In the first part of this series, we created a knowledge base for our chatbot. Now it’s time to consume that knowledge base. When we’re done, the chatbot can be hosted on a variety of solutions and ways. For example, we could embed it within Microsoft Teams, GroupMe,...
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Good Leadership Is About...
Don’t Panic Labs and Doane University are proud to announce that their software education initiative – called the Nebraska Dev Lab Pipeline Program – has completed its inaugural cohort, and its participants are transitioning to their sponsor organizations as software...
Given that you want to create a QnA-style chat, then Azure has a solution for you. Chatbots are becoming more and more common, but building one from scratch seems terribly complicated. Just the natural language processing alone would be a monumental task. And when you...
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. 6 CEOs on the most unexpected...
Text analysis is very important for many businesses and can provide a wealth of useful information. Traditionally, having a system that did this meant developing a text analysis system from scratch. With many services providing text analysis as a service (such as...
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. The surprising way to build a...
Automating the retrieval of content from HTML pages isn’t something that often comes up, but it does happen. Sometimes people even want to screen scrape their own systems as a way of integration (which is not always the best idea). This automated retrieval of...
What am I looking forward to in 2021? The number one for everyone is the hope that COVID-19 comes to an end. I want to get back to working with my coworkers in person. While being virtual has been okay, I don’t think it is nearly as good as being in the same...
Remote education does work We did a lot of teaching in 2020. It wasn’t always pretty, but we improved a lot and I feel pretty good about it. Remote work can work, but not as well as in-person We made remote work work, but it was at times a struggle. I’m...
