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Re: Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog

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post #12

The one time I actually want to subscribe/follow something there's no "Hey would you like to give me your email address?" popup... hmm

The link to the RSS feed is right down at the bottom ;)

I did see that, but that RSS feed (atom?) I don't think I've ever used that in my life. I'll Google and see what/how to use it. I see it everywhere though.

edit: I did see that they have a podcast, nice, something to listen to while I walk 2 hours in the middle of the night.

Re: Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog

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post #3

How should I interpret their picture? Can I get an AMI with Keras preconfigured on a p2 instance? Because that would be pretty useful. I currently have a p2 instance (smallest possible one) that I spin up for training and the like.

Yes, the AWS Deep Learning AMI comes with MXNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, Theano, Torch, and Keras installed and ready to use:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/the-aws-deep-learning-ami-no...

Re: Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The link to the RSS feed is right down at the bottom ;)

I did see that, but that RSS feed (atom?) I don't think I've ever used that in my life. I'll Google and see what/how to use it. I see it everywhere though. edit: I did see that they have a podcast, nice, something to listen to while I walk 2 hours in the middle of the night.

Ughh, you're making me feel old. RSS is (was) an amazing system for tracking website updates over time. It lost out to Twitter and Facebook (which don't remotely replace the use case), though it is still what makes podcasts work.

I highly recommend Inoreader as a great RSS reader.

Re: Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog

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We have recently set up a TensorFlow assessment function in AWS lambda, and got very close to the maximum allowed size of a lambda function (250MB) with the trained model currently being 85MB, and the TensorFlow libraries and binaries taking up another 140 or so megabytes by default ( I feel like Amazon could do some work in this area to support users to use their own engines and not be bound to AWS AI Platforms and…

We get around this by using a dependency injection framework (e.g. Guice) and initialising the module statically, so it will only get called once when the JVM loads (i.e. when the Lambda 'warms up') and then inject the dependencies into anything that uses them

For example in one Lambda function, we use Guice to get resources from S3.

Re: Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog

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post #5
post #2

I am a complete noob to the AI space but I was wondering whether the following is possible (in AWS). I have a million scanned images of court documents. Some are briefs, some are motions, some are court orders, etc... Given that I have images and their types, could I "train" the AI with these million documents to recognize a new image that might come in?

Principally, yes. However, the approach may be more nuisanced than that. If I were you, I would first pick a character recognition engine (which might have already been well trained) to convert the image to text. Once the text is there, that might serve as a better feature to classify the content. Furthermore, I had recommend converting words in the text to word-embeddings/ vectors using a suitable Glove or Word2Vec…

i don't know, maybe different approaches could be combined. Maybe the layout provides a clue for some types of court documents? You could calculate the probability function of prediction a certain type right (or just use the outputs of the NN, that depends on the problem) as a confidence value and only do the OCR as a last resort.

Disclaimer: pretty new to ML

Re: Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog

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We have recently set up a TensorFlow assessment function in AWS lambda, and got very close to the maximum allowed size of a lambda function (250MB) with the trained model currently being 85MB, and the TensorFlow libraries and binaries taking up another 140 or so megabytes by default ( I feel like Amazon could do some work in this area to support users to use their own engines and not be bound to AWS AI Platforms and…

It sounds like you're stretching to make the use case fit inside a Lambda.

Have you considered extracting the assessment functionality into an SWF activity, invoked from your Lambda via StepFunctions?

Re: Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did see that, but that RSS feed (atom?) I don't think I've ever used that in my life. I'll Google and see what/how to use it. I see it everywhere though. edit: I did see that they have a podcast, nice, something to listen to while I walk 2 hours in the middle of the night.

Ughh, you're making me feel old. RSS is (was) an amazing system for tracking website updates over time. It lost out to Twitter and Facebook (which don't remotely replace the use case), though it is still what makes podcasts work. I highly recommend Inoreader as a great RSS reader.

Google shutting down their Reader didn't really help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader

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