Favorite The race is on! Start your engines! The AWS DeepRacer Scholarship Challenge from Udacity is now open for enrollment. As mentioned in our previous post, the AWS DeepRacer Scholarship Challenge program introduces you—no matter what your developer skill levels are—to essential machine learning (ML) concepts in a fun and

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 2, 2019

Favorite We are excited to announce the launch of two new sample projects: “Build a worker safety system” and “Who drinks the most coffee?” for AWS DeepLens. These sample projects provide guided instructions on how to use computer vision to build a complete machine learning application on AWS. The applications

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 2, 2019

Favorite Amazon Elastic Inference (EI) is a new service launched at re:Invent 2018. Elastic Inference reduces the cost of running deep learning inference by up to 75% compared to using standalone GPU instances. Elastic Inference lets you attach accelerators to any Amazon SageMaker or Amazon EC2 instance type and run inference

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 31, 2019

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 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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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 26, 2019

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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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 26, 2019

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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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 26, 2019

Favorite Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth helps you build highly accurate training datasets for machine learning. It offers easy access to public and private human labelers, and provides them with built-in workflows and interfaces for common labeling tasks. Ground Truth can lower your labeling costs by up to 70% using automatic

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 24, 2019

Favorite When CEO Josh Churlik co-founded Well Data Labs in 2014, he was acutely aware of a bizarre dichotomy in his industry: For oil and gas companies, “downhole” innovation (that is, what happens underground) far exceeds the pace of data and analysis innovation. The data systems used then were relics

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 20, 2019

Favorite The growth of artificial intelligence could create 58 million net new jobs in the next few years, states the World Economic Forum [1]. Yet, according to the Tencent Research Institute, it’s estimated that currently there are 300,000 AI engineers worldwide, but millions are needed [2]. As you can tell,

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 18, 2019