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Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
Microsoft is releasing the tools their own in house researchers use in their Artificial Intelligence work to the community. The CNTK (Computational Network Toolkit) has proved to be the most efficient effort yet at helping computers understand speech. Bringing this out to the community is a big win for developers interested in AI.
Project Rider Demo at NDC 2016
Following the recent announcement of Project Rider, a demo was presented at the NDC 2016 London developer conference... and we got our hands on it!
Process
Speedup your code navigation by Bookmarking your code in Visual Studio
Did you know you could bookmark code in your solution?
Code
Will the C# compiler optimizations break this code?
A post on the intricacies of compiler optimizations and the hidden side effects of finalizers.
Installing the Unreal Engine in Visual Studio
Visual Studio has partnered with some of the most popular game engines to bring you an easy acquisition experience for game development tools.
Build
Introducing Paket, a package manager for .NET
Paket is a package manager for .NET languages, intended to be an alternative for the popular NuGet.
Community Projects
Ragnar
Ragnar is a CLI wrapper for Rasterbar's libtorrent, a popular, feature complete C++ bittorrent implementation focusing on efficiency and scalability.
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