Training
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Taking a rest from my AU prep, I headed across to Zurich last night for an F# meetup focused on machine learning. Primarily because I'm interested in machine learning as a field but also because it seemed a good opportunity to dust off my F# skills. It was interesting to be on the train when the news from the first day of Microsoft's Connect(); event hit the airwaves: the main headline being that .NET is going open source and cross-platform. Yes, folks, it's actually happening: .NET 5 is going to be supported on Linux and OS X. And .NET is…
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Last week was very quiet for me: starting with Memorial Day in the US meant a gentle start for me in Europe, too, and the week ended on Wednesday evening as we then had our own long weekend for Ascension, here in Switzerland. It was nice to have some time off just before a work trip: I'm getting up before dawn tomorrow to head across to Toronto for Autodesk's annual internal Technical Summit (generally a really interesting and useful event – I'm very much looking forward to it). Over the last few years – as those of you who follow…
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Augusto Gonçalves, from our ADN team in Latin America, pointed me to the fact that we're holding a Spanish-language AutoCAD .NET API training class in Lima, Peru on April 7-8, 2014 (followed by one on the Revit API on April 9). To register, please complete this survey.
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Aside from being St. Valentine's Day, Friday is notable as it marks the beginning of the first ever ETHx class, "AMRx – Autonomous Mobile Robots". ETHx is the moniker being used by the prestigious technical institution ETH Zurich for the MOOC courses they're delivering as part of edX. This is exciting: despite the fact I live close enough theoretically to attend classes at ETH Zurich in person, I'm very happy to be able to do so from the comfort of my home. The topic is itself very interesting… the "environment perception" piece alone looks as though it should cover algorithms…
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Back in March, I signed up via Code.org to see if I could get help teach basic programming skills to kids. It didn't work out mainly because of my location – Code.org is really focused on the US – but I stayed on their mailing list and have been following their updates with great interest. For those of you who are not familiar with Code.org, it's a resource that's been established to promote computer science education for students. A great example of what's being provided is the Hour of Code, which has been put together for this week's Computer Science…
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For those of you unable to attend AU 2013 in person, the keynote sessions and a small number of this year's classes will be streamed live. And they're free to attend: you just need to be registered with AU Online. I'm lucky to be presenting one of only 11 classes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the web as well as having a live audience: it seems my Kinect Fusion session is the only developer-centric class that's been selected for this year's AU Online, which is quite the honour. Hopefully I'll do it justice! A good piece of related…
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Over the weekend I managed to complete the BerkeleyX Foundations of Computer Graphics class. This was really an excellent class, both in terms of the structure of the lectures and the homework assignments, which actually scaled in a non-linear way (the last assignment took as much time to complete as the previous three combined). But you were eased into it and didn't strictly need to do the last piece of homework (which was to write a ray-tracer from scratch) to get a "pass" on the course. What's nice about these MOOCs is that – in order to scale, putting the…
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It seems like I'm working on a number of things that I can't talk about, at the moment, which – while the work itself is extremely stimulating – can get a little frustrating. Over my 7+ years of blogging, it seems I've developed a visceral need to share what I'm working on (I wonder if this is is an example of Social Media changing behaviour in general… something to ponder when I eventually find the time :-). This focus on more internal activities is, to some degree, something I anticipated when I started my "new" role but it certainly feels…
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As Labor Day passes and the summer draws to a close, it's time to start thinking about Autodesk University. The AU team clearly knows this (they themselves have been thinking about the event since before AU 2012, so this is more for the rest of us 😉 and so they've gone ahead and posted a preview of the class schedule for this year's event. Take a look at rows 2^8 and 2^8+1 (that's 256 and 257 for non-programmers 🙂 if you're interested in seeing information on the two classes I'm delivering, this year: one is on Leap Motion, the other…
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Augusto Gonçalves – from the ADN team based in São Paulo – asked me to post a quick note advertising an upcoming AutoCAD .NET training he's delivering in Mexico City on September 2-3, 2013. The class is free to attend and will be delivered in Spanish. Here's a description of the training class in Spanish and a link to the registration page.