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Favorite Another post from the archives on dealing with the “unknown knowns” in Knowledge Management. We hear a lot (famously from Donald Rumsfeld) about the unknown unknowns, and how difficult they are to deal with, and in knowledge management terms, they can be a real challenge. However an equally challenging
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Shared by Nick Milton August 2, 2019
Favorite The knower/learner spectrum is one of the key dimensions of KM culture, and one that all knowledge managers should understand. Image by muffinn on Flickr Knowers and Learners are two archetypes within Knowledge Management, representing two end-members of one of the ten cultural dimensions of Organisational Learning. The difference
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Favorite Amazon Elastic Inference (EI) is a new service launched at re:Invent 2018. Elastic Inference reduces the cost of running deep learning inference by up to 75% compared to using standalone GPU instances. Elastic Inference lets you attach accelerators to any Amazon SageMaker or Amazon EC2 instance type and run inference
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 31, 2019
Favorite For a long time, it was only in science fiction that machines verbalized emotions. As of today, Amazon Polly is one step closer to changing that. As we work on Amazon Polly, we’re constantly seeking to improve the voices. We hope you’ll agree that today’s announcement of not only
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Favorite I blogged yesterday about groupthink. Would you like to see this in action? The video below is a startling example of how people will agree with a group even when they know the answer is wrong. This is known as Conformity Bias, the our tendency to take cues from the
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Favorite KM is beset by cognitive biases such as Groupthink. Maybe the Devil’s Advocate role is needed to help combat this? Groupthink by Oscar Berg on Flickr The biggest impediments to learning in an organisation are mental impediments, driven by cognitive biases. These include the confirmation bias (where we only
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Favorite What makes KM unique? This post from the archives attempts to explain. Image by dayeonge from Pixabay Any management discipline needs to have a defined unique area of scope if it is to add value. It needs to be different enough from other disciplines, and distinct enough, that it
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Favorite The most valuable skill for the Knowledge Management professional is the skill of facilitation. This is one of the first skills a new KM team must learn. Photo by Nicholas Wang on Flickr Knowledge is created and used by people – it needs to be externalised an internalised by
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Favorite When Electronic Caregiver’s founder and CEO, Anthony Dohrmann, started the company a decade ago, he was reacting to a difficult situation faced by 100 million Americans and countless individuals globally: the challenge of managing health treatment for chronic diseases. “Patients are often confused about their care instructions and non-adherence
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Favorite Customers often ask us how to get started when they do not have a deep data science and machine learning (ML) background. At AWS, our goal is to put ML in the hands of every developer and data scientist. AWS Training and Certification has partnered with edX to help you get started
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