TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

For starters, it developed an open-source project, but today the startup announced an expanded beta of a new commercial offering and $35 million in Series B funding. Why AWS is building tiny AI race cars to teach machine learning. Streamlit launches open-source machine learning application development framework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I came across this one for Khmer Open Source Project. Here's the link to the draft of the master plan for implementing open source in Cambodia. I also emailed Dirk Slater to find out what he knew about this project: Its really interesting how Open Source is taking off because of localization issues.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. When asked, Heartex says that it doesn’t collect any customer data and open sources the core of its labeling platform for inspection.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2005

Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Plus, we recently spotted this article on the Open Source Africa site. Our human rights group is active all over the place right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. I'm embargoed from saying much more, but pretty soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. The goals for the Giving 2.0 3) Giving 2.0:

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

There are many challenges – how do you teach self-reflection and self-evaluation? How do you teach the ins and outs of the nonprofit sector? How do you get providers to invest time and energy in what is really a marginally profitable business? Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I What’s next?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

If it is a relatively new CMS (like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and others) they may not need to bring in a new developer – they may just be able to get a book, or buy a video to teach them how to use the web interface to create new regions and widgets. If “AmazingWebCreator&# is a platform like RubyonRails, Django, .NET,

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. DeepSeeks breakthroughs caused some angst, but its fresh thinking and openness will likely spur bigger and faster innovations from the worlds top AI companies by this time next year. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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DataRobot

JUNE 10, 2021

It was introduced in 1980 but open-sourced in 2007, which created its widespread use. This is accomplished using an open-source library such as RDKit. The post Teaching AI to Smell by Using DataRobot appeared first on DataRobot. SENTENCE represents smells as the target or labels that need to be predicted.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Maintain and develop our data deduplication (entity resolution) framework written in python and Java.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2010

I’ve combined my passion for teaching nonprofits effective social media practice with raising money on social networks to support disadvantaged Cambodia children and young people. From the beginning, I’ve opened sourced everything I’ve learned so you too could apply the lessons to your work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of free and open source software in environmentally sustainable computing. Sometime in September, NOSI will be releasing the new version of the primer on open source software for nonprofits. can transform the teaching and learning experience. Elluminate Live!

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2014

There are many organizations fueling the maker movement and teaching web literacy. free tools mozilla Open Source webmaker Communications' What makes even the most elaborate coding effort worthwhile is the content people share on the web and the communities people build around it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

at Benetech.org In my job as outreach coordinator for Martus , Benetech’s free and open source information management technology, I teach human rights workers in many countries how to secure their data. A Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi, Vijaya.T

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

In any event, I have a lot of other skills and knowledge besides databases and coding: skills and knowledge in teaching, in writing, in working with organizations, in facilitation, in religion and spiritual practices, and in working with people, that I want to use now. Perhaps I’m now more ready to wrestle those. Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Organizations have spent decades building complex datasets and pioneering different ways to teach systems to perform new tasks. Passive learning in this instance is teaching a system to perform a task by showing it videos or training it on the aforementioned datasets. It’s an exciting time for robotic learning.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week 's question comes from a writing teacher, and client, who wants to know: "What Tools Can I Use to Teach Classes Online?" NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. I actually didn't know, so I asked my Twitter network.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

The code editor is powered by a pared-down version of Visual Studio Code, but it’ll soon run a full extensible version of Microsoft’s open-source code editor in the browser that will remove the limitations of today’s StackBlitz editor. “It’s super unreliable,” said Simons. It’s a nightmare.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

a system that trains LLMs and the RAG ystem together, resulting in Contextual Language Models that are tuned for specific purposes for which they outperform leading commercial and open source models. The app already offered an English tutor that could teach and converse, but the conversations felt slow and unnatural.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The company made some early bets on the open source Envoy proxy and Istio service mesh, Both projects have grown to be leaders in this space, and the company has been a major contributor to both from the very beginning, which puts it in a good position to build commercial products on top of these projects.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Still, it’s one that is supported by Open Source, adopted by large nonprofit-serving businesses such as Oracle/NetSuite and Unit4, and creating an opening (and teaching tool) for even new-to-nonprofit technology solutions to understand basic service needs for nonprofits as supported by data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2005

Keep an eye on some future developments in Cambodia and blogging as the Open Forum 's Khmer Open Source expects to launch khmer language blogging software. The trainings were held in different Community Information Centers in the provinces.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. “By

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Someone suggested to him to look at federated learning as one way to “teach” its assistant to work with email. . “A perfect assistant would be able to read emails and know which actions to take, but there are privacy issues around how to make that work,” Uribe-Etxebarria said.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Posted by Wenhao Yu and Fei Xia, Research Scientists, Google Empowering end-users to interactively teach robots to perform novel tasks is a crucial capability for their successful integration into real-world applications. Specifically, we use an open-source implementation based on the MuJoCo MPC (MJPC).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

His new job was to open a subsidiary for a French open source tech startup and that required hiring developers on the ground. Bouhlel says the company has local teachers in every country — over 500 in number — and they teach students in over 12 languages. However, finding a sizable number in Tunis was tough. “At

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit. “itâ??s

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Care2

JUNE 14, 2013

They will listen and learn, teach and share, inspire and mobilize -- all to engage more volunteers in the critical task of building stronger communities.". "For a few days in June, thousands of people will come to Washington, D.C. Thousands of volunteers will convene in D.C. for this year''s NCVS.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Since most startups are not AI businesses, his post also evaluates “middle ground approaches” like prompt engineering, closed source approximation and building on top of open source solutions. Proper scoping and decomposition. Carefully manage and decouple dependencies. Invest in continuous deployment automation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

On another note, I got an email from Javier Solas (interviewed the Linux Chix on his staff last fall) from Open Institute who has been leading the Khmer OS project and building the educational technology plan for Cambodia letting me know of major project milestone: The Cambodian Education System Changes to Open Source Software and KhmerOS.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Teach yourself growth marketing: Which metrics really matter? Teach yourself growth marketing: Which metrics really matter? This will send you into orbit : Paul provides a lengthy look at which open source startups rocketed in 2022.

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