Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Finally, in the last post, I will also provide some resources for anyone who wants to contribute to this (or similar) research, in the form of both open problems and some thoughts on how these problems could be approached. Note that reinforcement learning refers to both a problem setting, and to a set of algorithms.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

To me, the main takeaway from this paper is that we should be careful with the assumption that the basic RL setting really captures everything that we intuitively consider to be part of the problem domain of sequential decision-making.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. Gen Z by the Numbers.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This guide provides an opinionated overview of recent work and open problems across areas like adversarial testing, model transparency, and theoretical approaches to AI alignment. Motivation: Two lines of recent work have looked for undesirable behaviors in LLMs, approaching the problem from two different angles: Andriushchenko et al.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

She spent the majority of the time talking about what went wrong, and she introduced an organizational learning theory called "double-loop learning" that resonated with me. Basically, the idea is that most organizations learn in a single loop that connects programs to results.

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