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Is your organization creating bad leaders?

Fast Company Tech

Its natural to assume the cause is born of an individual failurethe leader lacks competence, their boss didnt prepare or train them well, they dont care about how others experience them. Bad organization design is not just a structural flaw; it is a leadership hazard. And many of these reasons certainly hold true.

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How machine learning can be used to identify microplastics

Fast Company Tech

Microplasticsa global problem The term plastic refers to a wide variety of artificially created polymers. Many plastic polymers have similar structures, so two different polymers can have similar spectra. It does not require the user of the machine learning algorithm to have any detailed knowledge of the algorithm or its training data.

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Strong boards make strong nonprofits: What you need to know

Candid

That’s why setting up the board’s structures and bylaws with care is one of the most important things a nonprofit founder can do. The board agreement is signed by board members and spells out their responsibilities, while the bylaws lay out the composition, structure, and rules under which the board operates. Or is doing too much?

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AI for good: How you can help Candid Labs empower nonprofits 

Candid

While AI evolves, rising training costs are limiting AI development to a few companies. That’s why we created Candid Labs , a destination where our users can discover the breakthrough technology Candid is developing to support those working to solve the biggest problems in society.

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Overqualified and underchallenged? Here’s how to make it work

Fast Company Tech

Listen carefully as you’ll hear problems you’re uniquely positioned to solve. Instead of generic training, allow employees to direct their own professional growth. Some overqualified employees feel constrained by rigid structures. Start by identifying colleagues in different teams whose work interests you.

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Top 12 Features Membership Organizations & Associations Should Look for in a CRM

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In many organizations, training your staff on how to use software can be a drain on resources. In fact, it’s estimated that ineffective training can cost organizations $13.5 While this can make it an invaluable management tool, it can also present a big problem. It could also have serious legal problems. Easy To Learn.

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Retrieval-augmented visual-language pre-training

Google Research AI blog

Posted by Ziniu Hu, Student Researcher, and Alireza Fathi, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception Team Large-scale models, such as T5 , GPT-3 , PaLM , Flamingo and PaLI , have demonstrated the ability to store substantial amounts of knowledge when scaled to tens of billions of parameters and trained on large text and image datasets.

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