This Week I Learned - Week #12 2020

This Week I Learned -

* Microsoft Translator API is an ISO and HIPAA compliant neural machine translation (NMT) service

*Translator Text API Version 3 is GDPR compliant as a processor and satisfies all ISO 20001 and 20018 as well as SOC 3 certification requirements.

*Azure Form Recognizer is a cognitive service that uses machine learning technology to identify and extract key-value pairs and table data from form documents. It then outputs structured data that includes the relationships in the original file. Unsupervised learning allows the model to understand the layout and field data without manual data labeling or intensive coding. You can also do supervised learning with manually labeled data. Models trained with labeled data can perform better and can work with more complicated documents.

*Form Recognizer keeps your data private. The custom training performed on your documents is not used by Microsoft to improve the Form Recognizer model.

*Form Recognizer can be used with Azure Logic Apps to analyze invoices. Form Recognizer API
ingests text from forms, applies machine learning technology to identify keys and tables, and then outputs structured data that includes the relationships within the original file.

*Azure Data Subject Request (DSR) portal enables you to fulfill GDPR requests

*Azure Policy enables you to set policies to conform to the GDPR

* The Azure Security and Compliance GDPR Blueprint accelerates your GDPR deployment

* Compliance Manager for Azure helps you assess and manage GDPR compliance

Time Series Insights is fully integrated with cloud gateways like Azure IoT Hub and Azure Event Hubs.

* If you find yourself running the same code in the Console repeatedly, consider saving the code as a Snippet instead. Snippets are scripts that you author in the Sources panel of Edge browser. They have access to the JavaScript context of the page, and you can run them on any page. Snippets are an alternative to bookmarklets. Firefox DevTools has a feature similar to Snippets called Scratchpad.

* AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) could be an alternative to the JPEG. It's widely supported and has both better compression efficiency and a wider feature set than JPEGs

Simpsons characters made in pure CSS

* Israel plans to tackle Kung flu by using "mobile-phone geolocation tracking technology and a review of credit card data to give a far more precise history of an infected person’s movements before they were diagnosed and identify people who might have been exposed. Those in jeopardy would then be notified by text message to self-quarantine." - Time

* Google, Photoshop, Xerox, Escalator, Frisbee, Bandaid, Kerosene are examples of generic and genericized trademarks.

The success of toxic people is so common that there’s a phrase for it: the “toxic career model".

* There are now more than 40 recognised members of the coronavirus family, infecting a range of mammals and birds, including blackbirds, bats and cats. Veterinary virologists know them well because of the diseases they cause in pigs, cattle and poultry. Coronaviruses have genomes bigger than those seen in any other RNA viruses—about three times longer than HIV’s, twice as long as the influenza virus’s, and half as long again as the Ebola virus’s - The Economist

* "The (Covid-19) virus is an equal opportunity infector" - Larry Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, fought flu, polio, and blindness; once led Google’s nonprofit wing, Google.org

While alcohol-based sanitizers can kill most germs, a traditional hand washing is the only way to rid yourself of such baddies as Clostridium difficile (diarrhea) and norovirus (diarrhea and vomiting).

* The discipline of epidemiology dates back to John Snow, a London doctor who managed to tame an 1854 cholera outbreak by tracking who’d had direct and indirect access to a tainted water pump.

* Mangroves are the only trees that thrive in saltwater.

Aadhar is mandatory for temple rituals at Tirupati

Downward Dog Pose, Downward-facing Dog Pose, or Adho Mukha Shvanasana, is an inversion asana in modern yoga as exercise, often practised as part of a flowing sequence of poses, especially Surya Namaskar, the Salute to the Sun.
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* "I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist. - Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM.

* "The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning, you're not old." - Rosalyn Yalow, a Nobel Prize-awarded nuclear physicist

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