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#CognitiveServices – New service: Anomaly Detector

Hi ! So, I’m fully focused on have an amazing Canadian !nnovate Event in Avanade and I almost miss this new service, in the Cognitive Services Family: Anomaly Detector. I was planning to run my 30K Around the Bay this weekend and also finish my session for the next Global AI Night (link), however I — read more

Mar 27, 2019
#Event – Disrupt AI: #Hackathon

Hi ! DisruptAI is a two-day hackathon sponsored by Microsoft which challenges you to disrupt your industry using AI and data science. I’ll be learning and mentoring teams to hack and build amazing stuff ! More information and Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/evoke-disruptai-hackathon-tickets-54971356808 Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno — read more

Mar 25, 2019
#Humor – Eventual Consistency, via @gregyoung

Hi ! Source: https://twitter.com/gregyoung/status/1101642600342265857 Greetings @ Burlington El Bruno — read more

Mar 24, 2019
#AI – #PowerPoint realtime subtitles / captions also available in #MacOS

Hi ! Wow, I haven’t opened my Mac in a couple of days, and today I switch back to MacOS and I found that the subtitle / captions feature for PowerPoint is also available in PowerPoint for Mac ! That’s so cool ! Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno — read more

Mar 21, 2019
#AI – Another cool AI feature in #PowerPoint: realtime subtitles / captions

Hi ! A few days ago, I wrote about a cool feature in PowerPoint which is 100% supported by AI: PowerPoint Idea Designer. However, AI is used not only to support design, also in scenarios to support accessibility or to help people communicating in different languages. You only need to click 2 times to activate real-time — read more

Mar 20, 2019
#AI – Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding

Hi ! One team in Microsoft Research have released a new Deep Neural Network for learning universal language embeddings: Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding (MT-DNN). Language embeddings is a process used to map elements in sentences to vector representations. This is mostly used in tools like LUIS (Language Understanding) to analyze sentences — read more

Mar 19, 2019
#Humor – Developer pain scale (using #Javascript as reference of course!, thanks @EdgarSanchez)

Hi ! Thanks to my friend @EdgarSanchez I found this amazing developer pain scale (using Javascript as reference of course!) Greetings @ Burlington El Bruno — read more

Mar 17, 2019
#Event – Global #AI Nights in Toronto, on April 2nd with @metrotorontoug

Hi ! I’ll be lucky enough to be part of the team hosting the 1st Global AI Night in Toronto with the amazing team of Metro Toronto User Group (@metrotorontoug) ! The Global AI Night is a free evening event organized by local communities all over the world that are passionate about Artificial Intelligence on — read more

Mar 15, 2019
#AI – Microsoft launches AI Business School

Hi ! How many times you listen sentences like these ones: We will use Artificial Intelligence to analyze historical data and make some predictions to improve XYZ. We can use Machine Learning to get a better understanding of the problem. This is a typical scenario for AI, we can solve this using AI. And more — read more

Mar 14, 2019
#CustomVision – It’s time to move your Custom Vision projects to #Azure!

Hi ! I’ve been writing a lot about Custom Vision, and how use and export CV models to ONNX or docker images to be used later in different types of scenarios. I got this post in draft mode, so it’s time to publish it. If you are using CustomVision.ai, you probably notice the warning message — read more

Mar 12, 2019
#OpenSource – Microsoft open sources the Calculator, and the app is the less important part of this

Hi ! A couple of days ago Microsoft announced that they open sourced the Windows Calculator. Official Blog Post, Announcing the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator And there were a lot of mixed opinions (as usual) about this. Of course, we have the [full time haters] with some arguments like, this is not enough or — read more

Mar 11, 2019
#Humor – Learn c++ in one video

Hi! C++ devs will know … Greetings @ Burlington El Bruno — read more

Mar 10, 2019
#AI – My posts on CustomVision.ai, running on ONNX, Docker, on PC, RaspberryPi, MacOS and more !

Hi ! After the events in Canada and USA, and several posts, I think it’s time to make a recap of the posts I’ve wrote about CustomVision.ai and how I created a custom object recognition project. And later used this as a web HTTP Endpoint in a Console application. And also in Windows 10 with — read more

Mar 8, 2019
#MacOs – Where is my Total Commander? hey, the amazing fman is a great alternative!

Hi ! In my 2 previous posts I shared my experiences looking for alternatives to Paint and Putty in MacOS. Both tools are very important, however are not as frecuently used as this one in Windows: Total Commander. Total Commander is amazing, that’s it. I’ve using TC since I’m using Windows. The whole idea of — read more

Mar 6, 2019
#Docker – Tiempos de respuesta promedio utilizando #CustomVision.ai en un contenedor con Docker en #RaspberryPi u en PC

Buenas ! Alguien me pregunto por la performance de un proyecto de customvision.ai ejecutándose en una Raspberry Pi, y se me ocurrió que la mejor forma de explicarlo es mostrar las diferencias de tiempos de respuesta del mismo contenedor en Docker en PC y en una Raspberry Pi. La PC donde haré la prueba tiene — read more

Mar 6, 2019
#Docker – Average response times using a CustomVision.ai docker container in a #RaspberryPi and a PC

Hi ! I was testing the performance of the same customvision.ai exported project, running in a docker container in standard PC and a Raspberry Pi. And, I’m really surprised and happy about the RPI times. Let’s start with the times for a container running in a PC with the following specs Note: I know this — read more

Mar 5, 2019
#Office – An amazing example of the power of #AI inside #Powerpoint

Hi ! There are tons of demos about amazing using of Artificial Intelligence. I always try to choose and show the ones, who can be easily translated into our day to day experience. That´s why the option [Design Ideas] in Power Point is an amazing demo on how to use this. In the following video, — read more

Mar 4, 2019
#Humor – Best way to understand While and Do While Loops

Hi! Greetings @ Burlington El Bruno — read more

Mar 3, 2019
#Event – Global Azure Bootcamp, Mississauga, Call for Speakers open!

Hi ! Wow, it seems yesterday when I was sharing some Cognitive Services experiences in the Global Azure Bootcamp 2018. Now, I’m happy to announce that the 2019 edition will be on April 27 at Microsoft Offices in Mississauga. More information in the official website. And, a couple of days ago, we opened the Call — read more

Mar 1, 2019
#Hololens – After the huge announcement of #Hololens2, here are some interesting resources

Hi ! The official launch of the Hololens 2 was a couple of days ago during MWC 2019. Even if I miss my days supporting Avanade booth in the MWC, we are incredibly connected today, so I feel like I was there during the launch. So I may recap some resources to — read more

Feb 26, 2019