This Week I Learned - Week #44 2022
This Week I Learned -
* Azure Sentinel provides a cloud-based SIEM & SOAR (Security Orchestration & Automated Response) solution with the ability to detect, collect, investigate threats across the enterprises.
* AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is now AWS IAM Identity Center. It is where you create, or connect, your workforce users once and centrally manage their access to multiple AWS accounts and applications.
* You shouldn’t unintentionally lock yourself into an IaaS provider’s Kubernetes since you can easily lift and shift cloud-native applications. 10 anti-patterns for K8s Deployments
* A hard token is an electronic device that generates one-time passwords for logging into a computer system. A hard token provides an extra layer of security called multi-factor authentication.
* Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (Citrix ICA) is a proprietary protocol for an application server system.
* Terraform will be offers less code & no code options for cloud configuration.
* Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet is PowerShell’s counterpart to GNU wget, a popular tool in the Linux world, which is probably the reason Microsoft decided to use its name as an alias for Invoke-WebRequest. Invoke-WebRequest is more powerful than wget because it allows you to not only download files but also parse them.
* By crawling Facebook public profile pages for 1.67 million users in New York City, researchers [PDF] created a comprehensive and contemporary name list. Based on the name list, they developed a new and powerful technique for inferring gender for users who do not explicitly specify their gender. Having inferred the gender of most users in a Facebook dataset, they learnt gender characteristics and analyzed how males and females behave in Facebook.
* Open data available for India
* According to FairPlay, it is India’s most trusted betting exchange and a leisure gambler’s paradise
* Harvard Resume, CV and Cover Letter resources - CV samples [all links are PDFs]
* Objectivism is a philosophical system developed by Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand. She described it as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute".
* Pectin derived from mango wastes is a vegetarian alternative to gelatin which is used in medicines, capsules. Pectin can also be used in jams, jellies and pickles as a bonding agent. In India, 95 per cent of pectin is imported from countries such as China, Mexico, Brazil and the US.
* Swedish-Swiss multinational firm Tetra Pak's Recart is an alternative packaging for food products to replace tin cans. The new packaging, which has been in use in Europe over the past five years, can preserve food products for two years. Tin or even Tetra Pak’s cartons, which created a revolution in food packaging years ago, provide a shelf life of six months for milk and one year for juices and edible oils. The Recart, which can be easily transported and put on shelves, is a smaller version of Tetrapak but 67 per cent of it can be recycled. It can withstand higher temperatures, besides retaining the colour and taste of the products. It can be refrigerated and sealed more than 10 times for use of the product as and when a consumer likes it. The packaging is also biodegradable. The difference between the Tetrapak and Tetra Recart is that Tetrapak can be used to pack only basic liquids. In Recart, semi-liquids such as curries and pastes can also be packaged. - The Hindu Businessline
* Army personnel have to go through a rigorous physical regimen. A person with flat feet will not be able to cope with such activities. If foot arch is not fully developed it will not act as a shock absorber, instead shock will be absorb by the spine. This can cause problems in the back.
* Flat feet occur when the raised structure on the inside of the foot, called the medial arch, is especially low. This is very common in children when the medial arch is still developing. By adolescence, the arch is more fully formed. In most cases, flat feet resolve on their own. But for some, the medial arch never fully develops or may collapse later in life. 23andMe researchers have found 414 genetic markers associated with flat feet.
* After you provide a saliva sample, 23andMe uses genotyping to analyze your DNA. This means they look at specific locations in your genome that are known to differ between people. It then turns those results into personalized genetic reports on everything from ancestry composition to traits to genetic health risks. 23andMe genotyping (different from DNA sequencing) platform is a well-established and reliable technology for analyzing DNA. Their Traits Reports explores how your DNA influences your appearance, your senses, and other characteristics, ranging from eye color to taste preferences to whether you can match a musical pitch. Health Predisposition Reports show how your DNA can affect your chances of developing certain health conditions. Your personalized reports break down your genetic data, the science and potential next steps. 23andMe has sold 12+ million kits.
* S. S. Rajamouli’s RRR became one of the highest-grossing films ever made in India. The fictionalized story depicted the life of 2 freedom fighters - Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, who in reality belonged to two different timelines but in the movie merged into one.
* Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur, is the spot where Ambedkar converted to Buddhism.
