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Gates Foundation gives millions to help persuade ultra-wealthy donors to give more of their billions

GeekWire

Bill and Melinda Gates at the University of Washington in 2017. In October 2020, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $5 million to the TED Foundation’s Audacious Project to “research and overcome barriers to large scale giving by ultra-high net worth donors.”. In 2017, ultra-wealthy American families donated just 1.2%

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Redfin CEO says strength of housing market ‘almost feels eerie’ amid economic and health crisis

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Redfin topped Wall Street estimates for the quarter , reporting $214 million in revenue, up 8%, and a net loss per share of $0.08. Redfin is investing in tech-enabled tools that aid the remote homebuying process, such as virtual tours, video appointments with agents, and more to help adjust for social distancing mandates.

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How Melinda French Gates’ fortune has ‘transformational potential’ to boost women’s equity

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Melinda French Gates speaking at the University of Washington in December 2017, with long-time computer science professor Ed Lazowska in the background. Experts see tremendous social and economic benefits if French Gates ramps up these efforts. One of her early programs to get computers into U.S. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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Pandemic spells uncertain future for bikes and scooters as mobility services confront new realities

GeekWire

Seattle pioneered dockless bike-share in the United States with its novel 2017 pilot. LimeBike, Spin, and Ofo bikes in Seattle in 2017. billion net loss for the first quarter of 2020 and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told investors gross bookings in major cities are down as much at 70%. A micro-mobility test lab. permanently.

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Generative AI: A paradigm shift in enterprise and startup opportunities

CIO Business Intelligence

How we got here The most notable enabling technologies in generative AI are deep learning, embeddings, transfer learning (all of which emerged in the early to mid-2000s), and neural net transformers (invented in 2017). The parameters of the neural net models are adjusted using the examples presented to the model in training.

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The major blind spot in Bill Gates’s pandemic prevention plan

Vox

What the designation really pinpointed, said Stevano, was people who did what she calls “social reproduction work.” Working-class Americans died at staggering rates during the pandemic at least partly because these least protected and compensated people were disproportionately responsible for holding the social fabric together.

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Data mining for B2B churn and loyalty management in India and South Asia

TM Forum

Does this person like to buy only after having interacted on social media with his/her friends? Whereas postpaid customers may be characterized by their affordability, high propensity to call ‘on-net’, i.e., to their family or friends from within their network of provider, a rich residential location, etc.

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