The “Billion Dollar Mistake”—null content—has plagued C# developers since version 1.0. NullReferenceException is the most common runtime error. C# 8.0 introduces Nullable Reference Types (NRT), a feature that moves null checking from runtime to compile time. This is not just a syntax change; it’s a fundamental shift in how we write safety-critical C# code. How […]
Read more →Category: Emerging Technologies
Emerging technologies include a variety of technologies such as educational technology, information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, cognitive science, psychotechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
Context Distillation Methods: Extracting Signal from Long Documents
Introduction: Long contexts contain valuable information, but they also contain noise, redundancy, and irrelevant details that consume tokens and dilute model attention. Context distillation extracts the essential information from lengthy documents, conversations, or retrieved passages, producing compact representations that preserve what matters while discarding what doesn’t. This technique is crucial for RAG systems processing multiple […]
Read more →Image Classification vs Pattern Recognition vs Object Detection vs Object Tracking–A Primer
It is a common question that has been asked in all Artificial Intelligence Conference or Discussion Forums. Based on my knowledge, I thought of answering some of these questions: 1.) Image Classification (also called Image Recognition): is the process of creating a thematic image where each pixel is assigned a number representing a class / […]
Read more →Azure Cognitive Services–Experience Image Recognition using Custom Vision (Build an Harrison Ford Classifier)
Custom Vision Service as part of Azure Cognitive Services landscape of pretrained API services, provides you an ability to customize the state-of-the-art Computer Vision models for your specific use case. Using custom vision service you can upload set of images of your choice and categorize them accordingly using tags/categories and automatically train the image recognition […]
Read more →Azure Cosmos DB – TTL (Time to Live) – Reference Usecase
TTL capability within Azure Cosmos DB is a live saver, as it would take necessary steps to purge redudent data based on the configurations you may. Let us think in terms of an Industrial IoT scenario, devices can produce vast amounts of telemetry information, logs and user session information that is only useful until we […]
Read more →Azure Database for MariaDB: Public Preview
During Ignite 2018, Microsoft has announced the availability of Maria DB support in Azure Database services. Today it has been opened for Public Preview for all Azure customers. What is MariaDB? MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system intended to remain free under the GNU GPL.Development is led by some […]
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