This Week I Learned - Week #273

This Week I Learned -

Testing between VM’s indirectly peered via the new gateway types (VPMGW1, 2 & 3) shows bandwidth up to 2.8Gbs a big step forward from the previous gateway types that returned a maximum of  980 Mbps when using the now depreciated ‘High Performance’ gateway

* From A Developer's Guide to Building AI Applications [PDF]: The following are examples of the questions that power the engines running AI applications -
Classifications - Which category does it belong to?
Regression - How much? How many?
Anomaly - Is it weird?
Clustering - How is it organized?

* Azure Machine Learning Studio is a cloud-based, visual development environment for creating data experiments, training machine learning models, and publishing them as web services in Azure. The maximum size of a training dataset is 10 GB.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes have some functional overlap, but they serve two different purposes. Pivotal CloudFoundry is an "Application PaaS" and Kubernetes is a "Container PaaS"

JSON is a commonly used file format for NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Couchbase, and Azure Cosmos DB. SQL Server has native support for storing and working with JSON documents, which makes it easy to import and process those types of files.

Reliance manufactures a full 3% of India's Gross Domestic Product. It is responsible for 5% of India's exports. It contributes 10% of the indirect tax revenues of the Government of India. It commands 15% of the weightage on the Sensex. It makes 30% of the total profits of all private companies in India put together. Dhirubhai Ambani used to joke that he "did it all single-handed!". Because he lost use of his right hand after his first stroke in 1986; for 16 years he was literally single-handed - from a 2002 Rediff article

Different countries' legal systems use the term Advocate with somewhat differing meanings. The broad equivalent in many English law-based jurisdictions could be a barrister or a solicitor. The process of becoming an advocate is referred to as devilling in Scotland. At the end of the devilling period, a devil's admission to the Faculty is dependent on certification by the principal devilmaster that the devil is a fit and proper person to be an advocate and that the devil has been involved in a wide range of work in the course of devilling. 

Under the Advocates Act, 1961, the Bar Council of India is the supreme regulatory body to regulate the legal profession in India and also to ensure the compliance of the laws and maintenance of professional standards by the legal profession in the country. An Advocate may be recognized by the Judges of the High Court (in case of an Advocate practicing before that High Court) or by the Supreme Court (in case of the Advocate practicing before the Supreme Court). While the conferral of Senior Advocate status not only implies distinction and fame of the Advocate, it also requires the Senior Advocate to follow higher standards of conduct and some distinct rules. Also, a Senior Advocate is not allowed to interact directly with the clients. He can only take briefs from other Advocates and argue on the basis of the details given by them.

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