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The main advantage of using PCA for anomaly detection, compared to alternative techniques such as a neural autoencoder, is simplicity -- assuming you have a function that computes eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
10/21/2021
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Interactive notebooks, so vital to AI, data science and machine learning development projects, are coming to Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio IDE via a an experimental extension.
10/06/2021
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a simple technique he has used with good success, previously unpublished and without a standard name.
10/04/2021
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After this summer's debut of the "AI pair programmer," some open source alternatives have been offered, and existing tools have been thrown into the mix as other options.
09/24/2021
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At first thought, computing the similarity/distance between two datasets sounds easy, but in fact the problem is extremely difficult, explains Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research.
09/20/2021
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"It is challenging to make native AI applications portable to multiple platforms given the variations in programming languages and deployment environments."
09/13/2021
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In what might be seen as a challenge to the super-popular combination of Visual Studio Code and its Python extension, JetBrains is testing its own IDE for data scientists called DataSpell.
09/08/2021
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains stochastic gradient descent (SGD) neural network training, specifically implementing a bio-inspired optimization technique called differential evolution optimization (DEO).
09/07/2021
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Visual Studio Code is now using machine learning to detect what programming language is being used in a pasted-in file and then automatically set the appropriate mode.
09/07/2021
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"Developers should remain vigilant ('awake') when using Copilot as a co-pilot."
08/26/2021
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The regular monthly update to Microsoft's Azure SDK improves Cognitive Services text analytics, specifically with a new Question Answering SDK that supplants QnA Maker.
08/25/2021
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Will advanced AI robots replace professional software developers? Depends on who you ask.
08/18/2021
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to compute the Wasserstein distance and explains why it is often preferable to alternative distance functions, used to measure the distance between two probability distributions in machine learning projects.
08/16/2021
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"It will become possible to do more and more sophisticated things with your software just by telling it what to do."
08/11/2021
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The August 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code completes a revamp of the Jupyter Notebooks experience that was started more than a year ago.
08/09/2021
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains how to implement a geometry-inspired optimization technique called spiral dynamics optimization (SDO), an alternative to Calculus-based techniques that may reach their limits with huge neural networks.
08/02/2021
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After triggering existential angst among developers, the new 'AI pair programmer' has the Free Software Foundation calling for white papers to address legal and philosophical questions.
07/29/2021
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full movie review example to explain the natural language processing (NLP) problem of sentiment analysis, used to predict whether some text is positive (class 1) or negative (class 0).
07/06/2021
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"Let's see the question we're all wondering ... can this replace our jobs?" said a Reddit reader commenting on the site's thread for GitHub Copilot, an "AI pair programmer" unveiled as a technical preview this week.
06/30/2021
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A new "AI pair programmer" represents a breakthrough in the third revolution of software development: the use of AI in coding, says GitHub CEO Nat Friedman.
06/29/2021
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ML.NET -- an open source, cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET devs -- now works on ARM64 and Apple M1 devices, and on Blazor WebAssembly, with some limitations for each.
06/29/2021
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research demonstrates applying the L-BFGS optimization algorithm to the ML logistic regression technique for binary classification -- predicting one of two possible discrete values.
06/23/2021
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"IntelliCode Package Suggestions use a collaborative filtering algorithm to take the context of your project, including the installed packages and project framework, to then suggest packages that are frequently included in similar projects."
06/03/2021
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Microsoft claims its new PyTorch Enterprise on Microsoft Azure is the first offering from a cloud platform to provide enterprise support for PyTorch, the popular open source deep learning framework.
06/03/2021
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains a generative adversarial network, a deep neural system that can be used to generate synthetic data for machine learning scenarios, such as generating synthetic males for a dataset that has many females but few males.
06/02/2021