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Xavier Geerinck

So you want to become a leader? Review my lessons learned from the top leaders and roles in technology

So you want to become a leader? Review my lessons learned from the top leaders and roles in technology

While working at Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect in Data Platform, one of the things we constantly thrive for is improving ourselves and our customers by spreading our energy and passion. A way to improve this is by focusing on our growth path to see which skills we lack

Abusing the Bing Search API to get access to Data and Visualize it

Abusing the Bing Search API to get access to Data and Visualize it

Introduction These days it's all about the privacy of users, API access to all platforms is being limited and locked down, so that developers are not able to abuse this anymore. This of course works well, but there is still one thing I think they overlooked: Crawlers! Just

Getting started with Xamarin Forms v3.0

Getting started with Xamarin Forms v3.0

Xamarin Forms has been updated to Version 3 on the 7th of May. If you are not aware of Xamarin.Forms, it is a cross-platform mobile development technology allowing you to write code once and run it on both Android and iOS. More information about this release can be found

OpenAI Gym Problems - Solving the CartPole Gym

OpenAI Gym Problems - Solving the CartPole Gym

In a previous post we set-up the OpenAI Gym to interface with our Javascript environment. Let's now look at how we can use this interface to run the CartPole example and solve it with the theory that we learned in previous blog posts. Requirements: * An introduction to Reinforcement

Dividing numbers into equal buckets or bins through Bucketization

Dividing numbers into equal buckets or bins through Bucketization

A common practice in Reinforcement Learning is to go from a continuous space towards a discrete space. What does this mean? Take for example a range of numbers between $]-3, 3[$, if we want to represent all the numbers that fit in this range as a state then we would

Getting started with Azure Functions

Getting started with Azure Functions

So I wanted to write a function for a customer that would trigger a bot. What I thought would be an easy process, turned out to be a lot of debugging and tuning to get everything working. Which is why I decided to write this post to help others get

Getting started with DotNet Core

Getting started with DotNet Core

I wanted to get started with Machine Learning, but rather than using Tensorflow, I wanted to take a different approach and use ML.NET. Now you might ask yourself: "Why use .NET if you have something such as Tensorflow in Python?". Well, my preference goes towards languages containing