AI helps protect Australian wildlife in fire-affected areas

Favorite Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from Darren Grover, Head of Healthy Land and Seascapes at the World Wide Fund For Nature Australia. Over the next six months, more than 600 sensor cameras will be deployed in bushfire-affected areas across Australia, monitoring and evaluating the surviving wildlife populations. This

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Shared by Google AI Technology December 15, 2020

KM accountabilities within projects and programmes.

Favorite  In a project based organisation, project managers bear much of the accountability for KM within the projects.  There are two dimensions to KM within a project based organisation. These are KM within individual projects, and KM across and between the projects. Any project based organisation needs to consider both

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Shared by Nick Milton December 15, 2020

Loss Aversion, and the dis-incentives for KM-based change

Favorite The risk of loss of the status quo can be a powerful disincentive for change, and can be a powerful factor working against knowledge management implementation. There is a very apt quote from Machiavelli (The Prince, 1532), which applies to Knowledge Management as it does to any change initiative:

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Shared by Nick Milton December 14, 2020

Exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and operationalizing your data flow into your ML pipeline with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler

Favorite According to The State of Data Science 2020 survey, data management, exploratory data analysis (EDA), feature selection, and feature engineering accounts for more than 66% of a data scientist’s time (see the following diagram). The same survey highlights that the top three biggest roadblocks to deploying a model in

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning December 12, 2020

Identify bottlenecks, improve resource utilization, and reduce ML training costs with the deep profiling feature in Amazon SageMaker Debugger

Favorite Machine learning (ML) has shown great promise across domains such as predictive analysis, speech processing, image recognition, recommendation systems, bioinformatics, and more. Training ML models is a time- and compute-intensive process, requiring multiple training runs with different hyperparameters before a model yields acceptable accuracy. CPU- and GPU-based distributed training

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning December 10, 2020

Making sense of your health data with Amazon HealthLake

Favorite We’re excited to announce Amazon HealthLake, a new HIPAA-eligible service for healthcare providers, health insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies to securely store, transform, query, analyze, and share health data in the cloud, at petabyte scale. HealthLake uses machine learning (ML) models trained to automatically understand and extract meaningful medical

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning December 10, 2020