Bringing your own R environment to Amazon SageMaker Studio

Favorite Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). With a single click, data scientists and developers can quickly spin up SageMaker Studio notebooks to explore datasets and build models. On October 27, 2020, Amazon released a custom images feature that allows you

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 25, 2020

Announcing the launch of Amazon Comprehend Events

Favorite Every day, financial organizations need to analyze news articles, SEC filings, and press releases, as well as track financial events such as bankruptcy announcements, changes in executive leadership at companies, and announcements of mergers and acquisitions. They want to accurately extract the key data points and associations among various

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Customizing your machine translation using Amazon Translate Active Custom Translation

Favorite When translating the English phrase “How are you?” to Spanish, would you prefer to use “¿Cómo estás?” or “¿Cómo está usted?” instead? Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we’re excited to introduce Active Custom Translation (ACT), a feature

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 24, 2020

Building natural conversation flows using context management in Amazon Lex

Favorite Understanding the direction and context of an ever-evolving conversation is beneficial to building natural, human-like conversational interfaces. Being able to classify utterances as the conversation develops requires managing context across multiple turns. Consider a caller who asks their financial planner for insights regarding their monthly expenses: “What were my

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Can there be such a thing as "too much collaboration"?

Favorite Let’s collaborate by Ron Mader on Flickr Collaboration is one of those words that is often taken as being overwhelmingly positive, and something everyone should do. But is it? With the exception of France, where a “collaborateur” is still a dirty word, the concept of collaboration is usually seen

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Shared by Nick Milton November 24, 2020