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

Yokoten – the Japanese approach to best practice sharing

Favorite How do Japanese organisations approach best pratice sharing? Let’s look at Yokoten Workers exchanging knowledge (genchi gembutsu)  Japan, exemplified by Toyota, has developed its own flavour of Knowledge Management.  Together with a local focus on knowledge development (Kaizen), knowledge documentation (A3) and the behaviours of Hansei we can add

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Shared by Nick Milton August 13, 2020

Yokoten – the Japanese approach to best practice sharing

Favorite How do Japanese organisations approach best pratice sharing? Let’s look at Yokoten Workers exchanging knowledge (genchi gembutsu)  Japan, exemplified by Toyota, has developed its own flavour of Knowledge Management.  Together with a local focus on knowledge development (Kaizen), knowledge documentation (A3) and the behaviours of Hansei we can add

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Shared by Nick Milton 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

Don’t lead the witness (the objectivity of the km professional)

Favorite Very often the Knowledge Management professional (especially the Knowledge Engineer) will get involved in the mechanics of Knowledge Capture. This is where they need to be fully objective, and avoid “leading the witness”.  Image from Wikimedia If you, as Knowledge Manager, are involved in a Knowledge Capture service, the purpose

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Shared by Nick Milton August 12, 2020

Securing Amazon Comprehend API calls with AWS PrivateLink

Favorite Amazon Comprehend now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so you can securely initiate API calls to Amazon Comprehend from within your VPC and avoid using the public internet. Amazon Comprehend is a fully managed natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 11, 2020

Amazon Forecast can now use Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to train forecasting models up to 2X faster with up to 30% higher accuracy

Favorite We’re excited to announce that Amazon Forecast can now use Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to train forecasting models up to 2X faster with up to 30% higher accuracy. CNN algorithms are a class of neural network-based machine learning (ML) algorithms that play a vital role in Amazon.com’s demand forecasting

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 11, 2020