Optimizing the cost of training AWS DeepRacer reinforcement learning models

Favorite AWS DeepRacer is a cloud-based 3D racing simulator, an autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning, and a global racing league. Reinforcement learning (RL), an advanced machine learning (ML) technique, enables models to learn complex behaviors without labeled training data and make short-term decisions while optimizing for longer-term goals. But as

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning October 14, 2020

Using speaker diarization for streaming transcription with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Transcribe Medical

Favorite Conversational audio data that requires transcription, such as phone calls, doctor visits, and online meetings, often has multiple speakers. In these use cases, it’s important to accurately label the speaker and associate them to the audio content delivered. For example, you can distinguish between a doctor’s questions and a

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning October 14, 2020

The current NASA toolbox for KM

Favorite In 2016 NASA published their toolbox for KM. Here’s what is in it.  See NASA source page This post is an update to my previous post on the NASA toolbox, which is getting rather out of date!  NASA APPEL introduced their new organisation-wide HQ KM toolbox at the beginning

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Shared by Nick Milton October 8, 2020

Fernanda Viégas puts people at the heart of AI

Favorite When Fernanda Viégas was in college, it took three years with three different majors before she decided she wanted to study graphic design and art history. And even then, she couldn’t have imagined the job she has today: building artificial intelligence and machine learning with fairness and transparency in

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Shared by Google AI Technology October 7, 2020

The personal learning matrix

Favorite A personal learning matrix reminds people of the sources of knowledge available to them. The matrix shown above is inspired by a really interesting blog post entitled “how rocket scientists learn” by Yasmin Fodil from NASA. Yasmin points out that  Knowledge management is about the better application of collective

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Shared by Nick Milton October 7, 2020