This Week I Learned - Week #14 2023

This Week I Learned - 

* Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm is now available on Github. Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm is a set of services and jobs that are responsible for constructing and serving the Home Timeline.

* A well-run EA program can streamline cloud transformations using best practices developed from IT strategy, business policy, organizational planning, and stakeholder decision-making. 

How a potential Enterprise Architecture Framework for Cloud Adoption may look like  

* Amazon has a Digital & Device Forum for India

* The search feature on Archive.org shows a Timeline histogram for the results.

* A histogram is a chart that plots the distribution of a numeric variable's values as a series of bars. Each bar typically covers a range of numeric values called a bin or class; a bar's height indicates the frequency of data points with a value within the corresponding bin. 

* New York City’s public school system in January banned the ChatGPT chatbot from its internet networks and school devices because of fears over cheating and learning development. In the U.S. and across Europe, calls have been mounting to regulate the self-generative AI tool over concerns ranging from data protection to disinformation to job safety. Italy’s data protection authority said OpenAI had “no legal basis” for using the data it had amassed “to train the algorithms that power the platform.” - WSJ

* AI auto-narration is best suited for nonfiction titles, where narrators and readers aren’t as emotionally invested as with works of fiction - Scott Brick in WSJ 

* Josiah Ziegler, a psychiatrist in Fort Collins, Colo., created Intellectual Classics, which focuses on nonfiction works that are out of copyright and don’t have an audiobook edition.

* In 1982, William Porter and legally blind programmer, Bernard Newcomb founded Trade Plus Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based firm that evolved into E*Trade, a pioneer in electronic trading that is now part of Morgan Stanley.

* Cyberabad police were shocked to find that an e-commerce business operator was maintaining customer data under 77 different categories, and these were leaked. The data-heist gangs operating from Delhi and Noida that were busted just weeks ago, were operating data sale business in the garb of a BPO. - ToI

* VC-unicorns are valued at $1 billion+ but may have chimeric value because they may have minimal sales. Melanie Perkins of Canva built a real-unicorn with sales and value over $1 billion. By delaying VC, she controlled the venture and the wealth. - