Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Agent Framework Makeover: Claws, Loops and Harnesses

Microsoft's newly released Agent Framework Harness packages the loops, planning, memory, context management and safety controls that developers previously had to assemble around AI models themselves.
OSTechNix

Racket Core Concepts: A Practical Guide to Learning Racket Programming

Learn the important Racket concepts with practical examples, from functions and recursion to macros, contracts, streams, and ...
GitHub

TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a pretrained time-series foundation model developed by Google Research for time-series forecasting.

1.0 and 2.0: relevant code archived in the sub directory v1. You can pip install timesfm==1.3.0 to install an older version of this package to load them.
IEEE

PRIOR-SLAM: Enabling Visual SLAM for Loop Closure Under Large Viewpoint Variations

Abstract: Existing visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems struggle with loop closure under significant viewpoint variations, such as revisiting the same place orthogonally or ...
IEEE

Convex Optimization for Trajectory Generation: A Tutorial on Generating Dynamically Feasible Trajectories Reliably and Efficiently

Abstract: Reliable and efficient trajectory generation methods are a fundamental need for autonomous dynamical systems. The goal of this article is to provide a comprehensive tutorial of three major ...