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Many years ago I switched to using OneNote (part of Microsoft Office) for taking notes, as opposed to Word. After all, that is what OneNote is designed for, whereas Word is designed to be a general word processing tool. If you put your notes in Word, you have to use ...

Further to my previous post about Blazor see here ) I am excited about the forthcoming release of version 3.0 of .NET Core by Microsoft, expected in September 2019. In particular, not only will this version include Blazor, but it will include support for machine learning. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt848631.aspx says: NET Core ...

Yesterday I completed what I have found to be the most demanding course so far on the Microsoft Professional Program for Artificial Intelligence , Reinforcement Learning Explained . It took me 66.5 hours (more than twice as long as previous edX courses have taken me) and my final mark was ...

Further to this post , I'm very pleased to have been re-elected to the Council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries for what will now be my third term (for 3 years from 2019 to 2022). Many thanks to all those who supported me, and indeed all those who ...

I recently completed the above Microsoft/edX course (full details of the course are here ) with a final mark of 92%. This was my 8th course on the Microsoft Professional Program for Artificial Intelligence, I plan to do my 9th course ( Reinforcement Learning Explained ) during the rest of ...

I recently completed the above Microsoft/edX course (full details of the course are here ) with a final mark of 95%. Why is DevOps important? Huge increases in efficiency for tech companies #DevOps is the art and science of trying to automate/streamline as much as possible many stages (i.e. humans ...

Further to this post about my standing for Council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, I am very pleased to announce that today I have rejoined the Committee of the Wessex Actuarial Society as its President. I look forward to working with the rest of the Committee and the ...

I was very pleased to complete this program (a series of 10 courses) in April 2019, working in my spare time. Overview The 10 courses were: Microsoft Professional Orientation: Big Data (completed Oct 2017) Analyse and Visualize Data (completed on the Data Science program in July 2017) Work with NoSQL ...

Further to my previous post with tips about doing online edX courses, where I recommended downloading the transcript files of key course videos, you will usually find that by default when you copy and paste the content of the text (.txt) files into your (OneNote) notes, they aren't formatted very ...

I have now taken 24 online edX courses, mainly on #DataScience, #BigData and #AI. The pass mark on these has been 70%, but being a bit of a perfectionist, I have always tried for 100%. (After all, would you really want an airline pilot who got things right 70% of ...