Q# – a Wish List for the New Year
In previous blog posts you have read about some of the ideas behind Q#, how it came into existence, and its development over the past year. You have read about quantum computing, quantum algorithms and...
View ArticleUsing Visual Studio Code to program Circuit Python with an AdaFruit...
My son and I were working on an Adafruit NeoTrellis M4 Mainboard over the holidays. This amazing little device puts a NeoPixel + an Audio board + a USB port along with a 120 MHz Cortex M4 Core and a...
View ArticleIntroducing new advanced security and compliance offerings for Microsoft 365
In an age of increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats and regulations like GDPR, new offerings for Microsoft 365 address the growing need for security and compliance solutions. The post...
View ArticleMyAnalytics, the fitness tracker for work, is now more broadly available
MyAnalytics is now available to more of our enterprise and business customers. MyAnalytics helps you work smarter—from cutting unproductive meeting time to reducing time spent working after hours. It...
View ArticleIntroducing new advanced security and compliance offerings for Microsoft 365
In an age of increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats and regulations like GDPR, new offerings for Microsoft 365 address the growing need for security and compliance solutions. The post...
View ArticleMyAnalytics, the fitness tracker for work, is now more broadly available
MyAnalytics is now available to more of our enterprise and business customers. MyAnalytics helps you work smarter—from cutting unproductive meeting time to reducing time spent working after hours. It...
View ArticleNotebooks from the Practical AI Workshop
Last month, I delivered the one-day workshop Practical AI for the Working Software Engineer at the Artificial Intelligence Live conference in Orlando. As the title suggests, the workshop was aimed at...
View ArticleIntelligent Product Search and Recommendations for Fashion Retail
The ranking techniques used in Bing Ads can help fashion retailers display more relevant product ads in a cost-effective way which may also be more attractive for shoppers. By working with a prominent...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: December 2018 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from December of particular interest to R users. R 3.5.2 is now available. Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from December 2018....
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Synthetic faces, styled to your specifications
If you need someone's face to use in an application or some marketing materials, you might search one of the stock photography vendors for people of a given gender, skin tone, hairstyle, etc. Or, you...
View ArticleAzure.Source – Volume 64
Updates Azure Migrate is now available in Azure Government The Azure Migrate service assesses on-premises workloads for migration to Azure. The service assesses the migration suitability of on-premises...
View ArticleTo infinity and beyond: The definitive guide to scaling 10k VMs on Azure
Every platform has limits, workstations and physical servers have resource boundaries, APIs may be rate-limited, and even the perceived endlessness of the virtual public cloud enforces limitations that...
View ArticleTeradata to Azure SQL Data Warehouse migration guide
With the increasing benefits of cloud-based data warehouses, there has been a surge in the number of customers migrating from their traditional on-premises data warehouses to the cloud. Microsoft Azure...
View ArticleCognitive Services Speech SDK 1.2 – December update – Python, Node.js/NPM and...
Developers can now access the latest improvements to Cognitive Services Speech Service including a new Python API and more. Details below. Read the updated Speech Services documentation to get started...
View ArticleGain insight into your Azure Cosmos DB data with QlikView and Qlik Sense
Connecting data from various sources in a unified view can produce valuable insights that are otherwise invisible to the human eye and brain. As Azure Cosmos DB allows for collecting the data from...
View ArticleRelationship Hacks: Playing video games and having hobbies while avoiding...
I'm going to try to finished my Relationship Hacks book in 2019. I've been sitting on it too long. I'm going to try to use blog posts to spur myself into action. A number of people asked me what...
View ArticleAzure DevOps Agents on Azure Container Instances (ACI)
This article provides a solution for running Azure DevOps agents (Build/Release agents) on Windows Server Core based containers, hosted on Azure Container Instances (ACI). A solution like this might be...
View ArticleNew Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery enhancements for cloud migration
We are continuously enhancing our offerings to help you in your digital transformation journey to the cloud. You can read more about these offerings in the blog, “Three reasons why Windows Server and...
View ArticleStreamlined development experience with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.6.0
We’re happy to announce the release of Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.6.0. It includes new features such as application versioning, updated messaging, and streamlined smart contract development. You can...
View ArticleAzureR packages now on CRAN
The suite of AzureR packages for interfacing with Azure services from R is now available on CRAN. If you missed the earlier announcements, this means you can now use the install.packages function in R...
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