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Azure Face, Part 4: Is Doug Happy?
When looking at a photo, we can often tell how happy a person is, or you can at least make a good guess. But determining if a person is happy based on facial expressions is no longer just for humans. Azure’s Face API also supports letting Azure make that guess. Let’s dive in and see…
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DPL Reading List – September 25, 2020
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. How to refresh your work-from home-routine for the next season…
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Azure Face, Part 3: Doug vs Bill
In my previous post, we wrote some code to determine if we had Doug in an image. But we were not comparing Doug against anyone else. Now it’s time to make a small tweak to train the system to recognize Doug when we give it an image of someone else – like Bill. The code…
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DPL Reading List – September 18, 2020
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. 5G in rural areas bridges a gap that 4G doesn’t,…
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Azure Face, Part 2: Is Doug, Doug?
Azure’s Face API is pretty amazing. In my previous blog post, we saw that Face can identify a human face in any image we feed it. In this blog post, we will find Doug’s in a picture. We won’t test this very extensively here; we are going to start with a pretty simple example. The…
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Nebraska Dev Lab Accepting 2021 Applications, First Cohort Tackles Capstone Project
Don’t Panic Labs and Doane University are proud to announce that their software education initiative – called the Nebraska Dev Lab Pipeline Program – is accepting applications for sponsor companies and participants to take part in its next cohort set to begin January 2021. The Nebraska Dev Lab Pipeline Program is an immersive nine-month software…
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DPL Reading List – September 11, 2020
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. Researchers capture the world’s first 3,200-megapixel digital photo – The…
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Azure Face, Part 1
Azure is pretty amazing. It has services for almost everything. And did you know that Azure even has the ability to recognize faces? Azure Face is a pretty fantastic facial recognition service. Ten years ago, it would have seemed almost magical. But today, you can recognize faces in images using a cloud service with very…
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DPL Reading List – September 4, 2020
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. One thing that the pandemic could be changing? Meeting lengths…
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A Capstone Project for Good: Teamwork, Communication, and Success
If you keep up with the happenings of Don’t Panic Labs, you’re likely aware of the Nebraska Dev Lab Pipeline Program. It is an educational partnership between us and Doane University. Our goal is to help address the shortage of software development talent in Nebraska by turning a small cohort into quality, entry-level software developers….
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