This Week I Learned - Week #4 2023

This Week I Learned - 

* Some Microsoft certification exams like SC 900 now have a free practice assessment. 

* Google Cloud architecture diagramming tool - Usage instructions, icons

* Upstream Kubernetes is also known as native Kubernetes. Downstream Kubernetes is also known as distributed Kubernetes, software that is built on top of native Kubernetes and generally offers additional features to ease installation, monitoring, and security. - Containerization Readiness Guide

* Kong is an open source API gateway and platform that acts as middleware between compute clients and the API-centric applications. The platform extends the capabilities of APIs with the use of plugins. It is built for multi-cloud and hybrid, and optimized for microservices and distributed architectures. 

* Large Language Models (LLM) have incredible “memory”. GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters. That is about 350GB (175b 16-bit floating point numbers). Wikipedia has about 50 GB of text and 100 GB of images, but the internet is estimated to be 5 billion GB!

* To avoid copying formatted text & use plain text while pasting content onto a Word file use: File > Options | Advanced - Cut, Copy, Paste section | Pasting from other programs: Keep Text Only

* Amazon chose the name Alexa because it “was inspired by the Library of Alexandria and is reflective of Alexa's depth of knowledge

* "Google’s blameless postmortem culture is real, and it matters. I’d built a habit of setting aside any big-picture anxiety and focusing on the problem in front of me." - David Masover

* A forward looking AI policy designed by a Wharton Professor, Ethan Mollick for his students:

I expect you to use AI (ChatGPT and image generation tools, at a minimum), in this class. In fact, some assignments will require it. Learning to use AI is an emerging skill, and I provide tutorials in Canvas about how to use them. I am happy to meet and help with these tools during office hours or after class.

Be aware of the limits of ChatGPT:

• If you provide minimum effort prompts, you will get low quality results. You will need to refine your prompts in order to get good outcomes. This will take work.

• Don't trust anything it says. If it gives you a number or fact assume it is wrong unless you either know the answer or can check in with another source. You will be responsible for any errors or omissions provided by the tool. It works best for topics you understand.

• AI is a tool, but one that you need to acknowledge using. Please include a paragraph at the end of any assignment that uses AI explaining what you used the AI for and what prompts you used to get the results. Failure to do so is in violation of academic honesty policies.

•   Be thoughtful about when this tool is useful. Don't use it if it isn't appropriate for the case or circumstance.

* The wettest month on record for Auckland, New Zealand is July 1998 (30 cm or 11.81 in). January 2023 has already produced 32 cm (12.59) inches of rainfall.

* Rock salt is mined in its solid form, whereas sea salt is produced by evaporating seawater. One teaspoon of table salt contains 2360 mg of sodium. While the amount of sodium in 1 teaspoon of Himalayan pink salt is 1680 mg. Regular salt is mainly sodium chloride but Rock salt is mostly composed of sodium chloride along with a small percentage of trace minerals and elements. 

* Arugula (aru·​gu·​la) or rocket is an edible annual plant in the family Brassicaceae used as a leaf vegetable for its fresh, tart, bitter, and peppery flavor. It is a cruciferous vegetable, a cousin of broccoli, kale, cauliflower, turnips and cabbage. 

* Avadhbhihari Mishra is the founder of Mishra Pedha which he started after moving to Dharwad in 1933. Currently there are more than 50 branches.

* Bonnie and Clyde were an American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. 

* This year's Padma Sri award winner from Telangana, B. Ramakrishna Reddy is an 80-year-old linguistics professor, who has made immense contributions towards the preservation of tribal and southern languages like Kivi, Manda and Kui. He has also drafted a Manda-English dictionary and co-authored five books.

* Manḍa is a Dravidian language of Odisha, spoken in the highlands of Thuamul Rampur block of Kalahandi district.

* ICWA has been renamed as the CMA course by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. 

* For the past 15 years, India has consistently topped the chart of the largest remittance beneficiaries. Its $100 billion received amounts to 2.9% of its 2022 GDP.

* Zerodha Varsity has an extensive collection of stock market and financial lessons created by Karthik Rangappa. It is openly accessible to everyone.

* Right to have roads and footways in a reasonable condition is guaranteed under Article 21 - BQ Prime