They say to never write a negative review of a book until it has received too many positive ones. Which brings us to “Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress,” by Steven Pinker.

The tl;dr is that he doesn’t actually argue this case, he just …

fun-ny Faces : Face-based Augmented Reality with F# and the iPhone X

Each year, the F# programming community creates an advent calendar of blog posts, coordinated by Sergey Tihon on his blog. This is my attempt to battle Impostor Syndrome and share something that might be of interest to the community …

1. Create element without an explicit Frame.
2. Set TranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntroConstraints = false
3. Create an array of NSLayoutConstraints
4. Work top-to-bottom, left-to-right, or vice versa. Do this consistently throughout program
5. Use Layout Anchors
6. Use the top-level UIViews SafeAreaLayoutGuide to position relative to the Window / screen
7. For each dimension, set its location (LeadingAnchor / TopAnchor or …

The best Tensorflow is the one you have on your machine.

In my opinion, the bottleneck on a DNN solution is not training, but data preparation and iterating your model to the point where it's reasonable to start investing kilowatt-hours of electricity to the training. So I have Tensorflow on …

Sunday rant: I have a 2016 Dell XPS (high-end) laptop. I bought a Dell 25" 4K monitor. And on Friday received a Dell Thunderbolt dock for the monitor. I plug it all together and although the monitor displays wonderfully, the dock is not passing USB through. So I start fiddling …

Although I am pretty deeply entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, the recently-announced \$50 Dot was so inexpensive I could not resist checking it out. (Before I go further: I work for Microsoft, so take that into account as you see fit.)

Out of the box, the Echo is very easy …

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I remember a time when "learning about computers" invariably started with the phrase "computers only operate on 0s and 1s…" Things could vary a little for a few minutes, but then you'd get to the meat of things: Boolean logic. "All computer programs are formed from these 'logic gates'…"

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Raise your hand if you've ever struggled with getting your app's bundle identifier, info.plist, and entitlements.plist to match up with your provisioning profile.

I tried to explain provisioning profiles using the ten-hundred most common words, but in slightly-less-common words, a development prov-pro associates: A team, a developer, an …

If you're developing for iOS 10 and your app "silently" crashes (especially if it's an older app), the culprit could well be the increased privacy requirements in iOS 10. Namepaces such as HomeKit now require specific privacy-related keys to be in your info.plist (for instance, NSHomeKitUsageDescription). If you don't …