The fastest driver in Formula 1

Favorite This blog post was co-authored, and includes an introduction, by Rob Smedley, Director of Data Systems at Formula 1 Formula 1 (F1) racing is the most complex sport in the world. It is the blended perfection of human and machine that create the winning formula. It is this blend

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 20, 2020

Using A/B testing to measure the efficacy of recommendations generated by Amazon Personalize

Favorite Machine learning (ML)-based recommender systems aren’t a new concept, but developing such a system can be a resource-intensive task—from data management during training and inference, to managing scalable real-time ML-based API endpoints. Amazon Personalize allows you to easily add sophisticated personalization capabilities to your applications by using the same

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 20, 2020

Amazon Personalize can now create up to 50% better recommendations for fast changing catalogs of new products and fresh content

Favorite Amazon Personalize now makes it easier to create personalized recommendations for fast-changing catalogs of books, movies, music, news articles, and more, improving recommendations by up to 50% (measured by click-through rate) with just a few clicks in the AWS console. Without needing to change any application code, Amazon Personalize

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 17, 2020

Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances featuring AWS Inferentia chips now available in five new Regions and with improved performance

Favorite Following strong customer demand, AWS has expanded the availability of Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances to five new Regions: US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland). Inf1 instances are powered by AWS Inferentia chips, which Amazon custom-designed to provide you with the lowest cost per inference

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 13, 2020

Accessing data sources from Amazon SageMaker R kernels

Favorite Amazon SageMaker notebooks now support R out-of-the-box, without needing you to manually install R kernels on the instances. Also, the notebooks come pre-installed with the reticulate library, which offers an R interface for the Amazon SageMaker Python SDK and enables you to invoke Python modules from within an R

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 12, 2020