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Favorite I was asked last week whether Covid-induced remote working promotes KM. I don’t think it does yet; but the opportunity exists to make KM part of the New Normal. Image from tradoc.army.mil Firstly let’s recognise what the response to Covid has delivered, namely a “burning platform” to drive digital
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Shared by Nick Milton July 14, 2020
Favorite In this article from Forbes Magazine in 2012, Steven Denning, once head of KM at the World Bank and a wise commentator on Knowledge Management topics, describes his ten principles for managing knowledge. These are as follows The amount of money that could be spent on accumulating knowledge is infinite: Knowledge is
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Favorite GPUs can significantly speed up deep learning training, and have the potential to reduce training time from weeks to just hours. However, to fully benefit from the use of GPUs, you should consider the following aspects: Optimizing code to make sure that underlying hardware is fully utilized Using the
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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 10, 2020
Favorite Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that can extract key phrases, places, names, organizations, events, sentiment from unstructured text, and more (for more information, see Detect Entities). But what if you want to add entity types unique to your business, like proprietary part codes or industry-specific
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Favorite Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art results in tasks such as image classification and object detection. They are used in many diverse applications, such as in autonomous driving to detect traffic signs and objects on the street, in healthcare to more accurately classify anomalies in image-based data, and in
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Favorite Translation services make it easier to communicate with someone who doesn’t speak the same language, whether you’re traveling abroad or living in a new country. But in the context of a global pandemic, government and health officials urgently need to deliver vital information to their communities, and every member
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Shared by Google AI Technology July 10, 2020
Favorite There is often conflict between creating revenue and creating knowledge. Both of these require time, resources and incentives, and so are often in conflict. The problem is that knowledge is the source of future revenue. Timesheet logo from wikimedia commons Any piece of revenue-generating work can create knowledge as
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Favorite AI is a powerful tool that will have a significant impact on society for many years to come, from improving sustainability around the globe to advancing the accuracy of disease screenings. As a leader in AI, we’ve always prioritized the importance of understanding its societal implications and developing it
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Favorite Audio content consumption has grown exponentially in the past few years. Statista reports that podcast ad revenue will exceed a billion dollars in 2021. For the publishing industry and content providers, providing audio as an alternative option to reading could improve engagement with users and be an incremental revenue
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Favorite Editor’s Note: Do you ever feel like a fish out of water? Try being a tech novice and talking to an engineer at a place like Google. Ask a Techspert is a series on the Keyword asking Googler experts to explain complicated technology for the rest of us. This
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