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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Knowing who visits your site might not seem like a design technique at first glance. How they use this technique : They anticipate the visitor’s emotional journey. 3) Bushfire Help.

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How machine learning can be used to identify microplastics

Fast Company Tech

When scientists collect samples from the environment to study microplastics, they usually want to know more about the chemical identities of the microplastic particles found in the samples. We use a machine learning technique called conformal prediction. However, microplastics are also found in the air.

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Crowdsourced data is not a substitute for real statistics

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Then they used spatial statistical techniques to show that the pattern of aggregated text messages predicted where the damaged buildings were concentrated.

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How mobile is bridging brick and mortar’s data gap

The Next Web

Smart marketers know that offline marketing techniques like in-store promotions, events, and free samples are powerful techniques for delighting customers and driving sales. The challenge? There’s limited data to prove it. Meanwhile, the Internet has spoiled us.

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Diablo II: Resurrected gets support for Nvidia DLSS, but there are some kinks to iron out

TechSpot

The most notable is support for Nvidia DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) tech on PC’s with compatible Nvidia graphics cards, which arrived in the new 2.3 DLSS is an AI rendering technique that uses Nvidia’s Tensor Core AI processors to produce higher quality visuals without a major performance penalty.

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Scientists show for the first time that it's possible to collect DNA from the air

TechSpot

Using existing techniques, the team checked the sample for DNA sequences and found mole-rat DNA. As part of a study recently published in the journal PeerJ, the scientists collected air from a room that had previously housed naked mole-rats.

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Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Algorithms for efficient deep learning

Google Research AI blog

In 2022, we focused on new techniques for infusing external knowledge by augmenting models via retrieved context; mixture of experts; and making transformers (which lie at the heart of most large ML models) more efficient. This technique has strong provable guarantees for linear models and scales seamlessly to large embedding models.

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