Organizations in virtually every industry are now awash in more data than they know what to do with. But how can they take all of that information and use it to arrive at new insights that help to improve operations and chart a path forward? The exact journey from data, to insight, to decision-making will look slightly different for every organization. But my observations of best practices across industries reveal a common architecture to the process. Anyone who opens up an e-commerce shop on a platform like Shopify almost instantly begins to collect data – information about transactions from different channels, suppliers, inventory, customer reviews, and other sources.

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Computer monitors that support HDMI 2.1, the latest HDMI standard, are beginning to trickle into online retailers. They sell at extremely high prices (when they're available at all). Even the most affordable HDMI 2.1 monitors, like the Gigabyte Aorus FI32U and Acer Nitro XV282K KV, are priced near $1,000. The high price of HDMI 2.1 implies it's important, but the truth is more nuanced. HDMI 2.1 brings new features to the table, but they're relevant only to people with specific needs.

After forming a partnership with Walmart in July to reoutfit the retailer's distribution network with a fleet of fully autonomous robots, Symbotic has announced plans to become a publicly traded company early next year. Yesterday, the robotics and automation firm announced it will go public via a special acquisition company (SPAC), courtesy of a merger with SoftBank Investment Advisers' SVF Investment Corp 3 (SVFC). Once the merger is finalised in the first half of 2022, the combined company will operate under the name Symbotic and trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol SYM. Both Walmart and Symbotic declined comment following a series of phone calls and emails from Capital.com. In the company release issued on Tuesday, Symbotic chair and CEO Rick Cohen said, "Now is the time to take Symbotic to the next level."

Natural language processing (NLP) has been a hot topic in the AI field for some time. As current NLP models get larger and larger, data scientists and developers struggle to set up the infrastructure for such growth of model size. For faster training time, distributed training across multiple machines is a natural choice for developers. However, distributed training comes with extra node communication overhead, which negatively impacts the efficiency of model training. This post shows how to pretrain an NLP model (ALBERT) on Amazon SageMaker by using Hugging Face Deep Learning Container (DLC) and transformers library.

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GAN is a generative ML model that is widely used in advertising, games, entertainment, media, pharmaceuticals, and other industries. You can use it to create fictional characters and scenes, simulate facial aging, change image styles, produce chemical formulas synthetic data, and more. For example, the following images show the effect of picture-to-picture conversion. The following images show the effect of synthesizing scenery based on semantic layout. This post walks you through building your first GAN model using Amazon SageMaker. This is a journey of learning GAN from the perspective of practical engineering experiences, as well as opening a new AI/ML domain of generative models.

AutoML is a powerful capability, provided by Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, that allows non-experts to create machine learning (ML) models to invoke in their applications. The problem that we want to solve arises when, due to governance constraints, Amazon SageMaker resources can't be deployed in the same AWS account where they are used. This post walks through an implementation using the SageMaker Python SDK. It's divided into two sections: The solution described in this post is provided in the Jupyter notebook available in this GitHub repository. For a full explanation of Autopilot, you can refer to the examples available in GitHub, particularly Top Candidates Customer Churn Prediction with Amazon SageMaker Autopilot and Batch Transform (Python SDK).

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Discrete and continuous manufacturing lines generate a high volume of products at low latency, ranging from milliseconds to a few seconds. To identify defects at the same throughput of production, camera streams of images must be processed at low latency. Additionally, factories may have low network bandwidth or intermittent cloud connectivity. In such scenarios, you may need to run the defect detection system on your on-premises compute infrastructure, and upload the processed results for further development and monitoring purposes to the AWS Cloud. This hybrid approach with both local edge hardware and the cloud can address the low latency requirements and help reduce storage and network transfer costs to the cloud.