* "The Simpsons are going to ____________!" episodes - "Bart vs. Australia" (season 6), "Japan (season 10), Tanzania (season 12), Brazil (season 13), England (season 15), Sweden (season 15), China (season 16), Italy (season 17), India (season 17), Peru (season 20), Ireland (season 20), and Israel (season 21)".
* Kalakand is an Indian form of cheesecake made from sweetened milk with chopped nuts and, sometimes, saffron and edible silver foil.
* Matt Groening is an American animator, author, television producer, and cartoonist who has a net worth of $600 million. He is best known as the creator of the popular show "The Simpsons", which is the longest-running primetime-television series in history.
* Christopher Hitchens (1949 – 2011) was a British-American author and journalist who described himself as an anti-theist, who saw all religions as false, harmful and authoritarian. He often spoke against the Abrahamic religions. In his best-seller God Is Not Great, Hitchens expanded his criticism to include all religions, including those rarely criticised by Western secularists, such as Buddhism and neo-paganism. Hitchens said that organised religion is "the main source of hatred in the world", calling it "violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children...Richard Dawkins said of Hitchens, "He was a polymath, a wit, immensely knowledgeable, and a valiant fighter against all tyrants, including imaginary supernatural ones."
* Despite poor educational facilities, Har Gobind Khorana completed high school and went on to receive bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from University of the Punjab in Lahore. In 1945, Khorana moved to the University of Liverpool, UK, under a Government of India Fellowship where he obtained a PhD in 1948. In 1960, Khorana became a naturalised citizen of the United States. Khorana shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968 with Robert Holley and Marshall Nirenberg "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis."
* The Supreme Court of India was established on 28 January 1950. Part of the benches that had delivered landmark judgments, including the Ayodhya land dispute, Section 377, and right to privacy, CJI D Y Chandrachud follows in the footsteps of his father and former Chief Justice of India, late YV Chandrachud, who was India's longest-serving CJI (7 years, 139 days). He is also known for expressly overruling the ADM Jabalpur v. Shiv Kant Shukla (Habeas Corpus) case in which the lead opinion was written by his father - former Chief Justice of India Y. V. Chandrachud. During his Supreme Court service, he has been on the highest number of constitution benches (five judges or more) constituted to hear matters on constitutional questions. In 2016, the Government of India enacted the Aadhaar Act, which is the world's largest biometric ID system. World Bank Chief Economist Paul Romer described Aadhaar as "the most sophisticated ID programme in the world". In the judgment dated 28 September 2018, the Indian Supreme Court upheld that constitutional validity of the Act by a 4-1 majority, with Justice Chandrachud penning the sole dissent. His dissent, which came to be called the 'dissent for the ages' noted numerous deficiencies in the proposed system and struck down in its entirety the Act as constituting a "fraud on the Constitution". In the celebrated dissent, he based his analysis of the Aadhaar architecture on five key aspects - surveillance, proportionality, Money Bill, inequality and individual identity.
* Baijayant “Jay” Panda is a founding member of Biju Janata Dal, a splinter faction of the old Janata Dal, which was created by Naveen Patnaik, the current Chief Minister.
* Landmark court decisions in India substantially change the interpretation of existing law. In India, landmark court decisions come most frequently from the Supreme Court of India, which is the highest judicial body in India. High courts of India may also make such decisions, particularly if the Supreme Court chooses not to review the case or if it adopts the holding of the lower court. Deepika Singh versus Central Administrative Tribunal & Ors. (2022) is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of India that widens definition of ‘family’. The Supreme Court held that a woman’s statutory right to take maternity leave cannot be restricted because she previously used child care leave for her non-biological children. The ruling expands the definition of 'family' in Indian law to include unmarried partnerships, queer relationships and single parent families.
* "The risks which the use of Aadhaar "for any purpose" carries is that when it is linked with different databases (managed by the State or by private entities), the Aadhaar number becomes the central unifying feature that connects the cell phone with geo-location data, one's presence and movement with a bank account and income tax returns, food and lifestyle consumption with medical records. This starts a "causal link" between information which was usually unconnected and was considered trivial. Thus, linking Aadhaar with different databases carries the potential of being profiled into a system, which could be used for commercial purposes. It also carries the capability of influencing the behavioural patterns of individuals, by affecting their privacy and liberty. Profiling individuals could be used to create co-relations between human lives, which are generally unconnected… When Aadhaar is seeded into every database, it becomes a bridge across discreet data silos, which allows anyone with access to this information to re-construct a profile of an individual's life." - Justice D Y Chandrachud
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