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What is Type Inference? Suppose you want to store a person ID, say, 10, in a variable.  You would declare the variable like ...

I have spent the last two and a half years of my career focusing on a technology that, back then, was easily dismissible. So much that others in at my work doubted we could build a successful business around it ...

Data science and machine learning are not just buzz words of the moment but have rather transformed how business is conducted in today’s world. Incorporation of technology and digitization of almost every ...

Web scraping can be an invaluable skill to possess when working on data-related projects because many interesting analytics projects often start not with over-explored internal data, but with the treasure trove of ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a term widely used today to refer to an area of science that is getting not only a lot of attention from the common audience but also tons of research time and interest from Computer ...

In my decade of managing applied machine learning teams I've interviewed maybe a hundred people. Over that time, I've come to rely on two main questions. I'm going to tell you what they are ...

“Big Data Analytics” and “Cognitive” are probably the hottest topics going around in areas of IT, Business availability of information and run smart strategy seekers and providers. Very interesting here is ...

Azure automation runbooks can be used to do enable scale up of Virtual machines. The metrics associated with the VMs can be used to trigger a runbook for scaling VM to the next ...

What does happen when a data collection is copied and then the new copy is changed? Does the original remains the same, or does it changes too? If you think of copying as creating a completely ...

Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) is both a query and functional language. It made its first appearance back in 2009 as part of an add-in to Microsoft Excel 2010. The primary objective of DAX is to help organize, analyze ...

It’s all in the microwave: the problem, the needs, the decisions, the product solution, and the waste, the incredible waste.Do you own a microwave? You probably do. Take a short trip to your kitchen and have a look. ...

Let’s build a network out of simple electronic components and train it by adjusting the connection weights. My goal is to give you an interesting and fun introduction to this fascinating topic in an easy to understand ...

The term domain-specific languages, or DSL, refers to programming languages specialised for a particular purpose, as opposed to general purpose programming languages. Domain-specific languages ideally ...

Collecting user input from the wearable app is more challenging than doing so from the iOS app because watches have much smaller screens and the user typically wants to interact quickly ...

There are four kinds of computer bugs. Most students know only one. Most students think that if their program does what it is supposed to do every time in all reasonable situations, then the program is finished ...

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies ...

Last decade has seen an exponential growth in invention, simplification in the area of computation power & hardware cost. This has led to significant contribution for improvement of existing algorithms ...

Create a series of small fun games. Take the game concept you have and literally scale it down so that it would take you no more than 2-3 weeks to develop. If you cannot scale it down to that time frame​​​​​​​ ...

Why do a mere handful of cities attract startups and so many of them fail? What should aspiring startup cities do to boost their odds of success? I set out to answer these questions in my recently published book ...

Now days employees using, messaging, phone calls, emails and meeting increased drastically. Microsoft Teams provides all of that without compromising their application experience ...