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Re: Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers

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I loved AMZN's cloud certifications. Not a Data Scientist / ML Developer, nor am I trying to be, but I love sitting for these exams as I believe the amount of study gives you enough credibility to have thoughtful conversations with specialists.

Looking forward to reading sentiment to see if the curriculum is industry relevant and worthwhile!

Re: Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers

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"The digital courses are now available at no charge at aws.training/machinelearning and you only pay for the services you use in labs and exams during your training."

Any one has an idea how much it might cost going through the training?

Re: Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers

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All that machine learning and they still send me reviews for products I haven’t received.

All that machine learning and they still think I would like to re-buy every product I've ever purchased.

Google has the same problem. I was searching for information about Apache Chainsaw the other day, and at one point forgot to put the word "apache" in as a search term. Ended up with adverts for actual chainsaws for like a week.

Re: Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers

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"The digital courses are now available at no charge at aws.training/machinelearning and you only pay for the services you use in labs and exams during your training." Any one has an idea how much it might cost going through the training?

I bet on the order of tens of dollars. I know that when I do my demo of amazon machine learning (another ML service they offer) it costs about $0.50/demo, which processes about 25k records.

Re: Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers

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All that machine learning and they still send me reviews for products I haven’t received.

All that machine learning and they still think I would like to re-buy every product I've ever purchased.

My guess is that they are really bad at de-duping products. Product ids vs skus and all that jazz is historically not handled well in recommender systems, and those product not recognized as variants of already purchased products end up being the closest in the "graph" to be recommended so shoot to the top.

Re: Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers

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post #4

I loved AMZN's cloud certifications. Not a Data Scientist / ML Developer, nor am I trying to be, but I love sitting for these exams as I believe the amount of study gives you enough credibility to have thoughtful conversations with specialists. Looking forward to reading sentiment to see if the curriculum is industry relevant and worthwhile!

The "credibility" point is important. As I say in all data MOOC-related HN threads, these types of courses will not make you an expert, but they're very good at giving a background on the terminology so it's less arcane.
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