This Week I Learned - Week #2 2023
This Week I Learned -
* When doing Azure design reviews (or any review for that matter), Microsoft employees (such as FastTrack for Azure engineers) and Microsoft partners often leverage Excel spreadsheets as the medium of choice to document findings and track design improvements and recommendations. This Checklist Review Spreadsheet shared on Github has a button to import the latest JSON-formated checklist. There is also a web front-end for this tool in which the engineers from the Microsoft FastTrack for Azure organization have documented hundreds of best practices across different technologies so that anybody can benefit from them.
* "Kubernetes is a nightmare for the exact same reason that it is awesome."
* Terraform is an open source DevOps tool written in the Go programming language that uses Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) to define and provision your infrastructure. Terraform can help you provision resources through what is called a provider. A Terraform provider can be thought of like a plugin that wraps an existing API to create declarative Terraform syntax. The providers are open source and receive regular updates.
* Cloud management platforms (CMPs) are software that manage multi-cloud services and resources. As businesses move more and more towards using multiple cloud services at the same time, they need a way to manage them conveniently. Using CMPs helps organizations with:
- Governance
- Lifecycle management
- Automation of all managed cloud resources
- Many other processes that relate to or interact with cloud services.
* Core i7 does not mean a seven-core processor. The Intel Core i7 CPU generations include quad-core, hexa-core, and octa-core, and 12-core configurations. The physical cores largely determine the speed of a processor. But with how modern CPUs work, you can get a boost in speed with virtual cores, activated through hyper-threading. In layman's terms, hyper-threading allows a single physical core to act as two virtual cores, thus performing multiple tasks simultaneously without activating the second physical core (which would require more power from the system). Intel releases "families" of chipsets, called generations. You can spot which generation a processor belongs to by the first digits in its four or five-digit model name. For example, the Intel Core i7-11700K belongs to the 11th generation.
* "ChatGPT returns content with the eloquence and arrogance of a CEO at a press conference regardless of it being true or utter nonsense." - Christian Heilmann
* Microsoft had invested $1bn in OpenAI in 2019. Microsoft is in talks to acquire a 49% stake worth $10 billion in ChatGPT's owner OpenAI. OpenAI runs pretty much all of its products, including ChatGPT, on Microsoft Azure.
* GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters. GPT-4 has 100 trillion parameters.
* “Generative AI” refers to the technology that ingests large amounts of existing digital content to train itself to make similar stuff on its own.
* The generative AI Application Landscape map by Sequoia Capital.
* Microsoft’s Vall-E, an homage to OpenAI’s Dall-E art generator, is a new AI that has dubbed a “neural codec language model” and has been trained on over 60,000 hours of speech. Microsoft’s Vall-E can recreate a specific voice with just three seconds of dialog, allowing the user to simply type what they want that voice to say to create paragraphs or any other content.
* Azure for Executives podcast
* Google Dev Rel India Events 2022 - Cloud Talks
* Software Engineering at Google - online HTML version of O'Reilly book
* Experts say the ‘passion economy’ – where people do more of what they love – has heralded a new era of side hustles, in everything from craft to campaigning.
* Ten countries and one inter-governmental organisation European Space Agency (ESA) have a proven orbital launch capability, as of November 2021.
* Vitamin B12 is also known as methylcobalamin or mecobalamin. Cyanocobalamin is a synthetic form of vitamin B12 found only in supplements, while methylcobalamin is a naturally occurring form that you can get through either food sources or supplements.
* Aaron Swartz (1986 – 2013) was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. A prolific programmer, Swartz helped develop the web feed format RSS, the technical architecture for Creative Commons–an organization dedicated to creating copyright licenses, the website framework web.py, and Markdown, a lightweight markup language format. Swartz was involved in the development of the social news aggregation website Reddit until his departure from the company in 2007. In 2008, Swartz founded Watchdog.net, "the good government site with teeth," to aggregate and visualize data about politicians. Yuval Noah Harari described Swartz as "the first martyr of the Freedom of Information movement". The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, is a documentary about Swartz, the NSA and SOPA released under a Creative Commons License.
* Haldiram's was started in 1937 by Sh. Ganga Bishan Aggarwal (nicknamed Haldiram by his mom). The company has been passed over generations with a lot of drama. Even currently, there are three separate divisions (North, Nagpur, East) which run the same Haldiram brand. Haldiram's revenue is USD 1 Billion and profits are USD 100 Mn
* Karachi Bakery in Hyderabad was founded in 1953 by Khanchand Ramnani who migrated from Pakistan to India during partition.
* Bhanu Athaiya who won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design (1983) for Gandhi returned award to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because she felt that her family will not be able to take care of the trophy after her demise.
* Armed Forces Veterans Day in India was instituted in honor of Field Marshal KM Cariappa OBE, the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Armed Forces.
* Open Food Facts is the "Wikipedia of food", the largest free and open database of food products in the world. Open Food Facts Project was started by Stéphane Gigandet in France in 2012.
* Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest publicly held food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, since 2014. Nestlé was formed in 1905 by the merger of the "Anglo-Swiss Milk Company", which was established in 1866 by brothers George and Charles Page, and "Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé" founded in 1867 by Henri Nestlé. In 1947 Nestlé merged with Maggi, a manufacturer of seasonings and soups. Nestlé began developing a coffee brand in 1930, at the initiative of the Brazilian government, to help to preserve the substantial surplus of the annual Brazilian coffee harvest. Nestlé introduced the new product under the brand name "Nescafé" on 1 April 1938. Nescafé is a soluble powdered coffee that became an American staple during World War II. In 1965, Nestlé introduced a freeze-dried coffee brand called "Nescafé Gold" in Europe. In 1966, Nestlé developed a freeze-dried coffee brand under the name Taster's Choice.
* According to a Jan. 11 circular from NPCI, non-resident external and non-resident ordinary accounts can be linked with international phone numbers for UPI payments. Non-resident (external) accounts are used to park foreign income, whereas non-resident ordinary accounts are for domestic income earned by NRIs. Both accounts allow only rupee-denominated deposits.
* Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) now has 24 women bus drivers one of whom is a boxer. The Managing Director is a woman officer as well.
* Rule 5: Keep asking until they say yes. - 10 Rules for Radicals, Carl Malamud
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