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Favorite Peter Drucker said that our task this century is to revolutionaise the productivity of the manual worker. Here’s how KM can help. Assembly Line, from Library and Archives Canada, via Flickr Peter Drucker famously said that ‘the most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the
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Shared by Nick Milton September 8, 2020
Favorite How many times do people miss knowledge because they don’t know it exists, or can’t find it? Image from wikimedia commonsattribution Dg-505, CC licence My guess is that this happens all the time. Someone creates a great knowledge resource, but others don’t know about it, and even if they
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Favorite It is tempting, when starting KM in your organisation, to set up a Knowledge Management community of practice as a way to demonstrate the value of communities. I suggest this may be a mistake. Of course knowledge management will need a community of practice, but there are three reasons
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Favorite Amazon Polly turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create voice-enabled applications. We’re excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asian Pacific (Tokyo), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (London) Regions. You can now synthesize over 14 NTTS voices in these
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning September 3, 2020
Favorite One the enduring challenges in Knowledge Management is defining effective metrics to measure its value. A promising metric which may fill the gap is the Frequency of Lost Knowledge (FOLK) and it’s partner the Cost of Lost Knowledge (COLK). Image from wikimedia commons In safety management, they talk about
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Favorite Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Neural machine translation is a form of language translation automation that uses deep learning models to deliver more accurate and natural-sounding translation than traditional statistical and rule-based translation algorithms. The translation service is
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Favorite Today, in partnership with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), we are announcing a National AI Research Institute for Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration. Google will provide $5 million in funding to support the Institute. We will also offer AI expertise, research collaborations, and Cloud support for Institute researchers and educators
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Shared by Google AI Technology September 2, 2020
Favorite How do Simple Rules help share or prompt knowledge in a complex world? Image from wikimedia commons Donald Sull and Kathleen Eisenhardt’s book “Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World” describes the development of what we might call heuristics, or “rules of thumb” as simple ways to
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Favorite We’re excited to announce the next AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge, in which developers interactively collaborate with AI using the new edit melody feature launching today! Chartbusters is a monthly challenge where you can use AWS DeepComposer to create original compositions on the console using machine learning techniques, compete to
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Favorite Amazon Textract now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so you can securely initiate API calls to Amazon Textract from within your VPC and avoid using the public internet. In this post, we show you how to access Amazon Textract APIs from within your
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