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Rob Thomas and Jean-Francois Puget published an interesting article “A Practical Guide to Machine Learning: Understand, Differentiate, and Apply“. In particular,  they write:

“Machine Learning  moves application development from programming to training: instead of writing new code, the application developer trains the same application with new data. This is a fundamental shift in application development, because new, updated applications can be obtained automatically on a weekly, if not daily basis. This shift is at the core of the cognitive era in IT.”

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Ron Ross today tweeted a quote from a very interesting Harvard Business Review’s paper Managing your Mission-Critical Knowledge: “Speeding up codification will increase the value of knowledge. But making the tacit explicit can also be dangerous. The more codified the knowledge is, the more easily it may be diffused and copied externally.” The  paper goes further by offering a conceptual framework (click on the picture on the left) for moving from tacit to explicit knowledge.  Continue reading →