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Better Code Reviews FTW!NDC Copenhagen 20252025-09-08
Gives ten concrete tactics that change code reviews from painful to useful: make PRs small and include a short context and test logs, automate boring bits with…
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We are the Guardians of our FutureNDC London 20252025-01-27
Shows concrete failures and fixes: a model claims 90% accuracy at detecting criminals using logistic regression/KNN and a biased CalGang ground truth that even…
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LLMs gone wildCPH DevFest 20242024-08-26
Shows why retrieval augmented generation (RAG) often fails in production: embedding mismatch, bad chunking, messy PDFs and images, stale vector indexes, and…
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LLMs gone wildNDC Oslo 20242024-06-10
Shows how retrieval augmented generation is built end-to-end: chunking Markdown docs, creating embeddings with OpenAI, storing them in Asher AI Search, and…
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Better Code Reviews FTW!NDC London 20242024-01-29
Argues that code reviews are for sharing patterns, building shared ownership and faster solutions, not for scorekeeping; presents 10 concrete practices: ask…
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Fun with AlgorithmsNDC London 20232023-01-23
Covers concrete algorithms and when to use them: binary search (1–100 → 7 tries, 1M → ~20, 1T → ~29) and using Python’s bisect for non‑manual divides; graph…
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Fun with AlgorithmsNDC Oslo 20222022-09-26
Shows that binary search cuts a million-item search to ~20 steps and a 10 million search to 29, and applies it to a banana problem with up to 10,000 piles and…
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Debugging .NET AppsNDC Oslo 20212021-11-29
Demo-heavy troubleshooting that locates who holds memory and why it is not reclaimed, using concrete commands and artifacts: dotnet-counters to spot growing GC…
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.NET Days Online. Day 1JetBrains .NET Days Online 20212021-05-11
Seven demos show what actually changes your stack: a custom Source Generators tool that replaces thousands of boilerplate lines (and can emit generated files…
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CSI .NET – Debugging .NET ApplicationsJetBrains .NET Days Online 20212021-05-11
Simulated leaks show 20,000 Product objects holding ~400 MB in char arrays; investigation uses dotnet-counters, dotnet-gcdump and dotnet-dump to create heap…
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From C# to Python – 10 Things I Learned Along the WayJetBrains .NET Days Online 20202020-05-13
Ten concrete practices: use PyCharm or VS Code with the Python extension, enforce style with black + flake8 and run them via pre-commit, test with pytest…
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We are the Guardians of our FutureNDC London 20202020-01-27
Researchers train a model on the California gang database that includes babies and 25% false entries and it still flags people as gang members; another paper…
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We are the guardians of our futureNDC Oslo 20192019-06-17
A paper trains a model on the California gang database that feeds text and a biased roster and finds many false positives — about 25% of listed people lack…
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A practical guide to deep learningNDC Oslo 20192019-06-17
Walks through building real systems: uses Keras with convolutional layers and VGG embeddings per frame to classify five‑second soccer clips, combines audio…
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Panel discussion on the future of .NETNDC London 20192019-01-30
Covers concrete moves in the .NET ecosystem: WPF and WinForms on .NET Core 3 enabling desktop apps to use new runtime features, a cited 2.4 million active…
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A practical guide to deep learningNDC London 20192019-01-30
A practical pipeline builds a Chihuahua vs muffin classifier from web images using Keras: roughly 500 images per class, train/validation/test splits, on-batch…
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A developers guide to Machine LearningNDC Oslo 20182018-06-11
Begins with practical steps: frame a sharp question, gather and clean data, transform features, pick algorithms, train and test, deploy. Demonstrates with…
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A developers guide to Machine LearningNDC London 20182018-01-15
Begins as a practical beginner’s guide: gathers real Swedish house listings, makes scatterplots, fits linear regression and then decision-forest ensembles, and…
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Beyond step-by step debugging in Visual StudioNDC Oslo 20172017-06-14
Shows how to diagnose crashes, hangs, high CPU and leaks using real commands and examples: capture dumps with Task Manager, procdump or DebugDiag, inspect…
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Deep .NET DebuggingNDC London 20172017-01-16
Memory-dump debugging solves crashes, hangs, leaks and perf blips by showing the actual failing exception, roots and heap growth. Reproduced examples: an…
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A developers guide to the UX GalaxyØredev 20162016-11-07
Presents Microsoft Research’s concrete checklist called tenets and traps, distilled from roughly a century of UI research, and shows it predicting and catching…
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A developers guide to the UX galaxyNDC Sydney 20162016-08-01
A practical method called tenets and traps surfaces nine concrete attributes of good UX and the common failures that break them, packaged as a deck of cards…
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