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Unlock insights from qualitative text with LLM-enhanced topic modeling

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Unlock insights from qualitative text with LLM-enhanced topic modeling

Whether collected through employee surveys, product feedback channels, voice-to-customer mechanisms, or other unstructured text sources, qualitative data offers invaluable insights that can complement and contextualize quantitative business intelligence. However, the manual effort required to analyze large volumes of open-ended responses has limited access to these insights. Topic modeling approaches such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), … Read more

Understanding the Training Dynamics in Transformers

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Understanding the Training Dynamics in Transformers

Most of today’s cutting-edge AI models are based on the transformer architecture, which is characterized by its use of an attention mechanism. In a large language model (LLM), for example, the transformer determines which words in the text string should be given special attention when generating the next word; in a vision language model, it … Read more

New AWS tool recommends removing unused permissions

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New AWS tool recommends removing unused permissions

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies give customers fine-grained control over who has access to which resources in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. This control helps customers enforce the principle of least privilege by granting only the necessary permissions to perform certain tasks. In practice, however, it requires customers to understand what permissions … Read more

Amazon Research Awards recipients announced

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Amazon Research Awards recipients announced

Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provides unrestricted funding and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating diverse research topics across multiple disciplines. This cycle, ARA received many outstanding research proposals and today publicly announces 10 awardees representing 10 universities. This announcement includes awards funded under three calls for proposals during the Winter 2024 and Spring 2024 … Read more

The 10 most viewed blog posts in 2024

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The 10 most viewed blog posts in 2024

Amazon is looking for a passionate, talented and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading language technology. Our mission is to provide Amazon customers with a delightful experience by pushing the boundaries of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative AI, Large Language Model (LLM), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning … Read more

AWS and Box partner to help companies build AI applications

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AWS and Box partner to help companies build AI applications

Users of the Box intelligent content management platform can now use Amazon Bedrock to build applications with their data and foundational models, starting with Anthropic’s Claude and Amazon Titan. This capability, which was made generally available Thursday (Oct. 24), is the result of a recently expanded strategic partnership between Box and AWS, the companies said … Read more

As Walgreens and Rite Aid close thousands of stores, a rival that could kill their business opens 20 new pharmacies

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As pharmacies across the US struggle, Amazon plans 20 new pharmacies next year

By Tilly Armstrong Assistant Consumer Editor for Dailymail.Com Published: 02:05 BST, 23 October 2024 | Updated: 02:13 BST, 23 October 2024 As pharmacies across the US struggle, Amazon plans 20 new pharmacies next year. In a cost-cutting move, Walgreens said earlier this month it would close 1,200 stores over the next three years. Rite Aid, … Read more

Jeff Bezos would have called Amazon ‘ruthless’, but then someone said that sounded scary – he’s since built a business empire that knows no bounds

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Jeff Bezos would have called Amazon 'ruthless', but then someone said that sounded scary - he's since built a business empire that knows no bounds

Back in 1994, Jeff Bezos almost cold Amazon something completely different – “relentless.” What happened: Bezos loved the name so much that he even registered relentless.com (go ahead, type that into your browser – it still redirects to Amazon today). But here’s the thing – his friends weren’t exactly thrilled with the name. They thought … Read more

Jeremy Clarkson issues health update after emergency heart operation and reveals tasks doctors have ‘forbidden’ him to do

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Jeremy Clarkson issues health update after emergency heart operation and reveals tasks doctors have 'forbidden' him to do

JEREMY Clarkson joked that he is banned from emptying the dishwasher after having life-saving heart surgery. The Clarkson’s Farm star told how he was days from death in the major health hazard. 6 Jeremy Clarkson has undergone life-saving heart surgeryCredit: Arthur Edwards / The Sun 6 Clarkson wears a bandage on his right arm after … Read more