Favorite There have been many articles and blog posts (including here) listing “Top Success Factors for Communities of Practice“. Usually these are based on a combination of experience and theory. Here’s a different approach. Image from wikimedia commons As part of our global global Knowledge Management Surveys in 2014 and
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Shared by Nick Milton August 27, 2019
Favorite When Software Engineer Florian Thomas describes Deliveroo, he is talking about a rapidly growing, highly in-demand company. Everyone must eat, after all, and Deliveroo is, in his words, “on a mission to transform the way you order food.” Specifically, Deliveroo’s business is partnering with restaurants to bring customers their
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 22, 2019
Favorite AWS customers often choose to run machine learning (ML) inferences at the edge to minimize latency. In many of these situations, ML predictions must be run on a large number of inputs independently. For example, running an object detection model on each frame of a video. In these cases, parallelizing
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 21, 2019
Favorite We all know about the traditional lifecycle of Wikis. They start with a blaze of publicity, attract a dozen or so pages, then activity fades inexorably away. It doesn’t have to be like this! Try starting with a wikithon Euro stem cell wikithon, image from wikimedia commons The Wikithon
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Shared by Nick Milton August 21, 2019
Favorite When we have a lot of knowledge, we underestimate how hard it is to communicate this to people who don’t know. This is called the “Curse of Knowledge” – a cognitive bias that leads to people trying to convey knowledge in bullet points, or in fuzzy statements which are
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Shared by Nick Milton August 19, 2019
Favorite Spectral MD, Inc. is a clinical research stage medical device company that describes itself as “breaking the barriers of light to see deep inside the body.” Recently designated by the FDA as a “Breakthrough Device,” Spectral MD provides an impressive solution to wound care using cutting edge multispectral imaging
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 16, 2019
Favorite The AWS DeepRacer League is the world’s first global autonomous racing league, open to anyone. Developers of all skill levels can get hands-on with machine learning in a fun and exciting way, racing for prizes and glory at 21 events globally and online using the AWS DeepRacer console. The
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 15, 2019
Favorite Today, many companies use one-time passwords (OTP) to authenticate users. An application asks you for a password to proceed. This password is sent to you via text message to a registered phone number. You enter the password to authenticate. It is an easy and secure approach to verifying user
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 15, 2019
Favorite Innovation should be focused on problems first, ideas second, and should follow a structured process. Here’s an example from the mining sector Image of the De Beers AUV from Sonardyne.com A few years ago, my then colleague Ian Corbett published a really interesting case study entitled “Learning for the long view – A
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Shared by Nick Milton August 15, 2019
Favorite From the AFAC lesson management forum last week, this video below from David Oberhettinger, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, talking about lesson learning in their human and robotic space exploration program David makes some interesting points, such as the need to dedicate individuals for lessons capture (although NASA allows engineers
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Shared by Nick Milton August 14, 2019