Winners of AWS Machine Learning Research Awards announced

Favorite The AWS Machine Learning Research Awards (MLRA) provides unrestricted cash funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academics to advance the frontiers of machine learning (ML) and its applications. MLRA is pleased to announce winners for its 2019 Q2/Q3 call-for-proposal cycles: Mohit Bansal, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Auto-Adversarial

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 19, 2020

Are the legs on the KM table getting less wobbly?

Favorite A recurrent theme on this blog is to address “the 4 legs on the Knowledge Management table” – the four enabling elements of the Knowledge Management Framework (and indeed of any management framework) – roles, processes, technology and governance. In a 2015 blog post entitled “the wobbliest legs on

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Shared by Nick Milton February 19, 2020

How to sell KM – what we can learn from the Wolf of Wall Street

Favorite The knowledge manager, seeking to lead the change to a Knowledge Management culture in their own organisation, needs to know how to sell their product.  Image from wikimedia commons As a Knowledge Manager, you are asking people to pay attention to something (knowledge) which previously has been ignored. You

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Shared by Nick Milton February 17, 2020

Why a no-blame culture needs no-blame processes

Favorite We hear a lot about the importance of a “no-blame culture” in Lesson-learning, but a no-blame culture won’t work unless you have no-blame processes as well.  Image from wikimedia commons Learning lessons in an organisation requires a culture of openness, so that people are willing to explore honestly and

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Shared by Nick Milton February 14, 2020

The 10 myths of creativity

Favorite In his book “The myths of creativity” , David Burkus demystifies the creative process, and explodes what he calls the top ten myths about creativity, based on his research with highly creative individuals and firms. The ten myths are listed and described below, and David introduces two of them

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Shared by Nick Milton February 13, 2020

Lowering total cost of ownership for machine learning and increasing productivity with Amazon SageMaker

Favorite You have many choices for building, training, and deploying machine learning (ML) models. Weighing the financial considerations of different cloud solutions requires detailed analysis. You must consider the infrastructure, operational, and security costs for each step of the ML workflow, as well as the size and expertise of your

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning February 12, 2020

Do social media stifle knowledge sharing?

Favorite Do online social media drive a “spiral of silence” which can stifle proper debate?  It can, according to this techcrunch article, which points to this survey from Pew Research. Shhh by Catherine on Flickr I think everyone would agree that for knowledge to be shared effectively in organisations, people need

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Shared by Nick Milton February 12, 2020