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Mercu meets deskless workers where they are

TechCrunch

Keeping workers means staying in constant touch with them and that means meeting them where they are, which is why Mercu works with popular messaging apps instead of requiring workers to download yet another one. Sam Prince Hospitality Group uses Mercu to send continuous training, including SOP updates, product information and sales training.

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Frugality meets Accuracy: Cost-efficient training of GPT NeoX and Pythia models with AWS Trainium

AWS Machine Learning - AI

A generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) uses causal autoregressive updates to make prediction. Training LLMs requires colossal amount of compute time, which costs millions of dollars. Training LLMs requires colossal amount of compute time, which costs millions of dollars. We’ll outline how we cost-effectively (3.2

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Efficient continual pre-training LLMs for financial domains

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Large language models (LLMs) are generally trained on large publicly available datasets that are domain agnostic. For example, Meta’s Llama models are trained on datasets such as CommonCrawl , C4 , Wikipedia, and ArXiv. The resulting LLM outperforms LLMs trained on non-domain-specific datasets when tested on finance-specific tasks.

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Singapore’s Skills Union wants to close the skills gap via live video training

TechCrunch

Online professional training isn’t new; it’s not uncommon to see medium-sized startups allocate several thousand dollars to individual employees each year to further their “personal development.” Screenshot of Skills Union’s training platform. The model also enables more flexible learning.

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PM Development: How Product People Continue to Learn

Speaker: Greg Coticchia - CEO, Sopheon

Unfortunately, little has changed in the world of product management education, training, or preparation to meet today’s high demand. Product managers are still predominantly trained on the job.

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Xembly raises cash to develop an AI assistant for corporate meetings

TechCrunch

Amidst all the challenges and tribulations, workers believe a large portion of their work week is unproductive, with the majority of respondents to a recent (2018) Intuit survey saying that they’d get more done with fewer meetings, for one — and with more sleep. Julie Desk handles the scheduling of meetings, appointments and more.

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Maximizing ROI: How to Translate Leadership Training into Behaviors that Last

Let's Grow Leaders

The leader-led Challenge and Support groups have been so helpful as we’ve worked to implement what we learned in our leadership training. AskingforaFriend How to Embed Leadership Training into Your Workplace Culture First, I’m so impressed with all you’ve done already. How do we continue to sustain the momentum?

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How to Successfully Coach Your Sales Team to Drive Efficiency

Speaker: Steve Benson, Founder and CEO, Badger Maps

To enable your team to perform at its best and increase sales efficiency, it’s important that you give them the training, knowledge and tools that they need to be successful. Coach based on critical skills and behaviors such as preparing for sales meetings, pitching, overcoming objections and closing. This means coaching.