This Week I Learned - Week #43 2022
This Week I Learned -
* Windows Virtual Desktop is now called Azure Virtual Desktop
* Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that operates on multiple clouds. It provides rich visibility, control over data travel, and sophisticated analytics to identify and combat cyberthreats across all your cloud services.
* CASB monitors the overall cloud usage. DLP is built for protecting data in the cloud or wherever it is.
* Twitter uses Druid, Beam, Presto, Hadoop, Airflow, Flume, Scribe, Kafka, Avro, Parquet, Thrift, Dataflow, BigQuery
* Stable diffusion is a state of the art text-to-image model that generates images from text. Lexica is a Stable Diffusion search engine
* Bloom is an open and multilingual large language model with 176 billion parameters, it was trained using the NVIDIA AI platform, with text generation in 46 languages and 13 programming languages.
* The two main types of hemophilia are A and B, with a third, rarer form called hemophilia C. Hemophilia A is the most common severe inherited coagulation disorder in animals (dogs, rats, sheep) and human beings. In dogs, as in other species, the disease arises as the result of spontaneous mutation. Hemophilia is caused by a mutation or change, in one of the genes, that provides instructions for making the clotting factor proteins needed to form a blood clot. This change or mutation can prevent the clotting protein from working properly or to be missing altogether. These genes are located on the X chromosome.
* In the United States, most people with hemophilia are diagnosed at a very young age. Based on CDC data, the median age at diagnosis is 36 months for people with mild hemophilia, 8 months for those with moderate hemophilia, and 1 month for those with severe hemophilia. There is currently no cure for hemophilia. People living with hemophilia shouldn't exercise or play sports.
* Haemophilia affects males more often than females because females have an additional X chromosome that acts as a “back-up.” Because males only have one X chromosome, any mutation in the factor VIII or IX gene will result in hemophilia. Females with a mutation on one X chromosome are called “carriers”.
* Couverture chocolate is a chocolate that contains a higher percentage of cocoa butter (32–39%) than baking or eating chocolate. This additional cocoa butter, combined with proper tempering, gives the chocolate more sheen, a firmer "snap" when broken, and a creamy mellow flavor. Smoor is the largest true couverture chocolate chain in India.
* Beethoven first publicly performed when he was eight years old. Beethoven began losing his hearing in his mid-20s, after already building a reputation as a musician and composer. By the time he was 44 or 45, he was totally deaf and unable to converse unless he passed written notes back and forth to his colleagues, visitors and friends. Theories on the cause of deafness range from syphilis to lead poisoning, typhus, or possibly even his habit of plunging his head into cold water to keep himself awake. He wrote many of his most famous pieces while partially or totally deaf. It’s likely that Beethoven never heard a single note of his magnum opus, Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, played. Beethoven was the first composer to combine vocal and instrumental music in a symphony. In short, Beethoven’s work elevated instrumental music—hitherto considered inferior to vocal music—to the realm of high art. He died in 1827 at the age of 56.
* Bach became increasingly blind towards the end of his life.
* Julie Powell, the writer whose decision to spend a year cooking every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” led to the popular food blog, the Julie/Julia Project, a best-selling book and a film starring Meryl Streep - "Julie & Julia".
* 22-year-old Bert Mueller who came to India as a student, started the first California Burrito outlet in Bengaluru in 2012. Now the chain has over 50 outlets across Bengaluru, Hyderabad and New Delhi NCR.
* Humayun was born to Babur's favourite wife Māham Begum on the Tuesday of 6th March 1508. Babur (descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan & founder of the Mughal dynasty) divided the territories of his empire between two of his sons. Like his father, Humayun was a frequent user of opium. Humayun was soundly defeated in the battle of Kannauj in 1540 by Sher Shah Suri. While fleeing, Humayun sought refuge with the Hindu ruler of the oasis town of Amarkot (now part of Sindh province). Here, in the household of a Hindu Rajput nobleman, Humayun's wife Hamida Bano, daughter of a Sindhi family, gave birth to the future Emperor Akbar on 15 October 1542. Sher Shah's founding of the short-lived Sur Empire, with its capital at Delhi, resulted in Humayun's exile for 15 years in the court of Shah Tahmasp I. Scarcely had he enjoyed his throne for six months during his second reign in Delhi when he slipped down from the polished steps of his palace and died in his forty-ninth year in 1556. Humayun's Tomb in Delhi, India, was commissioned by his chief wife, Bega Begum
* The founder of the Basilica of Our Lady of Graces, a Roman Catholic Church in Sardhana, near Meerut is Joanna Nobilis: a courtesan turned mercenary turned diplomat turned queen.
