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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been greeted with real excitement since their creation back in 2014 by Ian Goodfellow and his research team. Yann LeCun, Facebook’s Director of AI Research went as far as describing GANs as “the most interesting idea in the last 10 years in ML.” With all this excitement, however, it can […]

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Gone are the days when graphic design was solely focused on the obvious graphic elements of a product like its packaging and marketing materials. Today the impact of technology and the digital revolution is huge on how we communicate, the way we work, and even the way we socialize. Graphic design is no exception to […]

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Today, almost every company is trying to be data-driven in some sense or the other. Businesses across all the major verticals such as healthcare, telecommunications, banking, insurance, retail, education, etc. make use of data to better understand their customers, optimize their business processes and, ultimately, maximize their profits. This is a guest post sponsored by […]

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In software, data validation is a process that ensures the validity and integrity of user input and usually involves checking that that data is in the correct format and contains an acceptable value. In this Xamarin tutorial, you’ll learn how to implement it with Xamarin.Forms. This article is an excerpt from the book Mastering Xamarin.Forms, […]

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It’s not acknowledged enough that the real headache when it comes to software faults and performance problems isn’t so much the problems themselves, but instead the process of actually identifying those problems. Sure, problems might slow you down, but wading though your application code to actually understand what’s happened can sometimes grind engineering teams to […]

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SideTrade is an organization that is on a mission to transform customer engagement in the world of B2B marketing with the help of artificial intelligence. With its own AI technology – Aimie – it’s now in a strong position to carve out a niche for itself in a market that shows no signs of slowing […]

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Writing programs that work correctly at runtime can be challenging. This is because our assumptions about how our code will behave when executed are often wrong. Using Java’s assertions feature is one way to verify that your programming logic is sound. This tutorial introduces Java assertions. You’ll first learn what assertions are and how to […]

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Looking to meet enterprise needs in the machine learning space, Oracle is making its Tribuo Java machine learning library available free under an open source license. With Tribuo, Oracle aims to make it easier to build and deploy machine learning models in Java, similar to what already has happened with Python. Released under an Apache […]

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Java Development Kit 15, Oracle’s implementation of the next version of Java SE (Standard Edition), becomes available as a production release today, September 15, 2020. Highlights of JDK 15 include text blocks, hidden classes, a foreign-memory access API, the Z Garbage Collector, and previews of sealed classes, pattern matching, and records. JDK 15 is just […]

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 Python 3.9.0 is almost ready. This release, 3.9.0rc2, is the last planned preview before the final release of Python 3.9.0 on 2020-10-05. Get it here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390rc2/ In the mean time, we strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to prepare their projects for 3.9 compatibility during this phase. As always, report any issues to the Python bug tracker. Please keep in […]

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