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How America is betraying the hungry children of Africa

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

food aid played a big role in the destruction of Somalia couple of decades ago (helping lead to the continuing problems of today). A book I read that made a big impression was "The Road to Hell" by Michael Maren, who described how U.S.

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Pangea to unlock diaspora remittances as funding source for African startups

TechCrunch

All the aforementioned startups are founded in Kenya, but others from Ethiopia and Somalia will be supported during the pilot phase, with plans to scale to five more countries including Rwanda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe over the next one year. Fintechs in Africa continue to overshadow all other startups in funding gained.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I recently read an excellent book called "The Road to Hell" on the impact of aid, mainly food aid, on destabilizing Somalia. The incentives mean that some groups exaggerate the mine problem by overstating the challenges. Other commentators have talked about the distortions of foreign aid on countries.

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The AI oracle of Delphi uses the wisdom of Reddit to offer dubious moral advice

The Verge

It has clear biases, telling you that America is “ good ” and that Somalia is “ dangerous ”; and it’s amenable to special pleading, noting that eating babies is “okay” as long as you are “really, really hungry.” Ask Delphi’s problems stem from how it was created. Which, yes, are pretty huge problems.

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On Tragedy: A Note from Nonprofit Hub

NonProfit Hub

Abroad, recent bombings in Somalia killed over 300. At Nonprofit Hub, we believe that empowering others to solve the world’s grandest problems is one of the most noble things we can do, and we try to do it every single day. Before that, there were countless shootings, bombings, and arbitrary violence from coast to coast.

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On Tragedy: A Note from Nonprofit Hub

NonProfit Hub

Abroad, recent bombings in Somalia killed over 300. At Nonprofit Hub, we believe that empowering others to solve the world’s grandest problems is one of the most noble things we can do, and we try to do it every single day. Before that, there were countless shootings, bombings, and arbitrary violence from coast to coast.

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Using GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4 to Apply Text-defined Data Quality Checks on Humanitarian Datasets

Towards Data Science

So assuming one category per dataset might not be the best way to frame the problem, datasets are reused across categories. The framing of the problem was not ideal, for example, assuming a dataset can only have one category. In about half the cases where GPT-4 was incorrect, the second-place category it predicted was correct.

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