This Week I Learned - Week #21 2019
This Week I Learned -
* Azure Custom Vision is a cognitive service that lets you build, deploy and improve your own image classifiers. An image classifier is an AI service that applies labels (which represent classes) to images, according to their visual characteristics. Custom Vision functionality can be divided into two features. Image classification applies one or more labels to an image. Object detection is similar, but it also returns the coordinates in the image where the applied label(s) can be found. Image Classification tags whole images. Object Detection finds the location of content within an image. Custom Vision is only available to use with an Azure subscription.
* In Azure Functions there is no way to check what “Memory consumption” per request was
* The HTML5 History API gives developers the ability to modify a website's URL without a full page refresh
* Google’s main income comes from its ads business. Advertising made up 91% of Google's revenue in 2016. Google’s ads business is divided into three main components: AdWords, AdSense, AdMob. AdSense publishes ads on other websites. AdMob is the same as AdSense but for mobile applications. AdWords is the software determining which ads will be presented in the Google webpage. Google AdWords is now Google Ads. The new Google Ads brand represents the full range of advertising capabilities we offer today—on Google.com and across our other properties, partner sites and apps—to help marketers connect with the billions of people finding answers on Search, watching videos on YouTube, exploring new places on Google Maps, discovering apps on Google Play, browsing content across the web, and more.
* As of January 2019, Google was responsible for almost 90 percent of global desktop search traffic. The company holds a market share of around 90 percent in a wide range of digital markets, having little to no domestic competition in many of them.
* Google AI researchers working with Northwestern Medicine created an AI model capable of detecting lung cancer from screening tests better than human radiologists with an average of eight years experience. The end-to-end deep learning model was used to predict whether a patient has lung cancer, generating a patient lung cancer malignancy risk score and identifying the location of the malignant tissue in the lungs. The model was trained using more than 42,000 chest CT screening images taken from nearly 15,000 patients, 578 of whom developed cancer within a year. Deep learning is also behind Google’s advances in diabetic retinopathy diagnosis through eye scans. Developing the AI-driven DR screening approach involved curating a dataset of 128,000 ophthalmologist-evaluated images of the interiors of eyeballs which were used to train a deep neural network — layers of mathematical functions modeled after biological neurons — to detect DR. Google revealed that it has deployed the algorithm for real-world clinical use at Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India. The algorithm received a CE mark, indicating it meets the European Union Directive’s standards for medical devices - VB
* Netflix offered a streaming-only option in late 2010, after almost 10 years of experimentation.
* "Developers need to think like security engineers. That's part of Amazon's culture. Engineers need to be developers, operators, architects, testers and security experts"
* Ren Zhengfei is a Chinese entrepreneur and engineer. He is the founder and CEO of Shenzhen-based Huawei, the world's largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and second largest manufacturer of smartphones. As of February 2019, he had a net worth of US$1.7 billion. Ren Zhengfei's army background and Huawei's opaque culture have fueled suspicions in some countries that the firm has links with the Chinese military and intelligence services. Huawei is the world's seventh-largest information technology company by revenue. The top 10 largest information technology companies are: Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics, Amazon, Hon Hai Precision/Foxconn, Alphabet Inc., Microsoft, Huawei, Hitachi, IBM, Dell Technologies.
* China based DJI produces about 70 percent of the world's commercial drones. The Pentagon had banned the military from using DJI drones for security reasons since 2017
* Rudyard Kipling made his home in four continents. Rudyard Kipling was the youngest author ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was 41 years old when he was awarded the Literature Prize in 1907
* It took approximately six to nine months to produce an episode of Futurama. The planning for each episode began with a table meeting of writers, who discussed the plot ideas as a group. The writers are given index cards with plot points that they are required to use as the center of activity in each episode. A single staff writer wrote an outline and then produced a script. Once the first draft of a script was finished, the writers and executive producers called in the actors for a table read. After this script reading, the writers collaborated to rewrite the script as a group before sending it to the animation team. At this point the voice recording was also started and the script was out of the writers' hands. The writing staff held three Ph.D.s, seven master's degrees, and cumulatively had more than 50 years at Harvard University. Series writer Patric M. Verrone stated, "we were easily the most overeducated cartoon writers in history" - Wikipedia
* Google Pay has 45 million Indian users
* On an average, one third of an IAS officer's career is spent in rural areas
* After independence in 1947, India established a parliamentary democracy, and a deeply meddlesome government to spread the wealth to its impoverished masses. On the economic front, then, every Indian party is on the left, by Western standards. The Congress traces its economic ideology to socialist thinkers, but the B.J.P.’s thinking is grounded in Swadeshi, a left-wing economic nationalism. Regional parties, an increasingly important third force, are inspired by the same Indian socialist heroes, like Ram Manohar Lohia - NYT
* The average age of winning/leading candidates from all 542 constituencies is 54 years and the average value of their total assets is Rs 21 crore - ToI
* These geocharts/choropleth maps summarize the election results of 2019 and the previous time in 1984 when a single party won convincingly -
* Confidence is not, ‘they will like me’. Confidence instead is, ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t — Christina Grimmie
* Azure Custom Vision is a cognitive service that lets you build, deploy and improve your own image classifiers. An image classifier is an AI service that applies labels (which represent classes) to images, according to their visual characteristics. Custom Vision functionality can be divided into two features. Image classification applies one or more labels to an image. Object detection is similar, but it also returns the coordinates in the image where the applied label(s) can be found. Image Classification tags whole images. Object Detection finds the location of content within an image. Custom Vision is only available to use with an Azure subscription.
