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From Ancient Greeks to Modern Geeks - Basic Machine Learning AlgorithmsNDC Manchester 20252025-12-01
Covers Naive Bayes, linear and logistic regression, k‑nearest neighbours and decision trees with concrete examples and code on GitHub, implemented in Excel…
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"Would YOU Survive the Titanic?", with ML and .NETNDC Copenhagen 20252025-09-08
Uses Visual Studio 2022 and C# with ML.NET to solve Kaggle's Titanic challenge, starting with Jupyter/VS Code for EDA (pandas, matplotlib) then building ML.NET…
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Thinking Functionally with C#NDC Oslo 20252025-05-19
Argues C# can be used as a practical functional language: replace for/foreach with LINQ Select/Zip/Aggregate and IEnumerable.Range, prefer switch expressions /…
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Hack the Planet! What Movies can Teach Us about InfoSecNDC Security 20252025-01-20
Cinematic examples map to concrete failures: a 1965 fraud scheme creates fake companies and dodges auditing because a single blue security light is trusted…
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Thinking Functionally with C#Øredev 20242024-11-06
Claims that C# can be written functionally for more predictable, testable code and shows concrete patterns: use LINQ aggregate and zip instead of for loops…
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"Would YOU Survive the Titanic?", with ML and .NETØredev 20242024-11-06
Uses Visual Studio and C# with ML.NET to train on the Kaggle Titanic CSV, showing a concrete pipeline: clean missing ages, drop cabins, extract titles and…
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A Developer Goes to the MoviesNDC Porto 20242024-10-14
Chronicles film examples and concrete claims: the first on‑screen autonomous machine is from Metropolis (1924) machine person, Destination Moon shows a real…
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Down the Oregon Trail with Functional C#Copenhagen Developers Festival 20232023-08-28
Reimplements the 1975 Oregon Trail in C# as a playable, testable system, claiming near 100% unit test coverage and enforcing no mutable variables and almost no…
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Functional Programming with C#NDC London 20232023-01-23
Shows how to write functional C# using only built‑in features: LINQ and IEnumerable, Func delegates, extension methods, switch expressions, records and init…
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Pride & Prejudice & C#NDC London 20232023-01-23
C# Markov chains read Pride and Prejudice from Project Gutenberg, split into sentences, replaced punctuation with spaced tokens, and treat 2-word state pairs…
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Down the Oregon Trail with Functional C#NDC Oslo 20222022-09-26
Recreates the 1975 Oregon Trail by rewriting ~5k lines of HP Time‑Share BASIC into modern C# and ships a playable console version; enforces near 100% unit test…
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Down the Oregon Trail with Functional C#NDC Melbourne 20222022-06-20
Reimplements the 1975 Oregon Trail BASIC source in modern C#, producing a playable, testable clone that preserves original flow and random events. Uses…
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Functional Programming with C#NDC Porto 20222022-04-25
Shows how to implement functional patterns using only stock C# features and small helpers: LINQ for immutable transforms, record with 'with' expressions to…
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Functional Programming with C#NDC Oslo 20202020-06-08
Shows how to get real functional patterns out of plain C# using LINQ, IEnumerable, Func delegates, extension methods and C# 8 pattern matching, with concrete…
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Functional Programming with JavaScriptfoss-north 20202020-03-22
Explains how JavaScript uses Ramda to make functional patterns practical: shows a CSV parser that extracts titles from 1963 Doctor Who data, a curried…
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