Tech Republic: “In this step-by-step guide, you will learn how to easily blur your background in a Zoom call as well as how to set a background image. Let’s say you have a Zoom meeting, but your normal work-from-home space is occupied or worse, a mess. You have no time to clean it or find a neutral, privacy-maintaining space to set up, and panic sets in. Don’t worry — you have options built right into Zoom to hide the space behind you: background blurring. This easily toggleable option can keep your space private or render messy rooms indeterminably fuzzy, and it’s available in Zoom right now. In this guide, we’ll show you how to blur your Zoom background before a meeting while in a meeting as well as how to choose a background image…”
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Daily Archives: August 9, 2023
Heat-Related EMS Activation Surveillance Dashboard
“The Heat-Related EMS Activation Surveillance Dashboard, created in partnership between the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity and the DOT National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, uses nationally submitted Emergency Medical Services (EMS) data to track EMS responses to people experiencing heat-related emergencies in the pre-hospital setting. For more information regarding how to use… Continue Reading
Data Insecurity Laws
Stein, David, Data Insecurity Laws (July 27, 2023). __ Santa Clara High Tech. L.J. __ (Forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4523433– “By broad consensus, data security laws have failed to stem a rising tide of data breaches. Data security laws come in three forms: duties to protect data, duties to notify consumers after a breach, and… Continue Reading
Zoom Is Using You to Train AI. So Will Everyone Else
Rolling Stone: “Zoom, the virtual communications platform that millions use for remote work, is facing backlash over an updated policy allowing it to train their AI products on customer data pulled from meetings. But experts say this not an isolated case — it’s a sign of how big tech plans to harvest and leverage your… Continue Reading
Are Libraries the Future of Media?
Popula: “… public sentiment towards these two systems differs by a huge margin. Close to 80% of adult Americans think “libraries provide them with the resources they need,” according to a survey published by the Pew Research Center in 2016; findings published by Pew in 2017 showed that a whopping 78% of adults felt that… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve communications
Jeremy Singer-Vine, Data is Plural: Agam Shah et al. have compiled a corpus of key communications by the US Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee, which “controls the three tools of monetary policy — open market operations, the discount rate, and reserve requirements.” Gathered from the Fed’s website, the corpus includes all meeting minutes and… Continue Reading
AI in Education
Education Next [This is an extensive well documented guide – includes a section on The Importance of Well-Designed Prompts] – The leap into a new era of machine intelligence carries risks and challenges, but also plenty of promise. Over the last year, developers have released a dizzying array of AI tools that can generate text,… Continue Reading
Exit locations of every DC Metro station – 98 of them
About this Guide: “We’ve all been there: You exit a crowded Metro train, only to realize that the escalator is a few hundred feet down the platform. By the time you get there, you’re stuck in line behind a group of tourists. There’s a better way! If you plan ahead and choose your train car… Continue Reading
Google Free courses: IoT; Machine Learning; Data Science; Computer Science
1. Introduction to Generative AI https://lnkd.in/eXp8h7dY 2. Introduction to Large Language Models https://lnkd.in/eK7qQcJY 3. Introduction to Responsible AI https://lnkd.in/e-aX58Ky 4. Introduction to Image Generation https://lnkd.in/ewM_aXam 5. Encoder-Decoder Architecture https://lnkd.in/e3ZGHSfz 6. Attention Mechanism https://lnkd.in/ea9crZiR 7. Transformer Models and BERT Model https://lnkd.in/eM5Dhi4N 8. Create Image Captioning Models https://lnkd.in/eeBEJx_n 9. Introduction to Generative AI Studio https://lnkd.in/eGn8NUCD 10. Machine… Continue Reading
