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Will Your Organization Be a Case Study for Innovation—or Irrelevance?

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Its a bold questionbut its the one association leaders must ask themselves today: Are we writing our own case study in innovation, or are we inching toward irrelevance while clinging to yesterdays strategies? Be the Case Study Others Want to Read What makes an organization a case study in innovation? The common denominator?

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New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths

Ars Technica

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a gravitational lens that magnifies the star it's orbiting, causing it to brighten briefly.

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Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets

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Study after study has shown that minority drivers are ticketed at a higher rate, and data from speed cameras suggests that it's not because they commit traffic violations more frequently. It's no secret that "driving while black" is a real phenomenon. But this leaves open the question of why.

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New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don’t yet live up to their billing

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The research serves as an instructive case study on the mathematical limitations of SR models, despite sometimes grandiose marketing claims from AI vendors. That's the finding of eye-opening preprint research into simulated reasoning (SR) models, initially listed in March and updated in April, that mostly fell under the news radar.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. You’ll see case studies of other nonprofits who have taken similar steps.

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What Americans Think About Nonprofits, Per New Study

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What Americans Think About Philanthropy and Nonprofits,” a new study from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, polled about 1,300 Americans over the summer of 2022 to learn more about how the American public perceives philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.

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New study accuses LM Arena of gaming its popular AI benchmark

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However, a new study claims this popular AI ranking platform is rife with unfair practices, favoring large companies that just so happen to rank near the top of the index. The site's operators, however, say the study draws the wrong conclusions. LM Arena was created in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley.

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