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Xavier Geerinck

Lessons learned after being at Microsoft for 1 year

Lessons learned after being at Microsoft for 1 year

Today marks my 1st anniversary of working as a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, and wow what an exciting time it has been! But before I go deeper into my experiences and lessons learned, I first would like to start by thanking some people without whom all of this would

Predicting Instagram Pictures Likes and Comments with .NET Core and ML.NET

Predicting Instagram Pictures Likes and Comments with .NET Core and ML.NET

For a new fun Project, I wanted to create an Artificial Intelligence model that will allow me to predict the comments and likes of new pictures that a user can post on Instagram based on their own historical data. Luckily thanks to ML.NET which was released during build 2018,

Creating a throttled REST API Consumer

Creating a throttled REST API Consumer

A common thing in Node.js is to create a REST API consumer that will perform a REST call. Due to the rise of many REST APIs, you might find yourself in the situation that you want to execute 1000s of calls (for example: Azure Cognitive Services). Now due to

How To Bind C++ Code with Dotnet Core

How To Bind C++ Code with Dotnet Core

While you are working with compiled code, you often find yourself in the situation that every bit of performance count (just think about GPU intensive operations or even game engines). For this reason, we often turn back to coding C++ coding to be as low-level as possible (seeing that writing

Writing a C# SDK for the OpenAI Gym using .NET Core

Writing a C# SDK for the OpenAI Gym using .NET Core

When we take a look at the OpenAI Gym on Github (https://github.com/openai/gym-http-api), we see that it does not have bindings available for C#. Now since I am a firm believer of .NET Core and what it brings to developer ecosystem, I decided to write one myself

How-To write a C# SDK in .NET Core

How-To write a C# SDK in .NET Core

For interacting with OpenAI through C#, I decided to write one myself. But how do we get started writing a SDK? Getting started writing our SDK Deciding on the structure of your SDK First of all we need to decide on how we want to use it. This is a

How to get and update your profile picture in Active Directory (AD)

Updating your Profile Picture in Active Directory is often an annoying process with not enough tools available (or working) to do so. Luckily there are some handy powershell commands that we can use to update this quickly. Requirements First we need to enable the command that we want to use: