The 10 myths of creativity

Favorite In his book “The myths of creativity” , David Burkus demystifies the creative process, and explodes what he calls the top ten myths about creativity, based on his research with highly creative individuals and firms. The ten myths are listed and described below, and David introduces two of them

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Shared by Nick Milton February 13, 2020

Lowering total cost of ownership for machine learning and increasing productivity with Amazon SageMaker

Favorite You have many choices for building, training, and deploying machine learning (ML) models. Weighing the financial considerations of different cloud solutions requires detailed analysis. You must consider the infrastructure, operational, and security costs for each step of the ML workflow, as well as the size and expertise of your

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 12, 2020

Do social media stifle knowledge sharing?

Favorite Do online social media drive a “spiral of silence” which can stifle proper debate?  It can, according to this techcrunch article, which points to this survey from Pew Research. Shhh by Catherine on Flickr I think everyone would agree that for knowledge to be shared effectively in organisations, people need

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Shared by Nick Milton February 12, 2020

Flagging suspicious healthcare claims with Amazon SageMaker

Favorite The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) estimates that healthcare fraud costs the nation approximately $68 billion annually—3% of the nation’s $2.26 trillion in healthcare spending. This is a conservative estimate; other estimates range as high as 10% of annual healthcare expenditure, or $230 billion. Healthcare fraud inevitably results

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 11, 2020

Capturing and validating alphanumeric identifiers in Amazon Lex

Favorite Enterprises often rely on unique identifiers to look up information on accounts or events. For example, airlines use confirmation codes to locate itineraries, and insurance companies use policy IDs to retrieve policy details. In customer support, these identifiers are the first level of information necessary to address customer requests.

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 7, 2020

Build a unique Brand Voice with Amazon Polly

Favorite AWS is pleased to announce a new feature in Amazon Polly called Brand Voice, a capability in which you can work with the Amazon Polly team of AI research scientists and linguists to build an exclusive, high-quality, Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voice that represents your brand’s persona. Brand Voice allows

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 5, 2020