I’ve decided to start a small series of knowledge dumps, where I post my notes from study sessions I have in my free time. Below you’ll find my thought process when learning new information, particularly around machine learning. I find myself asking the same questions over and over, so I write my answers down. Let…
I gave a talk to one of our internal groups at Microsoft today on Progressive Web Apps, PWAs, and thought the notes would also be helpful for those of you interested. I’ve recorded videos on Hosted Web Apps in the past, and they are equally useful, so I’d suggest taking a look at those first.…
I had the sudden urge to go through the Resident Evil series again, so I pulled out my copy of Resident Evil 3 and plugged it into the ePSXe emulator running on my computer. I have the hardware and a framemeister, but it’s far less convenient, in that I don’t have save states or…
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of speaking about how to get started with data science, from the perspective of a developer. It was a great turnout for this new user group, who meet out of the Philadelphia (Malvern) Microsoft office every few weeks. If you’re interested in attending their meetups, you can…
Useful libraries for data visualization Great overview / comparison of these libraries, at pbpython.com. There are so many libraries and frameworks used in Python for data analysis that I had to take a step back and illustrate how they were laid out. PyDataSet Provides instant access to many datasets right from Python (in pandas DataFrame…
This past week I had to work on a project with a customer around Docker and AKS (Azure Container Service).As part of the project, I needed to use the Docker-in-Docker image, but also needed to install the Azure CLI, so I created an image for it here: davevoyles/dind-azurecli Recommended Reading I’d highly recommend Nigel Poulton’s books,…
Amanda Lange and were peers at Microsoft before we took different roles last year. She now works as Technical Evangelist on the academic team, where she partners with the premier institutions across the United States and Canada to host hackathons, design curriculum, and enable students to enter the workforce and immediately make an impact. Before…
Facebook and Microsoft are today introducing Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format, a standard for representing deep learning models that enables models to be transferred between frameworks. ONNX is the first step toward an open ecosystem where AI developers can easily move between state-of-the-art tools and choose the combination that is best for them. ———————–…
Mozilla recently announced a new process for making WebAssembly running in the browser even faster. I’ve been using Firefix as my default browser for some time now, so it’s great to see these additions. Firefox 58 now includes a new 2-tiered compiler. The new baseline compiler compiles code 10–15 times faster than the optimizing compiler.…
You can listen to it here. I gave a talk at Connect.Tech in Atlanta earlier this year, and the recording is now available. ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and game dev newsletter