of training data along any given axis. CogView2 ).

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The Flan Collection: Advancing open source methods for instruction tuning

Google Research AI blog

In “ The Flan Collection: Designing Data and Methods for Effective Instruction Tuning ”, we closely examine and release a newer and more extensive publicly available collection of tasks, templates, and methods for instruction tuning to advance the community’s ability to analyze and improve instruction-tuning methods.

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Evaluating speech synthesis in many languages with SQuId

Google Research AI blog

After developing a new model, one must evaluate whether the speech it generates is accurate and natural: the content must be relevant to the task, the pronunciation correct, the tone appropriate, and there should be no acoustic artifacts such as cracks or signal-correlated noise. This is the largest published effort of this type to date.

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Improving startup results through female leadership

TechCrunch

Teams made up of like-minded people from similar backgrounds are limited in their breadth of perspectives, and, as a result, they limit the potential of their companies. A key tenant of the Design Thinking and Lean Startup methods — which have served entrepreneurial ecosystems well — is to lead with action. Hiring to improve results.

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What to Do When Your Fundraising Methods Fall Flat

Get Fully Funded

It’s a horrible feeling when the tried-and-true fundraising methods that have worked in the past stop working. Even experienced fundraisers sometimes use fundraising methods that just don’t work for a particular organization or audience. Right now, we’re seeing lots of lackluster results from a variety of causes in a variety of areas.

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