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Trying out some hidden functionality that can be enabled with a few mouse clicks (and maybe an IDE restart).
06/23/2022
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses a full code program for a step-by-step explanation of this machine learning technique that indicates if patterns are random.
06/17/2022
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains the classical machine learning technique typically used for binary classification -- predicting an outcome that can only be one of two discrete values.
06/01/2022
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains the machine learning technique, which can be used to predict a person's happiness score from their income and education, for example.
05/19/2022
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Microsoft recommends replacing relic from old .NET Framework with Blazor, but you can still do ASP.NET Web Forms apps in Visual Studio 2022 if you want to, with a couple tweaks.
05/16/2022
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Whether you are building desktop apps, mobile apps or Single-Page Applications (SPAs), nearly every application needs backend APIs. Not only do these APIs need to provide business functionality, but they need to be performant, scalable and most importantly secure.
05/12/2022
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We caught up with Rockford Lhotka about an upcoming deep-dive presentation on the "hottest" project in the Microsoft-centric web-dev space, which provides a C#-based experience instead of JavaScript, now targeting mobile and even desktop.
05/09/2022
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"You can make and save a *lot* of money by placing design thinking and innovation at the heart of your application development -- perhaps more money than your entire software development budget!"
05/05/2022
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Dapr addresses a large challenge inherent in modern distributed applications: complexity.
05/03/2022
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full step-by-step example with all code to predict a person's optimism score from their occupation, eye color and country.
05/02/2022
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What if you already know what the Startup class does, how configuration is handled and what Kestrel is?
04/27/2022
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CIFAR-10 problems analyze crude 32 x 32 color images to predict which of 10 classes the image is. Here, Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to create a PyTorch image classification system for the CIFAR-10 dataset.
04/11/2022
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Epic fail by editor of Visual Studio Magazine, who has never even HEARD of Browxy.
04/05/2022
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CIFAR-10 problems analyze crude 32 x 32 color images to predict which of 10 classes the image is. Here, Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains how to get the raw source CIFAR-10 data, convert it from binary to text and save it as a text file that can be used to train a PyTorch neural network classifier.
04/01/2022
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This demo from Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research of creating a prediction system for IMDB data using an LSTM network can be a guide to create a classification system for most types of text data.
03/21/2022
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to get the raw source IMDB data, read the movie reviews into memory, parse and tokenize the reviews, create a vocabulary dictionary and convert the reviews to a numeric form.
03/03/2022
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research details the "Hello World" of image classification: a convolutional neural network (CNN) applied to the MNIST digits dataset.
02/15/2022
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research demonstrates how to fetch and prepare MNIST data for image recognition machine learning problems.
02/01/2022
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research explains a new idea that slightly modifies standard simulated annealing by borrowing ideas from quantum mechanics.
01/20/2022
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With .NET 6 and the latest Visual Studio 2022 preview, developers can create a hybrid Blazor/.NET MAUI app that can work with local machine resources in ways that ordinary Blazor (web) apps can't.
01/18/2022
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A chi-square (also called chi-squared) test is a classical statistics technique that can be used to determine if observed-count data matches expected-count data.
01/03/2022
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With Visual Studio 2022 having debuted just one month ago, there are now dozens of new extensions available specifically targeting the revolutionary 64-bit IDE.
12/08/2021
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses the Hugging Face library to simplify the implementation of NLP systems using Transformer Architecture (TA) models.
12/07/2021
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Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items).
12/01/2021
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The goal is sentiment analysis -- accept the text of a movie review (such as, "This movie was a great waste of my time.") and output class 0 (negative review) or class 1 (positive review).
11/16/2021