Deep Learning, NLP, NMT, AI, ML
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 PODCAST The GPT-x Revolution in Medicine, with Peter Lee Microsoft Research’s Peter Lee recently sat down to discuss the impact of GPT-4 and large language
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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 first part in a two-part series. Throughout the series, you’ll go step by step through the guided process of building a complete and working project. This will include […]
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Once you have a NumPy array, regardless of whether you’ve generated it randomly or obtained it from a more ordered source, there may be times when you need to select elements from it randomly or reorder its structure randomly. You’ll learn how to do this next. Selecting Array Elements Randomly Suppose you have a NumPy array of data collected from a survey, and you wish to use a random sample of its elements for analysis. The Generator object’s .choice() method […]
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So far, you’ve learned how to extract text and pages from PDFs and how to concatenate and merge two or more PDF files. These are all common operations with PDF files, but pypdf has many other useful features. In the following sections, you’ll learn how to rotate and crop pages in a PDF file. Rotating Pages With PageObject.rotate() You’ll start by learning how to rotate pages. For this example, you’ll use the ugly.pdf file in the practice_files/ folder. This file […]
Read moreAt some point in your Python journey, you may need to find the first item that matches a certain criterion in a Python iterable, such as a list or dictionary. The simplest case is that you need to confirm that a particular item exists in the iterable. For example, you want to find a name in a list of names or a substring inside a string. In these cases, you’re best off using the in operator. However, there are many […]
Read moreIntroduction Providing healthcare in remote or rural areas is challenging, particularly specialized medicine and surgical procedures. Patients may need to travel long distances just to get to medical facilities and to communicate with caregivers. They may not arrive in time to receive essential information before their medical appointments and may have to return home before they can receive crucial follow-up care at the hospital. Some patients may wait several days just to meet with their surgeon. This is a very […]
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