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The free plan restricts the number of completions, chat requests and access to AI models, being suitable for occasional users and small projects.
12/18/2024
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Microsoft improved on its new "Copilot Edit" functionality in the latest release of Visual Studio Code, v1.96, its open-source based code editor that has become the most popular in the world according to many surveys.
12/17/2024
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the AdaBoost.R2 algorithm for regression problems (where the goal is to predict a single numeric value). The implementation follows the original source research paper closely, so you can use it as a guide for customization for specific scenarios.
12/16/2024
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No matter what, some systems simply won't divulge exactly what in the current conversation caused them to balk, simply pointing to vague policies and generic guidance.
12/09/2024
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"AI right now feels like a vast space which can be hard to jump into," says Craig Loewen, a senior product manager at Microsoft who is helping devs unsure about making that first daunting leap.
12/05/2024
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"We want to try to design from Day One, even Day Zero, with reusability in mind," says Blazor expert Allen Conway in imparting his expertise to an audience of hundreds in an online tech event on Tuesday.
12/04/2024
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression using the C# language. Unlike most implementations, this one does not use recursion or pointers, which makes the code easy to understand and modify.
12/02/2024
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At this week's Microsoft Ignite conference, the Visual Studio team showed off a future AI-powered IDE that will leverage GitHub Copilot for legacy app .NET upgrades, along with several more cutting-edge features.
11/22/2024
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Eschewing the term "Copilot," Microsoft introduced a new AI-powered tool for PowerShell called "AI Shell," available in preview.
11/22/2024
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GitHub says new research proves its Copilot AI tool can improve code quality, following earlier reports that said it boosts developer productivity -- and has a retort for contrarian studies.
11/22/2024
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The brand-new Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 lets devs specify the AI model they want to use with the baked-in GitHub Copilot, but some are clamoring for more options, such as the latest/greatest Claude 3.5 Sonnet model from Anthropic that is available in VS Code.
11/20/2024
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Microsoft's early embrace of advanced AI in its dev tooling continues apace with the new public preview of SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, the company's analytics/data platform.
11/19/2024
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The company will infuse multi-agent runtime tech developed in its AutoGen research project into its production-ready Semantic Kernel SDK, both open source.
11/18/2024
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of k-nearest neighbors regression to predict a single numeric value. Compared to other machine learning regression techniques, k-NN regression is often slightly less accurate, but is very simple to implement and customize, and the results are highly interpretable.
11/15/2024
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Microsoft just shipped Visual Studio 2022 v17.12, focusing on enhancing developer experiences specifically for .NET 9 projects and introducing new AI productivity features. This update incorporates numerous developer-requested enhancements aimed at simplifying workflows and improving overall productivity.
11/13/2024
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Microsoft announced its open-source Semantic Kernel toolkit for integrating advanced AI models into applications is now available on the Amazon Bedrock managed service.
11/07/2024
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In announcing SSMS 21 Preview 1 this week, Microsoft revealed Copilot AI for the tool is also being previewed, privately.
11/07/2024
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of data clustering and anomaly detection using the DBSCAN (Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) algorithm. Compared to other anomaly detection systems based on data clustering, DBSCAN can find significantly different types of anomalies.
11/06/2024
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Microsoft's October 2024 release of Visual Studio Code (v1.95) focuses on enhancing the AI-driven development experience through GitHub Copilot. AI-related updates affect large code edits, multi-account support, and a more accessible Copilot Chat.
11/06/2024
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Here's a taste of our no-coding future, thanks to Copilot AI.
10/24/2024
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Microsoft today previewed a keynote presentation by Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen at an upcoming developer/IT pro event where he will be joined by other company dev luminaries such as Jon Galloway, Rachel Kang, and James Montemagno.
10/23/2024
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Since announcing Visual Studio 2022 v17.11 in August, Microsoft's dev team has been busy shipping a series of AI-heavy previews for the next edition.
10/17/2024
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Microsoft has baked advanced GitHub Copilot tech into the latest edition of Visual Studio, but the aging IntelliCode feature of the IDE actually helped shape the modern experience.
10/16/2024
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the Winnow classification technique. Winnow classification is used for a very specific scenario where the target variable to predict is binary and all the predictor variables are also binary.
10/15/2024
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Vision-centric queries show how front-line experts are prompting LLMs these days.
10/11/2024