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In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

Fast Company Tech

In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource. The site of a water pipeline project by the company Recharge through Lee County into Williamson County is pictured on March 28.

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5 Methods for Avoiding Procrastination for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I found this wonderful comic on Mashable “ The Field Guide to Procrastination ” that identifies 12 different methods for work avoidance or procrastination, defined in Wikipedia as “ putting off tasks for a later date.” The method can be combined with these others and is very simple. What is your method?

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Asking better questions to create more equitable outcomes 

Candid

Asking better questions that center the needs of those most affected The questions are designed to be applied to any research and evaluation method or design, at any point in the process. For example: asking “Are community members and stakeholders provided resources to participate in the project, such as training or compensation?”

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Detecting novel systemic biomarkers in external eye photos

Google Research AI blog

It was previously unknown that external eye photos contained signals for these conditions. This exciting finding suggested the potential to reduce the need for specialized equipment since such photos can be captured using smartphones and other consumer devices. A model generating predictions for an external eye photo.

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Facebook’s next big AI project is training its machines on users’ public videos

The Verge

And while Facebook has already trained machine vision models on billions of images collected from Instagram, it hasn’t previously announced projects of similar ambition for video understanding. The project, titled Learning from Videos , is also part of Facebook’s “broader efforts toward building machines that learn like humans do.”.

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Treat Your Social Media Measurement Like A 6th Grader’s Science Fair Project!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by the Consortium. Note from Beth: Both my kids have worked on projects for their school’s science fair. They follow the scientific method which includes coming up with hypothesis question, collecting data, analyzing results, and getting insight to their questions.

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3 common fundraising mistakes nonprofits make—and how to avoid them 

Candid

Despite the importance of raising money well, the majority of small to midsize nonprofits use suboptimal strategies—methods that are expensive, time-consuming, and yield only minimal returns on a lot of hard work. Marketing experts call this TMM: Too Many Messages, inundating the audience with too many choices.