Willem's Fizzy Logic

Fairlearn: The secret to teaching your models to play fair

Microsoft just announced a new suite of tools around Responsible AI during the Microsoft Build conference. One of the tools that they announced is fairlearn. A new python package that will help you build fair models. Let's see the secret sauce to building fair models.

Web development

Building and publishing .NET Core Micro-services to Kubernetes using Azure DevOps

The last week I spend quite a bit of time figuring out the best way to deploy micro-services on Kubernetes with Azure DevOps. At first it felt quite hard, because

Web development

Integrating Blazor in an existing ASP.NET Core application

Blazor offers a unique development model that allows you to write client-side web app logic in C#, Skip the javascript misery and learn how to integrate Blazor into an existing ASP.NET Core app.

Developers life

Recording screencasts: My experiences

So, I've begun recording screencasts about ML.NET and will probably record more about other topics. How did I do it, and can you do the same?

Machine Learning

ML.NET Tutorial: Getting started with ML.NET

Microsoft built a new machine learning library a while ago. It allows C# engineers that want to take their machine learning to a higher level to build custom models rather

Web development

Snapshot testing react components using Jest

Testing a single page application can be quite hard when it comes to validating the HTML that is generated by your components. Snapshot testing can be quite helpful, especially in

Data

Deploy a modern data warehouse with resource manager templates in minutes

Want to quickly try out a modern data warehouse scenario on Azure? Use these templates to get your modern data warehouse set up in minutes.

Machine Learning

It's time to get a faster, cleaner anaconda

Why I downloaded massive anaconda binaries in the past is beyond me to be honest. I like to use virtual environments, so almost none of the stuff in the base

Machine Learning

Automate machine learning model selection in Azure Machine Learning Service

Azure Machine Learning Service is getting better every day. The newly added Automated ML feature in the workspace portal sure is a great addition that you should definitely check out. Here's how it works.

Machine Learning

Get a great deal in my e-book!

Want to get your hands dirty with Microsoft CNTK and deep learning? Packt is running a great deal on my book, you can now get it for just $10.

Machine Learning

Using transfer-learning for easier image classification models in CNTK | How-to

Trying to train a neural network to classify images is a challenge. You need a large amount of data and compute power to train models from scratch. Customers that I've

Developers life

Should you be writing a book next?!

At last my book is done and soon coming to an online book store near you. It's been 4 months in the making and I spend a lot of time writing it. I feel relieved that it's done and I'm a little anxious what people will think. I had a lot of fun writing it. Should you be writing a book too?

Web development

Chilling out with BDD

We all know how hard it is to write understandable and maintainable tests for our code. It's always nice to have a little help from a testing framework. ChillBDD is a tool that helps you structure your tests to follow BDD practices.

Web development

Deploying resources on Azure with Terraform

In december we've built a chatbot on Azure. We're currently deploying it directly from Azure DevOps with great ease. The only problem, the infrastructure isn't managed at all. Hard problem? Not really...

Developers life

Building a custom mechanical keyboard - Part 2

Building your own mechanical keyboard, to some this sounds weird others have done it. It's definitely a first for me, so I decided to do a write up on this

Developers life

Building a custom mechanical keyboard - Part 1

I've always been a huge fan of mechanical keyboards. Personally I use the daskeyboard mechanical keyboard. It's a clicky, loud typing beast. Great for writing books and blogposts and occasional programming when I get to it. But I want something different. I decided to build an Iris custom keyboard.

Machine Learning

It's easier than ever to add machine learning to your C# program. Use ML.NET!

In the past machine learning was something exclusively for the pythonistas or data scientists that knew how to use Python or R and had studied statistics. Not anymore, it has become a lot easier for developers to use machine learning. This also goes for .NET developers.

Developers life

Learn how to quickly generate REST clients from Open API Specification files

Often when you work with REST endpoints the makers of these endpoints expose swagger (Open API Specification) files. Many developers however still handcode their clients. Not only is this bad. Here's a better way to generate your clients.

3D printing

We bought our first 3D Printer and had a massive learning experience!

A few weeks ago my wife asked me for a 3D printer. She wanted to make art and small things around the house. Two weeks ago we spend a whole evening researching and comparing 3D printers and design software. It turns out to be quite an adventure and we learned a lot along the way.

Machine Learning

3 Must-have tools if you're serious about machine learning

When working on machine learning problems I find that productivity is sometimes somewhat low, because I have to spend a lot of time working on tedious bits that probably can be automated away. Over time I have found quite a few tools that help me get better results faster. Here's three of them.

Machine Learning

What to learn if you want to become a Microsoft certified machine learning engineer

Microsoft now offers a new MCSA certification for people that want to expand into the world of machine learning. Here's a run down of the exams and what you will need to learn to earn this certification.

Machine Learning

What I've learned getting my colleagues up to speed with AI

How do you start with AI when you're a developer and have no idea where to begin? Organize a workshop for your colleagues and challenge them to start exploring machine learning. I certainly learned a ton while organizing the AI learning experience. It was a lot of fun.

Machine Learning

I'm building my own deep learning framework and that's crazy

I've embarked on my hardest and most fun adventure ever. I'm going to implement my own deep learning framework. I know most people will call me crazy. But I think this is a challenge that was long coming and I finally got around to it. Wonder why? Read on.

Chatbots

Learn how to build a bot with the new Microsoft Bot Builder Java SDK

Bot builder from Microsoft has been around for a couple of years now. During Microsoft Build 2018 a preview of version 4.0 was launched with support for more languages. Previously you could only build a bot in C# or Node. Now you can build one in Java too. Here's how.

Machine Learning

Learn how automatically tag images with the Computer Vision API

When you're not into building your own machine learning models or neural networks, but still want to do something with AI to recognize images, then Microsoft has you covered with the Computer Vision API as part of their Cognitive Services. Wonder how to use it? Learn it here.