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Favorite For a long time, it was only in science fiction that machines verbalized emotions. As of today, Amazon Polly is one step closer to changing that. As we work on Amazon Polly, we’re constantly seeking to improve the voices. We hope you’ll agree that today’s announcement of not only
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 31, 2019
Favorite I blogged yesterday about groupthink. Would you like to see this in action? The video below is a startling example of how people will agree with a group even when they know the answer is wrong. This is known as Conformity Bias, the our tendency to take cues from the
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Shared by Nick Milton July 31, 2019
Favorite KM is beset by cognitive biases such as Groupthink. Maybe the Devil’s Advocate role is needed to help combat this? Groupthink by Oscar Berg on Flickr The biggest impediments to learning in an organisation are mental impediments, driven by cognitive biases. These include the confirmation bias (where we only
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Favorite What makes KM unique? This post from the archives attempts to explain. Image by dayeonge from Pixabay Any management discipline needs to have a defined unique area of scope if it is to add value. It needs to be different enough from other disciplines, and distinct enough, that it
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Favorite The most valuable skill for the Knowledge Management professional is the skill of facilitation. This is one of the first skills a new KM team must learn. Photo by Nicholas Wang on Flickr Knowledge is created and used by people – it needs to be externalised an internalised by
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Favorite When Electronic Caregiver’s founder and CEO, Anthony Dohrmann, started the company a decade ago, he was reacting to a difficult situation faced by 100 million Americans and countless individuals globally: the challenge of managing health treatment for chronic diseases. “Patients are often confused about their care instructions and non-adherence
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Favorite Customers often ask us how to get started when they do not have a deep data science and machine learning (ML) background. At AWS, our goal is to put ML in the hands of every developer and data scientist. AWS Training and Certification has partnered with edX to help you get started
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Favorite Deep learning is changing the world. However, much of the foundation work, such as building containers, can slow you down. This post describes how you can build, train, and deploy fastai models into Amazon SageMaker training and hosting by using the Amazon SageMaker Python SDK and a PyTorch base
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Favorite There are two primary types of knowledge which we tend to manage – Know-How and Know-What. Of the two, Know-how is more the natural focus for KM. The Knowledge Management arena is a very confused place to be, and different people, different countries and different industries see Knowledge Management,
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Favorite This post is an analysis of a KM role description, taken from a recent job vacancy, identifying the core elements of a strategic KM leadership role. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC The job vacancy appeared last week on LinkedIn, and is for a Knowledge
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