Advent of Code – Day 4
Day 4 of the Advent of Code has us mining for data in MD5 hashes, which is out of the...
2015-12-24
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Blog Posts
Closing Down for the Year
Today is my last day of work for 2015. I’m actually proud that I’ve managed to take almost all my...
2015-12-24
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Sentiment Analysis & Key Phrase Detection w/ Power Query & Power BI
Recently I worked on a neat little POC with Patrick Leblanc for a customer in Education who wished to perform sentiment...
2015-12-24 (first published: 2015-12-16)
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Specifying Paths to External Items (Report Builder and SSRS) in SharePoint with PowerShell
[2015-Dec-24] My story: two SSRS items (main report and its sub-report) need to be deployed to SharePoint. Trivial task, and...
2015-12-24
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SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availablility Enhancements
In this Article I have listed out SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn Availability Enhancements.SQL Server 2016 [CTP 3.2] SQL Server 2016 CTP Standard Edition...
2015-12-24
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Thoughts on Advent of Code
Over the past couple of days I’ve posted several times about the Advent of Code Contest and worked my way through...
2015-12-24
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‘Twas 4:45 Friday
I couldn’t think of anything really fun to post for Christmas Eve-Eve and I’ve been busy buying and wrapping presents...
2015-12-23
507 reads
Advent of Code
If you want your skills to be sharp, you practice. If you want to get yourself to actually do practice, you call it a “challenge”. This is what the...
2015-12-23
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Advent of Code #2
This one gives you a 1000 rows of package dimensions. You calculate the surface area needed for wrapping paper, plus...
2015-12-23
675 reads
Advent of Code #3 – Part 1
Part 1 isn’t bad. Parse a string that has direction indicators and track each location you stop at. I’m trying...
2015-12-23
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Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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Checking the Error Log II
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