Training a neural network to play Hangman without a dictionary
Authors: Mary Wahl, Shaheen Gauher, Fidan Boylu Uz, Katherine Zhao Summary We used reinforcement learning and CNTK to train a neural network to guess hidden words in a game of Hangman. Our trained...
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Microsoft Azure leads the industry in ISO certifications
We are happy to announce that Microsoft Azure recently completed a new set of independent third-party ISO and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) audits to expand our certification portfolio. Azure leads...
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Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – Deploying...
This post is part of the “Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between” multiple blog post series. In the previous posts for this series, I looked at the following topics:...
View ArticleNode-ChakraCore Update: N-API, Node.js on iOS and more
Today, we are happy to announce a new preview release of ChakraCore, based on Node.js 8, available for you to try on Windows, macOS, and Linux. We started our Node-ChakraCore journey with a focus on...
View ArticleThe R6 Class System
R is an object-oriented language with several object-orientation systems. There's the original (and still widely-used) S3 class system based on the "class" attribute. There's the somewhat stricter,...
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Introducing Support for Brotli Compression
This post was written by our software developer intern Denys Tsomenko, who worked on a Brotli compression library during his internship. Modern web-pages are getting larger and larger with huge CSS,...
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Peachpie – Open Source PHP Compiler to .NET and WordPress under ASP.NET...
The Peachpie PHP compiler project joined the .NET Foundation this week and I'm trying to get my head around it. PHP in .NET? PHP on .NET? Under .NET? What compiles to what? Why would I want this? How...
View ArticleLearn parallel programming in R with these exercises for “foreach”
The foreach package provides a simple looping construct for R: the foreach function, which you may be familiar with from other languages like Javascript or C#. It's basically a function-based version...
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How to Restart your App Programmatically
For some apps (especially games) it is not uncommon for the app to get into a state where it needs to restart – perhaps after a license update, after installing downloadable content, its caches have...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Rolling shutters, explained
I've written about the shutter effect a couple of times here on the blog, but this video from SmarterEveryDay provides the best explanation I've seen yet of why digital cameras can distort fast-moving...
View ArticleTrip report: Evolution Working Group at the Summer ISO C++ standards meeting...
The Summer 2017 ISO C++ standards meeting was held in July 10-15 at the University of Toronto. Many thanks to Google, Codeplay, and IBM for sponsoring the event, as well to folks from Mozilla, Collège...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.08.28
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES HOWTO: Check browser type and its version in your VSTS/TFS extensions –...
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Build apps faster with Azure Serverless
Azure’s Serverless offerings allow developers to build and deploy elastic-scale applications faster than ever. Serverless technology allows developers to focus on their apps rather than provisioning,...
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SIGGRAPH 2017: Microsoft Azure enables Secure Rendering with services and certs!
At SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles, CA this week (at the LA Convention Center), Microsoft is demoing the latest in Azure-based rendering services and partner solutions, as well as showcasing a new...
View ArticleMore free queries with Bing Custom Search Preview
We are excited to announce that we have increased the free query limit for Bing Custom Search Preview to 20,000 queries/month, allowing you to use more custom search queries for your applications....
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CodePush joins Visual Studio Mobile Center
About two years ago, a group of developers at Microsoft crafted a service for distributing Apache Cordova, React Native, and Windows Mobile updates to applications in the wild. They called it...
View ArticleHuman readable tests and build chaining in July’s VSTS extension round-up
Our community of publishers continues to grow and the contributions they’re making are great. This month I’ve got an extension for chaining build definitions together, and another that was written...
View ArticleHow to use H2O with R on HDInsight
H2O.ai is an open-source AI platform that provides a number of machine-learning algorithms that run on the Spark distributed computing framework. Azure HDInsight is Microsoft's fully-managed Apache...
View ArticleAnnouncing General Availability of Consumption and Charge APIs for Enterprise...
We are very pleased to announce the General Availability release of the Azure Consumption and Charge APIs that we previewed in May of this year. Enterprise customers can use these API’s to pull Azure...
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Teradata Bolsters Analytics and Database capabilities for Azure
This post is co-authored with Rory Conway, Product Manager, Teradata on Azure. The enterprise-class capabilities of Teradata Database have been enhanced for Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This is great...
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