* During the 18th century, India became a kaleidoscope of wars as the Mughals, Britishers, French, Rajputs, Afghans, Jats, Sikhs and Marathas were all involved in shifting alliances and securing their right to power.
* Of Byju's 50,000 employees, around 3,000 employees are based out of Kerala.
* As per the latest circular of CBDT to its officials to not to seize any gold ornaments and jewellery upto a certain level, a married woman can hold 500 gms of physical gold in the form of jewellery and ornaments, 250 gms for an unmarried woman and only 100 gms for a man irrespective of marital status. there's no upper limit on purchase of digital gold. However, the maximum limit to buy gold in a single day is ₹2 lakh.
* As per a survey by economic research outfit PRICE (People Research on India's Consumer Economy), 5 lakhs per annum is the threshold for middle class category. The share of the middle class, with an annual household income of Rs 5-30 lakh, more than doubled from 14% in 2004-05 to 31% in 2021, and is projected to rise to 63% by 2047, according to a survey by economic research outfit PRICE (People Research on India's Consumer Economy). - TOI
* Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in India is a subcategory of people having an annual family income less than ₹8 lakh (US$10,000) and who do not belong to any category such as SC/ST/OBC across India, nor to MBC in Tamil Nadu. On 7 January 2019, Union Council of Ministers approved a 10% reservation in government jobs and educational institutions for the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in the General category. The cabinet decided that this would be over and above the existing 50% reservation for SC/ST/OBC categories. EWS certificate can be used to avail the 10% reservation for the GEN-Economically Weaker Section in higher education all over the India and government jobs.
* Rang De is an Indian peer to peer lending platform focused on providing timely and affordable credit to unbanked communities. It is a RBI registered NBFC P2P.
* Time changes by 4 min per degree of longitude. Russia & US have 11 time zones across its vast territory. France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12 (13 including its claim in Antarctica).
* Indian Standard Time (IST) is calculated from the clock tower in Mirzapur nearly exactly on the reference longitude of IST at 82°30'E, within 4 angular minutes. In 1905, the meridian passing east of Allahabad was declared as a standard time zone for British India and was declared as IST in 1947 for the dominion of India.
* Before independence, India followed three major time zones - Bombay, Calcutta and Madras Time.
* Cable ties are also known as zip ties because of the zipping sound that they make when they are closed around an object.
* Black Friday is a major shopping holiday that always falls the day after Thanksgiving – the fourth Friday in November.
* The Halloween tradition originated with an ancient Celtic festival, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. It’s also Pumpkin festival celebrating the arrival of fall & harvest time.
* Though Halloween is not an official celebratory festival in South Korea, the craze for costume parties has risen since the past few years. As many as one lakh people had gathered in Itaewon to celebrate Halloween as COVID restrictions were eased. The Itaewon area is popular among young adults for its trendy bars & restaurants & is the ultimate destination because of its nightlife. The mass death of more than 150 people due to cardiac arrest came as a shocker to everyone, especially those who had come out for the first time after two years to celebrate Halloween.
* 80 lakh people usually travel on the Mumbai suburban railways in a day typically often under super dense crush load conditions of 14 to 16 passengers per square metre (when the acceptable norm is 6 persons per square metre). Spread over 390 kilometres (240 mi), the suburban railway operates 2,342 train services daily. Trains most often operate far beyond official capacity – 2.6 times on average
* Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (1744) is one of the earliest surviving collections of nursery rhymes. It includes 39 rhymes which are still familiar today, such as ‘Bah, Bah, a black sheep’, ‘Girls and boys come out to play’ and ‘Lady Bird, Lady Bird’.
* "Nobody cares what you're bad at, and neither should you. Amplify your strengths." - Derek Sivers
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