Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Aside from technical issues, the biggest problem is engagement. If someone is supposed to share their screen and is having a technical problem, make sure people have copies of the document and at minimum, you as the facilitator, so you can share your own screen. 6-Techniques for Virtual Brainstorming, Voting, Feedback, and Energizers.

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The AI Alignment Forum

APRIL 18, 2025

Published on April 18, 2025 2:39 PM GMT What if getting strong evidence of scheming isn't the end of your scheming problems, but merely the middle? So even if finding evidence that your model is scheming has no direct value, its pretty likely we still want to analyze techniques in terms of how often we catch the model (e.g.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

By analyzing this data, Satelytics can rapidly pinpoint problems like methane leaks with remarkable detail and deliver alerts within hours, minimizing costs and operational disruptions. Air Force, Varda Space Industries, and others, continue to transform testing and evaluation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

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DataRobot

DECEMBER 16, 2021

That’s why we’ve made it a point to use language agnostic techniques throughout the platform, so you’ll always have the full power of the platform behind you. Use DataRobot’s AutoML and AutoTS to tackle various data science problems such as classification, forecasting, and regression. Diverse Languages and Data Types.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We proposed a 2-hop spanner technique , called STAR , as an efficient and distributed graph building strategy, and showed how it significantly decreases the number of similarity computations in theory and practice, building much sparser graphs while producing high-quality graph learning or clustering outputs.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the needs section of a grant, you need to do three things to score high on a grant proposal: Eliminate flowery language, Include sources and citations, and Include a clear Problem Statement. What I see the most often in this section is that grant writers include a flowery narrative with a lot of information about problems.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Unfortunately, many founders or leaders skip creating one — which generally leads to fundraising frustrations and stalled services, among other problems. A good plan answers a number of who, what, when, where questions like these: What problem is your nonprofit trying to solve? Evaluation Plan. How much will it cost?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This ongoing evaluation not only keeps your project on track but also ensures you can demonstrate its value clearly and convincingly. Their feedback can highlight potential problems and offer innovative solutions that you may not have considered.

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2023

As you start to feel the priorities of your community evolving, here are four ways to evaluate and respond so your grantmaking organization stays relevant to your community’s changing needs. Define the problem: Identify the specific problem or issue you want to address through data analysis.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Architecture is, at its core, about problem-solving: balancing aesthetics, functional needs, and technical constraints to create effective buildings and environments. The most innovative firms in the industry expand this notion, solving pressing issues in new ways that build on or scale up existing techniques and technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Use Time Management Techniques.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This addresses a longstanding problem typically faced when two institutions (or even one institution working with multiple datasets) collaborate: normally, they have to transfer data and/or algorithms based on that data, in order to train systems or to conduct research. (On It covered more than just biometrics.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 30, 2023

The key to both is a deeper understanding of ML data — how to engineer training datasets that produce high quality models and test datasets that deliver accurate indicators of how close we are to solving the target problem. How do we solve this problem and enable quality-driven “data acquisition”?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

The nonprofit is using one or more social media tools consistently, but it is not strategic because it isn’t linked to a communications strategy, campaign, or program plan. Also, best practices on tools and techniques are part of the organizational skill set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Published on February 7, 2025 7:35 PM GMT TL;DR: If you are thinking of using interpretability to help with strategic deception, then there's likely a problem you need to solve first: how are intentional descriptions (like deception) related to algorithmic ones (like understanding the mechanisms models use)? What is the problem?

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OpenAI

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

We will need to develop new alignment techniques as our models become more powerful (and tests to understand when our current techniques are failing). Importantly, we think we often have to make progress on AI safety and capabilities together.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

We want to solve complex mathematical or scientific problems. One of the broad key challenges in artificial intelligence is to build systems that can perform multi-step reasoning, learning to break down complex problems into smaller tasks and combining solutions to those to address the larger problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. This is evaluation.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

From the beginning, this is what we set out to do: to make breakthroughs in AI, test that on games like Go and Atari, [and] apply that to real-world problems, to see if we can accelerate scientific breakthroughs and use those to benefit humanity.”. Image: DeepMind. Why protein folding is so difficult. Image: DeepMind.

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OpenAI

AUGUST 24, 2022

We are improving our AI systems’ ability to learn from human feedback and to assist humans at evaluating AI. Our goal is to build a sufficiently aligned AI system that can help us solve all other alignment problems. Using scientific experiments, we study how alignment techniques scale and where they will break.

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 29, 2023

) but along some projects I contribute to in the Data-Centric Community , I realized that many data scientists still haven’t fully grasped the full complexity of the problem, which inspired me to create this comprehensive tutorial. Also, on the topic of identifiability, the problem doesn’t get any easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers:Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. Data and information visualizations for advocacy, evaluation, social media, network analysis, operations, and more! To share techniques and low costs tools for data visualization that nearly any user can begin using quickly.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

The training primarily focuses on developing the individual’s communication skills, active listening techniques and adapting the communication styles according to different situations. LMS can solve this problem by providing training to any number of employees. Today, they are not just tools for uploading and managing courses.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

This does not hinder good performance when the training data is large and diverse and the evaluation is in-distribution. We also present a novel algorithmic prompting technique that enables general purpose language models to achieve strong generalization on arithmetic problems that are more difficult than those seen in the prompt.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

no potentially sensitive data) and evaluated performance on real, de-identified notes from inpatient and outpatient clinicians from different health systems. Adapting Protein Alignment Algorithms to Unstructured Clinical Text Evaluation of these models on the particular task of abbreviation expansion is difficult.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What’s the problem? They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions. Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks? What to do when a network is in trouble? How do networks learn?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Byteboard founders Sargun Kaur and Nikke Hardson-Hurley were working at Google when they recognized a fundamental problem with the way engineers were being hired. As Kaur put it, when an NBA team is evaluating a basketball player, the coaches don’t have him outline plays on a whiteboard in the locker room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.”

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations. Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques.

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DataRobot

JULY 21, 2022

Data scientists need to understand the business problem and the project scope to assess feasibility, set expectations, define metrics, and design project blueprints. Define the business problem. Investigate whether the business problem can be solved with machine learning and has sufficient business impact to warrant such an approach.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Pre-training on diverse datasets has proven to enable data-efficient fine-tuning for individual downstream tasks in natural language processing (NLP) and vision problems. However, running RL algorithms in the real world requires expensive active data collection. only data from highly suboptimal policies).

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2022

That’s a problem for features currently built into devices — but it’s also a bad sign for efforts to use light sensors for new applications in wearables, like monitoring blood pressure , says study author Jessica Ramella-Roman, an associate professor studying bioimaging sensors at Florida International University.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

NAS, a family of techniques on which Deci heavily relies, can help automatically discover low-cost, optimal models for a given problem. NAS, which is difficult to evaluate , can be expensive and time-consuming.) Geifman proposes neural architecture search (NAS) as a solution.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Slides in this deck Cover slide Problem slide part 1 Problem slide part 2 Solution slide part 1 Solution slide part 2 Value proposition slide User testimonials slide Traction slide Revenue slide Retention slide User profile slide Growth projection slide Vision slide The ask slide Contact slide Appendices cover slide Appendix 1: Why now?

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