4 October 2022

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Power of Diffusion Models

In 2022, insanely beautiful and original images created with generative neural networks are taking the internet by storm. This post focuses on the theory behind diffusion models that underpin the core ideas of the latest generative AI. Brace yourself, this pos…

Closing down VitalFrog: 3 mistakes and 3 learnings - Blog by Simon Frey

TLDR; I am closing down my SEO/Website performance tool vitalfrog.com. Sadly I never managed to build it into a business with a working business model. Thanks for everyone supporting it! While writing this post I am listening to Der Traum ist aus by Ton Steine…

lolfi

The Internet has no shortage of blog posts from all sorts of people talking about the best ways to communicate online. You’ve seen them:

.NET Monthly Roundup - September 2022

Welcome to our September .NET Monthly Roundup with Jon Galloway! In just 3 minutes, Jon breaks down the latest news from the month of September 2022 that .NE...

Comparing files in Visual Studio

As developers, we often need to compare two files to find the differences. Sometimes, even comparing the content of the clipboard with a file on disk. And again, sometimes comparing our local changes to previous versions from our Git commit history.

git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

Pull Rust introductory support from Kees Cook: "The tree has a recent base, but has fundamentally been in linux-next for a year and a half[1]. It's been updated based on feedback from the Kernel Maintainer's Summit, and to gain recent Reviewed-by: tags. …

Production postmortem: Do you trust this server?

A customer called us with a problem. They set up a production cluster successfully, they could manually verify that everything is working, except that it wou...

Write barrier optimizations in regions

This is another blog entry about regions. As I mentioned in my last blog entry, regions on their own will naturally give us some perf…

Generating OCR Insight in Videos – the Story of a Successful Microsoft Collaboration

What is special about OCR for videos  Detecting and recognizing text within images are important tasks that fortunately can be addressed with available models. Specifically, the Read OCR model that was developed by the Microsoft Cognitive Services team, has am…

Universal rendering with Nuxt 3 and Azure Static Web Apps

Azure Static Web Apps automatically builds and deploys dozens of frontend frameworks, one of them is Nuxt. Today, we're excited to share that you can deploy Nuxt 3 applications with universal rendering to Azure Static Web Apps.   While Nuxt 2 is known for its …

Hacktoberfest 2022

Hacktoberfest: a month-long celebration of open-source projects, their maintainers, and the entire community of contributors.

ASP.NET Core 7 updates

Release candidate 1 of ASP.NET Core 7 is out for around two weeks and the release date isn't that far. Let's see what is in this version.

Effective Test Driven Development

I wrote a lot about Test Driven Development back in the days of the now defunct CodeBetter site. You can read a little of the old precursor content from this old MSDN Magazine article I wrote in 20…

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