Automating financial decision making with deep reinforcement learning

Favorite Machine learning (ML) is routinely used in every sector to make predictions. But beyond simple predictions, making decisions is more complicated because non-optimal short-term decisions are sometimes preferred or even necessary to enable long-term, strategic goals. Optimizing policies to make sequential decisions toward a long-term objective can be learned

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 26, 2019

The 3 types of knowledge output from a project

Favorite All projects deliver not just a product, but knowledge as well, and there needs to be a clear understanding of what form that knowledge will take.  Part of any Knowledge Management policy therefore has to be a definition of the expected  knowledge output from project work.  This knowledge output

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Shared by Nick Milton November 26, 2019

Announcing Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

Favorite Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels, a new feature of Amazon Rekognition that enables customers to build their own specialized machine learning (ML) based image analysis capabilities to detect unique objects and scenes integral to their specific use case. For example, customers using Amazon Rekognition

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 25, 2019

Amazon Transcribe now supports speech-to-text in 31 languages

Favorite We recently announced that Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription for audio and video for 7 additional languages including Gulf Arabic, Swiss German, Hebrew, Japanese, Malay, Telugu, and Turkish languages.  Using Amazon Transcribe, customers can now take advantage of 31 supported languages for transcription use cases such as improving customer service, captioning and subtitling,

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 25, 2019

Should you use a single technology platform for KM?

Favorite Does KM need a single technology platform? More likely it needs several technologies. This blog post was prompted by a thread in Stan Garfield’s SIKM community asking what technology platform people use for KM. My immediate thought was that a single platform probably is not sufficient. However let’s look

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Shared by Nick Milton November 22, 2019