Favorite “The thread through the labyrinth” is a metaphor for allowing others to follow our steps safely. This is what Knowledge can do. German cave diver holding line, by Hossam El-Hamalawi on Flickr When Theseus negotiated Daedelus’ labyrinth in order to kill the Minotaur, he left a thread behind him
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Shared by Nick Milton July 5, 2019
Favorite There are five key skills you need on a KM team, no matter what sort of organisation you are. Image from ROverhate (pixabay.com) via needpix Implementing Knowledge Management needs attention to many things – to People, Process and Technology, to Governance, Change Management, to Collecting knowledge and Connecting people,
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Shared by Nick Milton July 4, 2019
Favorite Remember the screech of the dial-up and plain-text websites? It was in that era that the Amazon.com website launched in the summer of 1995. Like the rest of the web, Amazon.com has gone through a digital experience makeover that includes slick web controls, rich media, multi-channel support, and intelligent
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 3, 2019
Favorite Amazon Transcribe is a fully-managed automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to applications. Depending on your use case, you may have domain-specific terminology that doesn’t transcribe properly (e.g. “EBITDA” or “myocardial infarction”). In this post, we will show you how
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 3, 2019
Favorite Listening to your Microsoft Word documents as audio is a great way to save time or to be productive on a long commute. You can easily convert an entire block of text into MP3 format with Amazon Polly. But you can vastly improve your listening experience with just a
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 3, 2019
Favorite Training and inference are crucial components of a machine learning (ML) development cycle. During the training phase, you teach a model to address a specific problem. Through this process, you obtain binary model files ready for use in production. For inference, you can choose among several framework-specific solutions for
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 2, 2019
Favorite In some settings, winning by eliminating mistakes is the best strategy Image from wikimedia commons Wimbledon fortnight has started in the UK – the two weeks of the year when the TV schedules are taken over by professional tennis. This reminded me of a post from the excellent Farnham Street
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Shared by Nick Milton July 2, 2019
Favorite Apache MXNet is an open-source deep learning software framework used to train and deploy deep neural networks. Data scientists and machine learning (ML) developers love MXNet due to its flexibility and efficiency when building deep learning models. Amazon SageMaker is committed to improving the customer experience for all ML frameworks and libraries, including
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 1, 2019
Favorite When you run predictions on large datasets, you may want to drop some input attributes before running the predictions. This is because those attributes don’t carry any signal or were not part of the dataset used to train your machine learning (ML) model. Similarly, it can be helpful to
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 1, 2019
Favorite So far, Knowledge Management has largely been a Big Company game, but this is changing. This is another conclusion from the Knoco Knowledge Management survey, and is neatly illustrated in the bar chart shown here. The survey was conducted in 2 waves – 204 and 2017, and received submissions
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Shared by Nick Milton July 1, 2019