Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Benetech’s Bookshare library is living proof that real, transformative change happens through partnerships and by helping people unleash their talents and energies. The Bookshare breakthrough was to put our users in charge of the collection; we created a crowd-sourced library built by and for the people it serves. copyright law.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

These features include a Prompt Builder feature, which allows users to create their own directives for the AI assistant, and a Prompt Library, which includes suggested prompts from Glean, as well ones that a company has shared in its own prompt library. Blackbird.AI has raised more than $20 million in venture capital so far.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

Before the American Library Association’s Annual Conference , I had the privilege of taking a tour of the shoe retailer’s main office to see what libraries and nonprofits could learn from the company. The tour was organized by a group of library consultants from Kixal, Anneal, and Clarion Collaborative.

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Machine Learning Mastery

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Last Updated on September 26, 2023 When you are working on a data science project, the data is often tabular structured. You can also use the famous library dplyr instead to benefit from its rich toolset. You can use the built-in data table to handle such data in R.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Bookshare, Benetech’s pioneering digital library for people with print disabilities, celebrated its 10th birthday last night with a terrific party that was attended by many of our long-time friends and supporters. Our lower cost model made it practical to invert the power structure. I can feel it all over, it’s a hit!” said Stevie.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

It analyzes themes, narrative structures, and emotional resonance across media formats. Digital readers: refer to your Kindle library , your read shelf on Goodreads , listen history on Audible, timeline on Libby , or any doc or spreadsheet you maintain with your favorites. This isnt just another recommendation engine.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Basics of Meta Ad Library Meta has 3 versions of its Ad Library, each with its own caveats. Ad Library is a user interface that lets you search ALL the ads currently running and archived (up to 5 years) in the past across Meta. The Easy Steps Pull up ad library view. The caveat is that the data can’t be exported.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Comprehensive Training Library: The LMS allows manufacturers to compile a wide range of safety training resources, including videos, manuals, and interactive courses, in one easily accessible location. This ensures employees have access to the most current and relevant safety information.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Like a nested structure. Guarín-Zapata’s mental model is commonly known as directory structure, the hierarchical system of folders that modern computer operating systems use to arrange files. About halfway through a recent nine-month research project, he’d built up so many files that he gave up on keeping them all structured. “I

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities. The Bookshare breakthrough put our users in charge of the collection with a crowd-sourced library built by—and for—the people it serves. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This post originally appeared at TechSoup for Libraries. GCCE and the New Mexico State Library are partners in Fast-Forward New Mexico (FFNM), a BTOP-funded project. Among other things, the project provides for 64 hours of free Internet training in 17 libraries around the state.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A grantwriting workshop and the continuation of arts shows in the local library are examples. Systemic inequity does entrap populations into situations out of their control; however, we can start the healthy process of giving them the tools to build their lives better by changing the structure, and it starts with us, as an organization.

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Candid

MARCH 9, 2022

Q&A with a Toledo-based library on building community capacity. Toledo-Lucas County Public Library (TLCPL) has been part of Candid’s Funding Information Network since 1980, providing local nonprofits and the public with access to Candid’s resources, including Foundation Directory, for free.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2012

As an example, in 2008, we accounted for $1,772,761 in capitalization of a major website upgrade for our Bookshare library. Over 80% of our revenues are structured as “pay-as-you-go” contracts, rather than grants. Department of Education that enables us to provide the Bookshare library services for free to all qualifying U.S.

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The MatrixFiles

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This works like a personal library that you can query against. It provides suggestions on format and structure for better readability, while remaining professional and helpful in tone. This is going to allow our team to amass our own prompt library without manually retyping specific prompts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

I felt first hand the technological, structural, and emotional challenges of delivering an engaging six hour lesson to groups of 30-40 people. The presentation in Bayamon was attended by Igri Enriquez, director of the Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Impaired. This photo was taken in a library in San Juan.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

2 SSD with your PS5 console requires effective heat dissipation with a cooling structure, such as a heatsink,” explains Sony. Different versions will now appear separately in the home screen and game library, and each game’s title will also now include whether it’s PS4 or PS5. 2 SSD in a PS5, though. Using an M.2 Image: Samsung.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, there are many just in the area of open source foundations: nonprofit organizations structured as social enterprises writing open source software for the benefit of society, with many examples in each of the five claimed areas. The application is against the public interest.

