This Week I Learned - Week #25 2021
This Week I Learned -
* For dependency visualization Azure Migrate: Server Assessment leverages the power and technology from Log Analytics. The dependency visualization is free for the first 180 days from the day of associating a Log Analytics workspace with the Server Assessment tool. After 180 days, standard Log Analytics charges will apply. And if you use any other solution within that Log Analytics workspace it is not free, and you’ll incur standard Log Analytics charges. My recommendation is to leave the tool gathering the dependency visualization data for at least 30 days as that should capture a good picture of what happens within your environment and show any specific workload spikes.
* A Practical Guide to DESIGNING SECURE HEALTH SOLUTIONS Using Microsoft Azure
* Datastore Choices Cheat Sheet
* Vertex AI is the end-to-end ML platform from Google which ties all stages from data curation to model training to deployment and monitoring. Its dashboard gives a wholesome and unified experience. It is going to be an interesting match with Amazon's SageMaker.
* Application portfolio rationalization (APR) involves categorizing applications and rationalizing them using techniques such as contain, maintain and invest (CMI) and 6R Analysis — rehost, replatform, refactor, rewrite, retain and retire. This is a key stage in deciding how to onboard apps to cloud infrastructure.
* Positioning is supported in WebVTT subtitling format, but styling is limited to <b>, <i>, <u> since CSS class names are not yet standardized.
* An Introduction to ServiceNow Platform in under 10 minutes
* Cobra Effect refers to a solution to a problem that actually makes the whole thing a lot worse. Troy Hunt explains how sites that disallow pasting your password into a login field are a modern day implementation of the Cobra Effect.
* English has been the international language of aviation since the 1950s. But until 2003—when the first International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) guidelines were released—the requirements were not spelt out. - Fifty Two
* The meme is the ultimate internet in-joke. When the format first started taking over internet culture in the West, one of its richest sources was homemade media. The first viral memes were all images of cats, children and domestic accidents. -
* Cinema has not shied from co-opting the vocabulary of the classics. In 1991, the composer Ilaiyaraaja used part of the tevaram in Rakkamma Kaiyya Thattu, a Rajinikanth dance number in Thalapathy. In 2007, A.R. Rahman incorporated a hymn from the Thiruppavai in Sivaji, another Rajinikanth hit. Since at least the 1940s, much of what might be considered ‘high’ Tamil culture has been given the ‘pop’ treatment by its cinema. Political leaders C. N. Annadurai and M. Karunanidhi wrote scripts that were performed by actors such as Sivaji Ganesan and M. G. Ramachandran.- Fifty Two
* Amazon Business has India's largest selection of products with GST for office purchases.
* ...the “five second rule” for eating food that falls on the floor is actually a healthy thing to do.
* ...the immune system is tuned to find a balance “between attacking and neutralizing real dangers and showing sufficient restraint such that its potency didn’t destroy the body. evolution found a Goldilocks set point for the human immune system. When it’s working well, it’s aggressive enough to fend off most invaders but not so powerful that it’s constantly attacking its own cells.
* Traditional medicines are based on small molecules with relatively simple chemical structures. Biologics, in contrast, are derived from living cells and are much more complex in structure, making them expensive to manufacture and a big factor in the rising costs of health care. What makes them so appealing to doctors and patients is that they don’t go everywhere in the body; they target and modulate specific chemicals or cells at the core of the immune system’s responses. Therefore, they’re usually less toxic and more effective than traditional drugs.
* India’s forests, deserts, hills, grasslands, plains and waters are home to a dazzling array of serpents—around 300 species in all. Of these, about 60 are venomous and medically important. The Big Four of these 60 are responsible for a majority of deaths and morbidities across the country: the spectacled cobra (distinct eye pattern on the hood), the common krait (bluish-black with thin white bands), the saw-scaled viper, and the Russell’s viper (both covered in brown-and-black markings).
* Venom has evolved to work specifically against the biological mechanisms of a snake’s natural prey—which may be reptiles, amphibians or small mammals. Venom is a complex cocktail of peptides, enzymatic and non-enzymatic proteins, salts and other substances. A member of the viper family, such as the Russell’s viper, injects hemotoxins that affect the victim’s circulatory system. Cobra and krait bites inject neurotoxins into their prey, debilitating the nervous system and causing paralysis. Venoms like cytotoxins don’t necessarily cause death, but lead to disfigurements that can have long-lasting consequences. Venom spreads faster when the heart rate rises due to panic. Antivenom is a manufactured substance, made in ways similar to a vaccine, which contains precisely targeted antibodies that bind themselves to toxins. If the venom toxin is a key, the antibody is a very specific lock. It just sticks to that key and prevents the toxin from doing its job. To manufacture antivenom, venom is injected into an equine or bovine animal in a series of small doses over about four or five months, until the animal starts developing antibodies. Then, blood is drawn, and the plasma is separated and purified. Antivenom is available in liquid or powder form in tiny vials. In India, antivenom is made with venom extracted from the Big Four. In snake venoms, there are five or six key toxin families. The structural similarities between basic toxin proteins in serpent species makes it possible to create common neutralising antibodies. Such antibodies that counter venom from multiple species can be combined to eventually create a “broad spectrum antivenom. - Fifty Two
* Irula Snake Catchers’ Industrial Cooperative Society (ISCICS) is the source of a vast majority of venom supplied in India. The society was started by Romulus Whitaker in 1978 to provide economic support for the Irula tribe, historically skilled at dealing with wildlife, especially snakes. Today, the society has about 350 active members who are granted annual licenses by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department to catch predetermined numbers of the Big Four snakes from within the state. Approximate prices for a gram of venom can begin at around ₹23,000.
* Mumbai’s Haffkine Institute for Training, Research and Testing was stablished in 1899 and named after Dr. Waldemar Haffkine, the creator of vaccines for cholera and the plague. The institute has been working on venom research since at least 1920.
* The tree species that by far covers the greatest area is the Indian banyan (Ficus benghalensis), the national tree of India and often associated with shrines. Currently, India has six banyans that occupy one hectare or more. The largest is Thimmamma Marrimanu, located in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. Legend has it that a woman named Thimmamma threw herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband in 1434 and one of the pyre poles spouted to become a young tree. Thimmamma Marrimanu’s combined crowns merge to occupy 2.19 hectares (5.41 acres), an area equivalent to three soccer fields.
* Australia has the population of New Delhi in a vast country.
* Catapults were invented by the ancient Greeks and in ancient India where they were used by the Magadhan Emperor Ajatshatru around the early to mid 5th century BC.
* Norman Gilbert Pritchard was India's first Olympian and athlete to win an Olympic medal. He had won two silver medals in athletics at the Paris Summer Olympics in 1900. Pritchard was born in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) on 23 April 1875. He grew up in India and it's also where he cut his sporting teeth before leaving for England in 1905 on business. He then moved to the United States to pursue a career in acting. He was the first Olympian to act on the stage in England and on the big screen in silent Hollywood movies under the screen name, Norman Trevor. - BBC
* Reportedly shot for a budget of almost 160 million dollars, ZeroZeroZero is one of the highest budget mini-series of all time.
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