Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week, Sam Nasr returns to the show. Sam is an IT Consultant specializing in .Net, SQL Server, and Azure. He is a Sr. Software Engineer focused on the Microsoft stack of technologies including .Net, SQL Server, Azure. As part of NIS Technologies, he provides consulting services, training, and custom app development to bring more value to business applications. Sam is also a leader at the Cleveland C#/VB .Net user group.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Topics of Discussion:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[2:37] Sam talks about getting inspiration from a video featuring Saquib Shaikh, a blind software engineer at Microsoft that developed services that helped him get by day-to-day, which was made public. It was a moving video and it got him into cognitive services, and he started diving more into AI and ML from that point.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[4:10] How are AI and machine learning similar? How are they different?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[4:15] Do you have to use the Azure services?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[6:27] What are some of Sam’s favorite AI or ML products?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[8:03] With Azure Cognitive Services, it’s a variety of different services. There are some for language, some for speech, some for vision, and decision-making.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[10:19] How do we go from a microphone to a text string? Does that happen on the end device, or do we send the file to Azure?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[15:10] What is the testing method for this type of application?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[18:09] How does this relate to bot framework?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[24:28] What applications does it tend to work best on?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[26:50] What does it look like to deploy a new release candidate from environment to environment and then to production? What is the promotion process of an application like this?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[30:39] You need to have a good representation of your data. It’s got to be clean and then trained on an appropriate number of records.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Mentioned in this Episode:</strong></p> <p><a href="http://architecttips.clearmeasure.com/"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Architect Tips</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">— New video podcast!</span></p> <p><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/services/devops/?&OCID=AID736756_SEM_7eul5uID"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Azure DevOps</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.clear-measure.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Clear Measure</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Sponsor)</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/NET-DevOps-Azure-Developers-Architecture/dp/1484253426"> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way,</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by Jeffrey Palermo</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">— Available on Amazon!</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ROXy08zc-qTA0-3GAQDLw"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Jeffrey Palermo’s YouTube</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/jeffreypalermo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow to stay informed about future events!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Want to Learn More?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visit</span> <a href="http://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">AzureDevOps.Show</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for show notes and additional episodes.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Sam Naser:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/SamNasr"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GitHub projects</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU4ffaIzhsvMr_cCt9kjQMw"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> YouTube</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU4ffaIzhsvMr_cCt9kjQMw"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Presentations</span></a></p> <p><a href="mailto:samnasr@live.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">samnasr@live.com</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://samnasr.blogspot.com/2022/01/overview-of-cognitive-services.html"> <strong>Overview of Cognitive Services: </strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGiaM8jM7xk"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Adding Machine Learning to .Net Applications”</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGiaM8jM7xk"><span style="font-weight: 400;">youtube.com/watch?v=dMHlbZvISUI</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jsLsi6MEyk"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build 2016 AI Video</span></a></p>
