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A circular flow chart of the QL framework. At the top is a rectangle labeled “QL Scheduling Strategy” with the word “Agent” in parenthesis, representing that the strategy is mapped to an RL agent. From the rectangle, an arrow points around to a rectangle below it that contains a input state space. The rectangle is labeled “Program under test” with the word “Environment” in parenthesis, representing that the program is mapped to the unknown environment. The arrow is labeled “Next op,” and alongside it are the Softmax selection function and the value update formula.
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Reinforcing program correctness with reinforcement learning 

April 14, 2021 | Suvam Mukherjee

Many of our online activities, from receiving and sending emails to searching for information to streaming movies, are driven behind the scenes by cloud-based distributed architectures. Writing concurrent software—programs with multiple logical threads of execution—is of paramount importance to scale…

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The incubation checklist: From innovation to shipping a new product 

April 14, 2021

The Incubation Checklist will increase your project’s chance at success, but you’ll also have structured your insights in a way that can transfer what you’ve learned to your team’s (or your company’s) next incubation.

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Innovation by (and beyond) the numbers: A history of research collaborations in Excel 

April 13, 2021

Microsoft Excel is one of the world’s most important software tools, relied upon by users worldwide to create, understand, model, predict, and collaborate. As the Excel team works to leverage new areas of computer science – advancements in programming languages, NLP,…

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Empowering operators on their cloud migration journey 

April 13, 2021

For operators, many challenges can be involved in their journey to the cloud, some more complex than others. Here, it is important to note that when it comes to operators’ path to cloud migration, there is no such thing as…

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Beyond Power Analysis: Metric Sensitivity Analysis in A/B Tests 

April 6, 2021

This is a common story among experimenters: you have a hypothesis to test, you code the change you want to deploy, and you design an A/B test to properly measure the impact of the change on the user. After the…

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Why UX researchers need to be great educators 

April 6, 2021

Producing great product insights is bolstered by understanding what motivates stakeholders to learn, how they retain information, how to build on prior knowledge, and what experiences can activate behaviors. This helps ensure that research is acted upon and encourages colleagues…

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Volastra Therapeutics Partners with Microsoft to Advance Metastatic Cancer Research 

April 6, 2021

Collaboration will integrate Microsoft Azure AI and Volastra’s insights into tumor biology to develop machine learning tools to detect drivers of tumor growth and predict metastatic risk.

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A responsible approach to innovation 

March 30, 2021

The intersection of desirability, feasibility, and viability is seen as the sweet spot for innovation; these attributes are the cornerstones of Design Thinking. But what else should be considered? Here are some ideas to approach innovation responsibly, so you can…

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Seattle Now: A chance to change the office 

March 30, 2021

If you’re one of the many white-collar workers who left the office behind a year ago, you’re probably wondering just what’s in store when you go back. We get some insight on lessons learned from a year of remote work…

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