GitHub Kills 'Copilot Voice,' Copilot Writing Hallucinations, Blazor Geospatial Visualization, More

March 14, 2024

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GitHub Kills 'Copilot Voice' Tool

GitHub is ending the technical preview of its Copilot Voice tool, today announcing the speech tech originally dubbed "Hey GitHub!" will not become a company product.

■	New in VS Code: Voice Dictation, Improved Copilot AI
■	Keyboardless Coding? GitHub Copilot 'AI Pair Programmer' Gets Voice Commands
■	Devs Can Now Just Say 'Hey Code' to Start Copilot Chat in VS Code
■	GitHub Copilot Chat Nears GA: 'Today We Are Re-Founded on Copilot'

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'Microsoft Acquires Google' (& Other Copilot Hallucinations)

At this point, Copilot for writing in VS Code is a mixed bag for me. It can offer completely accurate and helpful suggestions or it can write like Hunter S. Thompson on a bad acid trip.

■	First .NET 9 Preview Emphasizes Cloud-Native Development, AI Apps
■	Copilot Chat Highlights Visual Studio 2022 17.10 Preview 1
■	AI Marks New Release of Visual Studio 2022 17.9
■	'Prompt Engineering' Jokes Abound when GitHub Asks Devs for Tips

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Use AI to Quickly Spin Up a Data-Driven WinForms Desktop App

Wherein our intrepid editor serves as a test case for "ordinary business users" and "citizen developers" to slip the surly bonds of low-code and rise to more sophisticated development tooling with the help of Copilot/Chat.

■	Copilot by the Numbers: Microsoft's Big AI Bet Paying Off
■	New GitHub Copilot Chat AI Features Help Set the Intent: 'This Is the Future'
■	New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality'
■	Among Hundreds of AI Tools for VS Code, GitHub Copilot Chat Explodes

Geographically Visualizing Customer Data with Blazor and ArcGIS

Whether you're analyzing sales territories, monitoring environmental changes, or tracking the spread of diseases, geospatial visualization provides a holistic view that goes beyond mere numbers.

■	Choosing the Right UI Framework for Native Windows Applications
■	From Zero to .NET MAUI: Seeking One Codebase to Run Everywhere
■	Demystify the Art of Securing Microservices with .NET 8 Identity Techniques
■	Rethinking Team Metrics

Data Clustering Using a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) with C#

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on technique for visualizing and clustering data.

■	Principal Component Analysis from Scratch Using Singular Value Decomposition with C#
■	Matrix Inverse from Scratch Using SVD Decomposition with C#
■	Principal Component Analysis (PCA) from Scratch Using the Classical Technique with C#
■	Matrix Inverse from Scratch Using QR Decomposition with C#

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GitHub Kills 'Copilot Voice,' Copilot Writing Hallucinations, Blazor Geospatial Visualization, More

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