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InfoWorld

JUNE 28, 2024

We also have an intro to the one library Python users lean on for faster math at scale—and do check out all the breezy updates in Python Polars 1.0.0-rc.1.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2009

It's structured as an unconference, where the 300 or so folks showing up design the conference program of roughly 70 sessions in about an hour the first night. My understanding is that this was very important to the University of Michigan, one of the key libraries at the center of the Google Book project.

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The Verge

AUGUST 2, 2021

per month for access to the company’s full library (a selection of over 1,500 e-books). It’s faced lawsuits from authors claiming that the service altered their compensation structures and negatively impacted their royalties. There are two subscription tiers. Enrolled students can pay $9.99 for four months.

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Towards Data Science

MAY 11, 2023

Principle #2: Represent data with generic data structures “In DOP, data is represented with generic data structures, such as maps (or dictionaries) and arrays (or lists).” — Yehonathan Sharvit In Python, our built-in options for generic data structures are dict , list , and tuple.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

How to Stream and Apply Real-Time Prediction Models on High-Throughput Time-Series Data Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash Most of the stream processing libraries are not python friendly while the majority of machine learning and data mining libraries are python based. This design enables the re-reading of old messages.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

per month for unlimited access to the Knowable library. “Every [online learning company] today is very focused on the idea that you need to stare at a screen to learn in a structured way,” Shaeffer said. When the company launched last year , it charged users on a per-class basis. The Knowable team.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Designed to assist and support an organization (and most commonly hospitals, museums, libraries, and arts organizations), these groups historically focus on raising funds, sometimes manage the volunteer corps, and nearly always maintain their own governance system. Lessons from the Field.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Build clean nested data models for use in data engineering pipelines Photo by Didssph on Unsplash Introduction Pydantic is an incredibly powerful library for data modeling and validation that should become a standard part of your data pipelines. Pydantic type-hints are much stronger and can be much more customized than standard library ones.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What happens when AI has even more vast libraries and generations of human learning to draw from? ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. This seems to be another slightly gray area. Is there anything new under the sun? ML algorithms identify patterns and make predictions based on historical data.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In addition, we discovered insights for GNN models from their performance across thousands of graphs with varying structure (shown below). Furthermore, to bring some of these many advances to the broader community, we had three releases of our flagship modeling library for building graph neural networks in TensorFlow (TF-GNN).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

So essentially, what we’re doing is we’re building a billing metering and control structure for API-first companies,” company co-founder Behailu Tekletsadi said. You can also set it up using the Archetype component library for an external customer. “If

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Crowdbotics , a software development platform with a library of prebuilt app architectures, today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B round led by NEA with participation from Homebrew, JSV, Harrison Metal and Cooley. ” There might be a bit of hyperbole there.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A simple recency- and user-segmented structure for an e-commerce store can be something like: Last 30-day visitors. With this structure, you’ll want to exclude the audiences in each of the campaigns so that there isn’t any overlap. Last 30-day adds to cart. Last 90-day visitors. Last 90-day adds to cart.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

It used to be that you needed to enroll at a local school or spend hours in the library to learn new skills. Online courses are professionally structured and guided opportunities that simultaneously provide flexibility and convenience for students. For instance, some people learn better when they have a guided and structured course.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

It is a shorthand to quickly access services, libraries, and other functions. Oracle is not asserting that they are verbatim the same, but rather that the “structure, sequence, and organization” of the APIs are so similar as to violate copyright law. An API is not exactly a dictionary, but it’s close enough to one that Oracle v.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

How is your team structured? Arbisoft is structured as a network of independent, cross-functional teams. Among the many books that have shaped my thinking on organizational structures, one of the most important is Frédéric Laloux’s “Reinventing Organizations.” What range of services do you provide?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 18, 2013

One strategy we’ve found useful is to to create clean, well-structured landing pages for keywords you’re targeting (e.g. Improving your organic search ranking is an obvious choice with huge payoffs — we currently get an average of 500 new signups per month with an 8 percent conversion rate. Image credit: Thinkstock.

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The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

With Education Edition , Microsoft created a more formal structure, with pre-made lessons covering everything from chemistry and coding to giving students the opportunity to explore the International Space Station. It’s a game where you can do everything from build a library that houses censored journalism to attend a virtual rock concert.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

There is still a surprising disconnect between AI technology like natural language processing and structured data. For the most part, AI advances are still pretty divorced from stuff like spreadsheets and log files and all these other more quantitative, structured data — including IoT data.

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