Powering a search engine with Amazon SageMaker

Favorite This is a guest post by Evan Harris, Manager of Machine Learning at Ibotta. In their own words, “Ibotta is transforming the shopping experience by making it easy for consumers to earn cash back on everyday purchases through a single smartphone app. The company partners with leading brands and

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning May 30, 2019

When to learn from experience, when to learn from others

Favorite Learning from your own experience is a preferred option only when the cost of those experiences is low. Anyone can learn from experience. Even my dog learns from experience. Three times she has tangled with an electric fence (once even managing to clip herself to the fence with the

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Shared by Nick Milton May 21, 2019

The Synthesis step in KM

Favorite Individual bits of learned knowledge need to be synthesised into a common understanding. Synthesis [critical thinking skills] by Enokson, on Flickr Knowledge is incremental – it arrives as discrete learnings from experience. These increments of knowledge may be documented as lessons identified, best practices, blog posts, wiki pages and

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Shared by Nick Milton May 20, 2019