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Unlock IPython’s Magical Toolbox for Your Coding Journey

When you’re executing Python code, the standard Python shell that comes with your Python installation is a natural tool to use. However, as you progress in your coding journey, you might find yourself seeking more powerful functionalities than the standard REPL offers. Luckily, IPython offers an enhanced version of interactive Python that can supercharge your capabilities. Using the IPython shell is a fast way of learning Python and executing code without the need for a full-fledged integrated development environment (IDE), […]

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Thinking beyond audio: Augmenting headphones for everyday digital interactions

This research was accepted by and received a Best Paper Award during ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2023, which is dedicated to advancing the field of user-centered system design. Headphones are traditionally used to provide and manage audio experiences through physical controls and a range of sensors. Nonetheless, these controls and sensors have remained confined to audio input and output functionality, such as adjusting the volume or muting the microphone. Imagine if headphones could transcend their role as mere audio […]

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Python Pillow (PIL) Image Resize with Image.Resize() Function

Introduction Pillow (PIL) is a popular Python library for image processing tasks. One of its common functions is image.resize() which lets you resize the image easily. In this article, we will understand the syntax and various parameters of the pillow image resize function, along with multiple examples. Syntax of Pillow Image.resize()  The syntax of pillow image.resize() function is as follows – image.resize(size,    

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Mazes in Python Part 2: Storing and Solving

If you’re up for a little challenge and would like to take your programming skills to the next level, then you’ve come to the right place! In this hands-on video course, you’ll practice object-oriented programming, among several other good practices, while building a cool maze solver project in Python. This is the second part in a two-part series. Throughout the series, you’re going step by step through the guided process of building a complete and working project. This includes reading […]

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The easiest way to speed up Python with Rust

If you want to speed up some existing Python code, writing a compiled extension in Rust can be an excellent choice: In many situations, Rust code can run much faster than Python. Rust prevents most of the memory-management bugs that often occur in C, C++, and Cython code. There is a growing ecosystem of third-party Rust packages available, and unlike C and C++ it also has a built-in package manager and build system. However, if you just want to prototype […]

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Profiling in Python: How to Find Performance Bottlenecks

Do you want to optimize the performance of your Python program to make it run faster or consume less memory? Before diving into any performance tuning, you should strongly consider using a technique called software profiling. It may help you answer whether optimizing the code is necessary and, if so, which parts of the code you should focus on. Sometimes, the return on investment in performance optimizations just isn’t worth the effort. If you only run your code once or […]

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Renovating computer systems securely and progressively with APRON

This research paper was accepted by 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), which is dedicated to advancing the field of systems research. Whether they’re personal computers or cloud instances, it’s crucial to ensure that the computer systems people use every day are reliable and secure. The validity of these systems is critical because if storage devices containing important executables and data become invalid, the entire system is affected. Numerous events can jeopardize the validity of computer systems or the data […]

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Highlights from Machine Translation and Multilinguality in June 2023

Here are the preprints that I found the most interesting in June 2023. Exploring the Relationship between Alignment and Cross-lingual Transfer in Multilingual Transformers Folks from LORIA (a French research institute) and Posos (a French company) study the relationship between cross-lingual representation alignment and cross-lingual transfer. Here, alignment means what I would call language neutrality, i.e., that similar sentences should receive similar representation across languages. (Not alignment as the new word for finetuning language models to follow instructions, nor the […]

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Research Focus: Week of July 3, 2023

Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. In this article NEW RESEARCH The Best of Both Worlds: Unlocking the Potential of Hybrid Work for Software Engineers The era of hybrid work has created new challenges and opportunities  

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