3 types of Tacit Knowledge

Favorite In an interesting New Scientist article, Harry Collins (author of “Tacit and Explicit knowledge“) describes three types of Tacit Knowledge.  Image from wikimedia commons We know about the concept of tacit knowledge, which originally was described as knowledge which cannot be expresses (although often nowadays people use the term for knowledge

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Shared by Nick Milton July 30, 2020

Simplifying application onboarding with Amazon CodeGuru Profiler

Favorite Amazon CodeGuru Profiler provides recommendations to help you continuously fine-tune your application’s performance. It does this by collecting runtime performance data from your live applications. It looks for your most expensive lines of code continuously and provides intelligent recommendations. This helps you more easily understand your applications’ runtime behavior

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 29, 2020

The essential point of being a knowledge worker

Favorite A blog post appeared in the Huffington Post a few years ago entitled “you are more than a knowledge worker“, which, in my view, completely missed the essential point of knowledge work.  Carmen Iannacone: Hello I’m a knowledge worker. By Michael Edson on Flickr The basic premise on which the

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Shared by Nick Milton July 29, 2020

Internal competition – the KM-killer

Favorite If Knowledge Management is like gardening and the knowledge manager is like a gardener (see here to understand the metaphor), then Internal competition is like a late frost that kills all your green shoots.  Frosted by Lauryn on Flickr There is no point in planting the seeds of Knowledge

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Shared by Nick Milton July 28, 2020

Processing PDF documents with a human loop using Amazon Textract and Amazon Augmented AI

Favorite Businesses across many industries, including financial, medical, legal, and real estate, process a large number of documents for different business operations. Healthcare and life science organizations, for example, need to access data within medical records and forms to fulfill medical claims and streamline administrative processes. Amazon Textract is a

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 25, 2020

Enhancing your chatbot experience with web browsing

Favorite Chatbots are popping up everywhere. They are qualifying leads, assisting with sales, and automating customer service. However, conversational chatbot experiences have been limited to the space available within the chatbot window. What if these web-based chatbots could provide an interactive experience that expanded beyond the chat window to include

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 25, 2020

Setting up human review of your NLP-based entity recognition models with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon A2I

Favorite Organizations across industries have a lot of unstructured data that you can evaluate to get entity-based insights. You may also want to add your own entity types unique to your business, like proprietary part codes or industry-specific terms. To create a natural language processing (NLP)-based model, you need to

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 24, 2020