Closing data gaps with Lacuna Fund

Favorite Machine learning has shown enormous promise for social good, whether in helping respond to global health pandemics or reach citizens before natural disasters hit. But even as machine learning technology becomes increasingly accessible, social innovators still face significant barriers in their efforts to use this technology to unlock new

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Shared by Google AI Technology July 23, 2020

Using AI to identify the aggressiveness of prostate cancer

Favorite Prostate cancer diagnoses are common, with 1 in 9 men developing prostate cancer in their lifetime. A cancer diagnosis relies on specialized doctors, called pathologists, looking at biological tissue samples under the microscope for signs of abnormality in the cells. The difficulty and subjectivity of pathology diagnoses led us

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Shared by Google AI Technology July 23, 2020

Free access to knowledge, or structured access to knowledge?

Favorite Here is another excellent article from Tom Davenport, one of the clearest writers on the topic of Knowledge Management, making the case for a structured “just-in-time” approach to the supply of knowledge.  Tom starts his article as follows: In the half-century since Peter Drucker coined the term “knowledge workers,”

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Shared by Nick Milton July 23, 2020

Translating presentation files with Amazon Translate

Favorite As solutions architects working in Brazil, we often translate technical content from English to other languages. Doing so manually takes a lot of time, especially when dealing with presentations—in contrast to plain text documents, their content is spread across various areas in multiple slides. To solve that, we wrote

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 22, 2020

Deploying TensorFlow OpenPose on AWS Inferentia-based Inf1 instances for significant price performance improvements

Favorite In this post you will compile an open-source TensorFlow version of OpenPose using AWS Neuron and fine tune its inference performance for AWS Inferentia based instances. You will set up a benchmarking environment, measure the image processing pipeline throughput, and quantify the price-performance improvements as compared to a GPU

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 22, 2020

Query drug adverse effects and recalls based on natural language using Amazon Comprehend Medical

Favorite In this post, we demonstrate how to use Amazon Comprehend Medical to extract medication names and medical conditions to monitor drug safety and adverse events. Amazon Comprehend Medical is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to easily extract relevant medical information from unstructured text. We query

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 21, 2020