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Recap of the 2015 Microsoft TechReady Conference | James D. McCaffrey
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James D. McCaffrey. Software Research, Development, Testing, and Education. Graphing the t-Distribution Probability Density Function using Excel →. Recap of the 2015 Microsoft TechReady Conference. August 5, 2015. The main idea of TechReady is for Microsoft employees, in particular those who work in the field with customers, to learn about Microsoft tools, technologies and products. This category of employees includes those who work in IT, Sales, Marketing, Support, and many other disciplines. Many of th...
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Eric's Crunchy Chase Logs: February 2015
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Eric's Crunchy Chase Logs. Friday, February 6, 2015. Musings and pictures from my Seattle Trip, January 2015. Greetings from 35,000 feet, somewhere over Oregon. I have been lucky enough over my personal and professional career to have traveled to many places across this great country and world. Recently, I found myself able to go to Seattle for a very important conference. From the top of the Space Needle, just as the sun was getting ready to set. Where the fog meets the city. Wait, it gets better! After...
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Azure SB Lite … finally on Nuget ! | DEVEXPERIENCE
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Paolo Patierno's Blog. Azure SB Lite … finally on Nuget! Finally my Azure SB Lite. Library is online on Nuget. But … it was a long story🙂. The last month, I decided to put this library on Nuget for all people that don’t like to compile source code from CodePlex and want to use it immediately. When I tried to upload the package, I received the “package id alredy used” error! Is there another library with same name? After few minutes I found that Sebastian Brandes. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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James D. McCaffrey | Software Research, Development, Testing, and Education | Page 2
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James D. McCaffrey. Software Research, Development, Testing, and Education. Newer posts →. My Talk About Prediction Markets. August 18, 2016. I gave a talk about Prediction Markets at Microsoft Research. In a Prediction Market, experts buy and sell shares of future outcomes and get money if their prediction is correct. For example, suppose you have 12 experts and you want to predict the outcome of a political election between candidates Adams, Baker, and Cogan. August 17, 2016. The Visual Studio Live con...
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K-Means++ Data Clustering | James D. McCaffrey
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James D. McCaffrey. Software Research, Development, Testing, and Education. Recap of the 2015 Seattle PyData Conference. Recap of the 2015 Microsoft TechReady Conference →. August 4, 2015. I wrote an article titled “K-Means Data Clustering” in the August 2015 issue of Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine. See https:/ msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt185575. To summarize, there are several algorithms to group data. The most common algorithm is called k-means. The k-means algorithm is very sensitive to its...Recap...
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Recap of the 2015 OSCON (Open Source Conference) in Portland | James D. McCaffrey
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James D. McCaffrey. Software Research, Development, Testing, and Education. The Java Substring Function vs. the C# Substring Function. Mini-Batch Neural Network Training →. Recap of the 2015 OSCON (Open Source Conference) in Portland. July 24, 2015. I was somewhat surprised at how many non-technical talks there were. I’m not a fan of listening to things like “Build Your Open Source Resume” and “Selling Open Source 101”, but I’ll bet many attendees do like such topi...The bottom line is that I highly reco...
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Graphing the t-Distribution Probability Density Function using Excel | James D. McCaffrey
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James D. McCaffrey. Software Research, Development, Testing, and Education. Recap of the 2015 Microsoft TechReady Conference. My Top Ten Favorite Movies Featuring Flying Saucers →. Graphing the t-Distribution Probability Density Function using Excel. August 9, 2015. I wrote a C# program that printed out values of t and the associated values of the t-distribution function, copied those values into Excel, and used the values to display a graph. I could have computed the values directly in Excel but the...
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The Java Substring Function vs. the C# Substring Function | James D. McCaffrey
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James D. McCaffrey. Software Research, Development, Testing, and Education. Neural Networks with WEKA Quick Start Tutorial. Recap of the 2015 OSCON (Open Source Conference) in Portland →. The Java Substring Function vs. the C# Substring Function. July 21, 2015. Notice that when the first parameter is 0, the Java and C# functions give the same result. But if the first parameter is not 0, the Java and C# functions give different results. Static string JavaStyleSubstring(string s, int beginIndex, int endInd...
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Recap of the 2015 Seattle PyData Conference | James D. McCaffrey
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James D. McCaffrey. Software Research, Development, Testing, and Education. Mini-Batch Neural Network Training. K-Means Data Clustering →. Recap of the 2015 Seattle PyData Conference. July 31, 2015. I spoke at the 2015 PyData Conference from July 24-26 in Redmond, Washington (near Seattle). I estimate there were about 1,000 attendees. The PyData Conference is all about the use of the Python programming language for data analysis. See http:/ seattle.pydata.org/. The swarm optimization talk was very well r...