How knowledge is born – Observations, Insights, Lessons

Favorite Knowledge is born in a three-stage process of reflection on experience; from observations, through insights, to lessons. Experiencing, Learning, Reflecting, by Denise Krebs on Flickr I think most people accept that knowledge is born through reflection on experience. The three-stage process in which this happens is the core of

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Shared by Nick Milton April 17, 2023

Why advocacy and outreach matter

Favorite Despite a 25-year history, Open Source is still misunderstood or misrepresented. I still read about developers, a cohort you’d expect to know better, arguing whether software licensed with the GNU GPL is Open Source because “one cannot resell it” (hint: the GNU GPL doesn’t prevent users from selling software.)

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Shared by voicesofopensource April 14, 2023

Beyond automatic differentiation

Favorite Posted by Matthew Streeter, Software Engineer, Google Research Derivatives play a central role in optimization and machine learning. By locally approximating a training loss, derivatives guide an optimizer toward lower values of the loss. Automatic differentiation frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and JAX are an essential part of modern

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Shared by Google AI Technology April 14, 2023

How Accenture is using Amazon CodeWhisperer to improve developer productivity

Favorite Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI coding companion that helps improve developer productivity by generating code recommendations based on their comments in natural language and code in the integrated development environment (IDE). CodeWhisperer accelerates completion of coding tasks by reducing context-switches between the IDE and documentation or developer forums. With

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning April 13, 2023

Announcing New Tools for Building with Generative AI on AWS

Favorite The seeds of a machine learning (ML) paradigm shift have existed for decades, but with the ready availability of scalable compute capacity, a massive proliferation of data, and the rapid advancement of ML technologies, customers across industries are transforming their businesses. Just recently, generative AI applications like ChatGPT have

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning April 13, 2023

Salesforce: Why we sponsor OSI

Favorite This month, we’re pleased to spotlight one of our sponsors, Salesforce, and learn why  Open Source is important to their organization. Salesforce is a cloud-based software company with applications that help businesses manage customers in every step of the customer journey, from lead to loyalty. The service Salesforce provides

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Shared by voicesofopensource April 13, 2023

Robotic deep RL at scale: Sorting waste and recyclables with a fleet of robots

Favorite Posted by Sergey Levine, Research Scientist, and Alexander Herzog, Staff Research Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Reinforcement learning (RL) can enable robots to learn complex behaviors through trial-and-error interaction, getting better and better over time. Several of our prior works explored how RL can enable intricate robotic skills,

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Shared by Google AI Technology April 13, 2023