This Week I Learned - Week #50 2019
This Week I Learned -
* Azure Spot Virtual Machines provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts. Spot pricing is available on single Virtual Machines in addition to Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS). Spot Virtual Machines offer the same characteristics as a pay-as-you-go Virtual Machines, with differences in pricing and evictions. Spot Virtual Machines can be evicted anytime if Azure needs capacity. The workloads that are ideally suited to run on Spot Virtual Machines include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
• Batch jobs.
• Workloads that can sustain and/or recover from interruptions.
• Development and test.
• Stateless applications that can use Spot Virtual Machines to scale out, opportunistically saving cost.
• Short-lived jobs which can easily be run again if the Virtual Machine is evicted.
* To remove unused CSS, automated unused CSS cleaning, visual regression testing tools can be used
* Oracle SOA Suite is a part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of software products.
* Phishing emails to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords play on their victim's fears. A newer case is of an email alert that informs that an online account on a popular site has been compromised and has a link to phisher's site to recover account.
* Seeing AI is a free artificial intelligence application developed by Microsoft for iOS (supported on iPhone 5 and later). Seeing AI uses the device camera to identify people and objects, and then the app audibly describes those objects for people with visual impairment. Seeing AI is primarily used to describe short text, documents, products, people, currency scenery, colors, handwriting and light. It has been described as a "Swiss Army knife for blind people"
* Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay
* Orphan diseases are conditions that affect only a small number of people, so there's not a lot of money to be made in treating them. They are called orphans because no one wants to take responsibility for them.
* Quinine, found in the bark of cinchona trees, cures malaria and livens up a gin and tonic. Eastern Congo has the world’s largest quinine plantations. A region known for misery also saves lives - The Economist
* Silk from Darwin's bark spider found in Madagascar is 10 times stronger than Kevlar but lighter than cotton. It is the toughest biological material ever studied.
* Dr Sambhu Nath De discovered the cholera toxin, the animal model of cholera, and successfully demonstrated the method of transmission of cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae.
* Amul passes on almost 80 paise of every rupee paid by consumers for milk and & milk products to the milk producers.
* “We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality & prevents exploration & experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty & fumbling.” — John W. Gardner, Self-Renewal (1963)
* 9-year-old kid who kept getting in trouble for doodling in class gets a job decorating a restaurant with his drawings
* Azure Spot Virtual Machines provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts. Spot pricing is available on single Virtual Machines in addition to Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS). Spot Virtual Machines offer the same characteristics as a pay-as-you-go Virtual Machines, with differences in pricing and evictions. Spot Virtual Machines can be evicted anytime if Azure needs capacity. The workloads that are ideally suited to run on Spot Virtual Machines include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
• Batch jobs.
• Workloads that can sustain and/or recover from interruptions.
• Development and test.
• Stateless applications that can use Spot Virtual Machines to scale out, opportunistically saving cost.
• Short-lived jobs which can easily be run again if the Virtual Machine is evicted.
* To remove unused CSS, automated unused CSS cleaning, visual regression testing tools can be used
* Oracle SOA Suite is a part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of software products.
* Phishing emails to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords play on their victim's fears. A newer case is of an email alert that informs that an online account on a popular site has been compromised and has a link to phisher's site to recover account.
* Seeing AI is a free artificial intelligence application developed by Microsoft for iOS (supported on iPhone 5 and later). Seeing AI uses the device camera to identify people and objects, and then the app audibly describes those objects for people with visual impairment. Seeing AI is primarily used to describe short text, documents, products, people, currency scenery, colors, handwriting and light. It has been described as a "Swiss Army knife for blind people"
* Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay
* Orphan diseases are conditions that affect only a small number of people, so there's not a lot of money to be made in treating them. They are called orphans because no one wants to take responsibility for them.
* Quinine, found in the bark of cinchona trees, cures malaria and livens up a gin and tonic. Eastern Congo has the world’s largest quinine plantations. A region known for misery also saves lives - The Economist
* Silk from Darwin's bark spider found in Madagascar is 10 times stronger than Kevlar but lighter than cotton. It is the toughest biological material ever studied.
* Dr Sambhu Nath De discovered the cholera toxin, the animal model of cholera, and successfully demonstrated the method of transmission of cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae.
* Amul passes on almost 80 paise of every rupee paid by consumers for milk and & milk products to the milk producers.
* “We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality & prevents exploration & experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty & fumbling.” — John W. Gardner, Self-Renewal (1963)
* 9-year-old kid who kept getting in trouble for doodling in class gets a job decorating a restaurant with his drawings
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