* In Azure Functions there is no way to check what “Memory consumption” per request was
* The HTML5 History API gives developers the ability to modify a website's URL without a full page refresh
* Google’s main income comes from its ads business. Advertising made up 91% of Google's revenue in 2016. Google’s ads business is divided into three main components: AdWords, AdSense, AdMob. AdSense publishes ads on other websites. AdMob is the same as AdSense but for mobile applications. AdWords is the software determining which ads will be presented in the Google webpage. Google AdWords is now Google Ads. The new Google Ads brand represents the full range of advertising capabilities we offer today—on Google.com and across our other properties, partner sites and apps—to help marketers connect with the billions of people finding answers on Search, watching videos on YouTube, exploring new places on Google Maps, discovering apps on Google Play, browsing content across the web, and more.
* As of January 2019, Google was responsible for almost 90 percent of global desktop search traffic. The company holds a market share of around 90 percent in a wide range of digital markets, having little to no domestic competition in many of them.
* Google AI researchers working with Northwestern Medicine created an AI model capable of detecting lung cancer from screening tests better than human radiologists with an average of eight years experience. The end-to-end deep learning model was used to predict whether a patient has lung cancer, generating a patient lung cancer malignancy risk score and identifying the location of the malignant tissue in the lungs. The model was trained using more than 42,000 chest CT screening images taken from nearly 15,000 patients, 578 of whom developed cancer within a year. Deep learning is also behind Google’s advances in diabetic retinopathy diagnosis through eye scans. Developing the AI-driven DR screening approach involved curating a dataset of 128,000 ophthalmologist-evaluated images of the interiors of eyeballs which were used to train a deep neural network — layers of mathematical functions modeled after biological neurons — to detect DR. Google revealed that it has deployed the algorithm for real-world clinical use at Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India. The algorithm received a CE mark, indicating it meets the European Union Directive’s standards for medical devices - VB
* Netflix offered a streaming-only option in late 2010, after almost 10 years of experimentation.
* "Developers need to think like security engineers. That's part of Amazon's culture. Engineers need to be developers, operators, architects, testers and security experts"
* Ren Zhengfei is a Chinese entrepreneur and engineer. He is the founder and CEO of Shenzhen-based Huawei, the world's largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and second largest manufacturer of smartphones. As of February 2019, he had a net worth of US$1.7 billion. Ren Zhengfei's army background and Huawei's opaque culture have fueled suspicions in some countries that the firm has links with the Chinese military and intelligence services. Huawei is the world's seventh-largest information technology company by revenue. The top 10 largest information technology companies are: Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics, Amazon, Hon Hai Precision/Foxconn, Alphabet Inc., Microsoft, Huawei, Hitachi, IBM, Dell Technologies.
* China based DJI produces about 70 percent of the world's commercial drones. The Pentagon had banned the military from using DJI drones for security reasons since 2017
* Rudyard Kipling made his home in four continents. Rudyard Kipling was the youngest author ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was 41 years old when he was awarded the Literature Prize in 1907
* It took approximately six to nine months to produce an episode of Futurama. The planning for each episode began with a table meeting of writers, who discussed the plot ideas as a group. The writers are given index cards with plot points that they are required to use as the center of activity in each episode. A single staff writer wrote an outline and then produced a script. Once the first draft of a script was finished, the writers and executive producers called in the actors for a table read. After this script reading, the writers collaborated to rewrite the script as a group before sending it to the animation team. At this point the voice recording was also started and the script was out of the writers' hands. The writing staff held three Ph.D.s, seven master's degrees, and cumulatively had more than 50 years at Harvard University. Series writer Patric M. Verrone stated, "we were easily the most overeducated cartoon writers in history" - Wikipedia
* Google Pay has 45 million Indian users
* On an average, one third of an IAS officer's career is spent in rural areas
* After independence in 1947, India established a parliamentary democracy, and a deeply meddlesome government to spread the wealth to its impoverished masses. On the economic front, then, every Indian party is on the left, by Western standards. The Congress traces its economic ideology to socialist thinkers, but the B.J.P.’s thinking is grounded in Swadeshi, a left-wing economic nationalism. Regional parties, an increasingly important third force, are inspired by the same Indian socialist heroes, like Ram Manohar Lohia - NYT
* The average age of winning/leading candidates from all 542 constituencies is 54 years and the average value of their total assets is Rs 21 crore - ToI
* These geocharts/choropleth maps summarize the election results of 2019 and the previous time in 1984 when a single party won convincingly -
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