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Amazon Opens Up Its Internal Machine Learning Training To Everyone (amazon.com)
Amazon announced Monday that it's making the machine learning courses it uses to train its engineers available to everybody for free. The course is tailored to four major groups -- developers, data scientists, data platform engineers and business professionals -- and it offers both foundational level lessons as well as more advanced instruction.
Who's next, Salesforce?
This will make it harder to sunset systems.
At least now, when a system is a net negative for an IT shop and no one is using it they make a plan to sunset it.
By making software free, Amazon is hampering this ability to manage in this way.
Not mentioned in the summary, is AWS certification as well.
You can just take the courses for free, but if you want something more verifiable it looks like Amazon is also offering a new AWS certification "AWS Certified Machine Learning â" Specialty"
I've never gotten an AWS certification, but it sounds possibly like it would be of some value if you were looking for a position...
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This is smart. It helps Amazon by increasing the demand for their cloud computing ML resources. It also lets them be seen doing good, i.e. spreading free knowledge.
In another /. article today we read that Google gave China the farm with open source, Android, etc. Now Amazon are giving their best away free. So all knowledge, which has been touted as the only thing of value for the next generation, is now discounted to zero. You will have thousands of eager AI engineers scrambling for "jobs" and topping out at 4 Rupees or 1 Yuan a day. How is this not going to end badly?
If the material is simple enough that third world inhabitents are able to learn and apply the knowledge, I guess you have to wonder why we're wasting our best and brightest performing that job anyway. They need to be doing more complex and difficult tasks.
developers, data scientists, data platform engineers and business professionals.
Wait, no Russian trolls? Well I guess I will politely take my leave.
There are more than 30 self-service, self-paced digital courses with more than 45 hours of courses, videos, and labs for four key groups: developers, data scientists, data platform engineers, and business professionals. Each course starts with the fundamentals, and builds on those through real-world examples and labs, allowing developers to explore machine learning through some fun problems we have had to solve at Amazon. These include predicting gift wrapping eligibility, optimizing delivery routes, or predicting entertainment award nominations using data from IMDb (an Amazon subsidiary). Coursework helps consolidate best practices, and demonstrates how to get started on a range of AWS machine learning services, including Amazon SageMaker, AWS DeepLens, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Comprehend.
Anyone that's actually tried using AWS will know first hand how shitty their docs are. Many of the web console docs are several releases out of date and the screen captures look nothing like the current version. Then there's commonly used stuff that has crap docs. To the point where it's basically unusable docs. If their lessons are like their docs, it will suck ass and be worthless. There are plenty of good free resources that teach various tools like tensorflow, pytorch, cafe2, keras, deeplearning4java and mxnet.
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You are making the assumption that only thing separating people is access to information.
It isn't.
Maybe APK can use it to train his hostfiles
Requires 150$ for computer time per exam + buying machine time for assignments. So definitely not 'free'.
nah ,not even god can do that
FTFY