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Learning Silverlight and Blend with .toolbox (Silverlight TV #29)

May 27, 10 //
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In this episode, Arturo Toledo demonstrates all of the new content he and his colleagues have created to teach you to design and develop with Expression Blend and Silverlight. He shows off some really cool samples, all of which you can download and do yourself through hands on-labs. Arturo walks through the .toolbox site and shows the numerous learning materials, videos, demos, and hands-on labs. If you have been looking for a comprehensive set of self-paced learning materials focused on designing  with Expression Blend, you should definitely watch this video and check out .toolbox.
 

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Recent Developments in Deep Learning

March 22, 10 //
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Recent Developments in Deep Learning
Google Tech Talk March 19, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Geoff Hinton, University of Toronto. Deep networks can be learned efficiently from unlabeled data. The layers of representation are learned one at a time using a simple learning module that has only one layer of latent variables. The values of the latent variables of one module form the data for training the next module. Although deep networks have been quite successful for tasks such as object recognition, information retrieval, and modeling motion capture data, the simple learning modules do not have multiplicative interactions which are very useful for some types of data. The talk will show how to introduce multiplicative interactions into the basic learning module in a way that preserves the simple rules for learning and perceptual inference. The new module has a structure that is very similar to the simple cell/complex cell hierarchy that is found in visual cortex. The multiplicative interactions are useful for modeling images, image transformations, and different styles of human walking. Speaker bio: www.cs.toronto.edu
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A tour of the new Channel 9 Learning Center

October 21, 09 //
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Today we officially launched a new area on Channel 9, the Channel 9 Learning Center. This is an area where we’ll provide free training courses (videos, hands-on labs, and code samples) on emerging products and technologies, with our first set of training courses being Windows 7 and Visual Studio. As more products/technology betas get released, you can expect us to add additional training courses into the Learning Center. For more information on training courses, subscribe to the Learn blog which will have regular updates on new and upcoming content on the Learning Center. 

Why are we doing this?

One of the key pieces of feedback from our Channel 9 user survey is that you wanted more technical content, especially on new products and technologies. Our goal with learning centers is to make it easy for developers to pick up and play with new products, APIs, SDKs, etc and to make the learning experience social. This is our first step towards that goal.

 

Taking a tour

To get a feel for the Channel 9 Learning Center, we wanted to give you a quick screenshot tour of what’s included.

Learning Center Home Page

The Learning Center home page includes the aforementioned Learning team’s blog and the list of courses on the right side. For our tour, we’ll click into the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course.

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Visual Studio 2010 Training Course Home page

This is the home page for a training course and it includes:

· Breadcrumb navigation at the very top for easy navigation.

· A list of pre-requisites including experience or tools, frameworks, and SDKs you need to complete the course.

· Each course is broken down into a set of topics or units like Managed Language, ASP.NET 4, the Data Platform and so forth.

· The full training kit is available for download in the top right corner for anyone looking to do offline learning.

· The list of team members who built the training course are in the right column.

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Managed Languages page

Here you’ll find a set of videos and hands-on labs that cover that particular topic. Note that Hands-on labs have the orange bubbly beaker image icon.

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Hands on labs – Introduction to F#

Each hands on lab comes with

· A table of contents with all of the exercises for the Hands-on lab

· A download link to download the hands-on lab for offline use and any associated source code examples

· The ability to share (on Twitter, Facebook, etc), rate, and comment on the lab

· A list of resources for the Hands-on lab.

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Inside a Hands-On lab

Once you’re inside the Hands-On lab, there’s a two column layout, the left column represent the Hands-on lab content and the right column provides quick navigation to other parts of the Hands on lab.

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At the end of each lab exercise, you’ll also see a convenience link to jump to the next exercise in the Hands-on lab.

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Feedback

Well, that’s our quick and dirty tour, as always, we’re open to your feedback and we hope you find this type of technical content valuable.

 

Cheers,

The Channel 9 & Learning Team

A tour of the new Channel 9 Learning Center

October 21, 09 //
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Today we officially launched a new area on Channel 9, the Channel 9 Learning Center. This is an area where we’ll provide free training courses (videos, hands-on labs, and code samples) on emerging products and technologies, with our first set of training courses being Windows 7 and Visual Studio. As more products/technology betas get released, you can expect us to add additional training courses into the Learning Center. For more information on training courses, subscribe to the Learn blog which will have regular updates on new and upcoming content on the Learning Center. 

Why are we doing this?

One of the key pieces of feedback from our Channel 9 user survey is that you wanted more technical content, especially on new products and technologies. Our goal with learning centers is to make it easy for developers to pick up and play with new products, APIs, SDKs, etc and to make the learning experience social. This is our first step towards that goal.

 

Taking a tour

To get a feel for the Channel 9 Learning Center, we wanted to give you a quick screenshot tour of what’s included.

Learning Center Home Page

The Learning Center home page includes the aforementioned Learning team’s blog and the list of courses on the right side. For our tour, we’ll click into the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course.

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Visual Studio 2010 Training Course Home page

This is the home page for a training course and it includes:

· Breadcrumb navigation at the very top for easy navigation.

· A list of pre-requisites including experience or tools, frameworks, and SDKs you need to complete the course.

· Each course is broken down into a set of topics or units like Managed Language, ASP.NET 4, the Data Platform and so forth.

· The full training kit is available for download in the top right corner for anyone looking to do offline learning.

· The list of team members who built the training course are in the right column.

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Managed Languages page

Here you’ll find a set of videos and hands-on labs that cover that particular topic. Note that Hands-on labs have the orange bubbly beaker image icon.

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Hands on labs – Introduction to F#

Each hands on lab comes with

· A table of contents with all of the exercises for the Hands-on lab

· A download link to download the hands-on lab for offline use and any associated source code examples

· The ability to share (on Twitter, Facebook, etc), rate, and comment on the lab

· A list of resources for the Hands-on lab.

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Inside a Hands-On lab

Once you’re inside the Hands-On lab, there’s a two column layout, the left column represent the Hands-on lab content and the right column provides quick navigation to other parts of the Hands on lab.

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At the end of each lab exercise, you’ll also see a convenience link to jump to the next exercise in the Hands-on lab.

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Feedback

Well, that’s our quick and dirty tour, as always, we’re open to your feedback and we hope you find this type of technical content valuable.

 

Cheers,

The Channel 9 & Learning Team

Learning Low Dimensional Manifolds

October 14, 09 //
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Learning Low Dimensional Manifolds
Google Tech Talk October 9, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Yoav Freund, UCSD. Many read-world datasets can be characterized as follows: the "extrinsic dimension" of the data is high, but the "intrinsic dimension" is low. Consider for example the data generated by a motion capture device. Such a device typically tracks a few hundred dots located on a special suit worn by the tracked person. Each time point corresponds to a vector consisting of the (x,y,z) location of each dot. The extrinsic …
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Learning Rules with Adaptor Grammars

July 9, 09 //
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Learning Rules with Adaptor Grammars
Google Tech Talk July 6, 2009 ABSTRACT [note: apologies for the overscanned slides - you can find full resolution slides at www.cog.brown.edu ] Presented by Mark Johnson, Brown University. Nonparametric Bayesian methods are interesting because they may provide a way of learning the appropriate units of generalization as well as the generalization's probability or weight. Adaptor Grammars are a framework for stating a variety of hierarchical nonparametric Bayesian models, where the units of …
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