Author / Paweł Łukasik

Microsoft Cognitive Services - Knowledge API

Continuing on Microsoft Cognitive API. Today lets find out about Knowledge API. In this category we can find services like: Academic Knowledge, Entity Linking, Knowledge Exploration, QnA maker and Recommendation API. Lets have a closer look at each of them. Academic Knowledge This API allows you to search through academic papers and retrieve information from […]

Visual Studio 2017 is here

Tomorrow is the launch day for Visual Studio 2017. This year marks also a 20th anniversary. Visual Studio 2017 If you are interested or a fan just go to https://launch.visualstudio.com where you can watch the live streaming of the whole event. There might be also a local event in your town so have a check at https://launch.visualstudio.com/local-events/ whether someone is hosting […]

We’ve already covered Vision and Speech API – now’s the turn for Language API. This part consists the most features that we could try. We can spell check with Bing, use Language Understanding Intelligence Service (LUIS) for understanding the commands from the users, or analyse the text with Linguistic Analytics API. What is also available […]

Microsoft Cognitive Services - Speech API

Apart from Vision API another interesting part of Cognitive Services is Speech API. Here we can use Bing Speech API to convert text to speech, custom speech API or Speaker Recognition API. Let’s look at the last one. Paweł ŁukasikFounder of Octal Solutions a .NET software house. Passionate dev, blogger, occasionally speaker, one of the leaders […]

Microsoft Cognitive Services - Vision API

Vision API allows us to get insights from images and videos. In this category we have services like: Computer Vision, Content Moderator as well as Emotion, Face and Video API. Computer Vision The most broad is Computer Vision. It allows to extract a set of features from images. We can get a general description of […]

Do you know what was the rant, a couple of months ago, about this picture? Or do you wonder how How-Old.net that calculates (correctly or not) your age works? If you are interested in – the read on. Paweł ŁukasikFounder of Octal Solutions a .NET software house. Passionate dev, blogger, occasionally speaker, one of the […]

Why my Visual Studio zoom is at 150%?

If you happen to see my Visual Studio at my normal day work you might notice that my font is big. Is my sight that bad? And it’s not that I’m sitting 10 meters from the screen. Not at all… Paweł ŁukasikFounder of Octal Solutions a .NET software house. Passionate dev, blogger, occasionally speaker, one […]

What is LuaFun?

Last time I was shortly describing LuaJIT a fast implementation of Lua Just-in-time compiler. This time lest quickly look at LuaFun library. Paweł ŁukasikFounder of Octal Solutions a .NET software house. Passionate dev, blogger, occasionally speaker, one of the leaders of Wroc.NET user group. Microsoft MVP. Podcaster – Ostrapila.pl

Farewell BlackBerry

My blackberry is not working. When I heard those words in the BBC One show I knew there would be something funny. And indeed it was. Unfortunately as of today I need to say those words too. My BB is dead. Paweł ŁukasikFounder of Octal Solutions a .NET software house. Passionate dev, blogger, occasionally speaker, […]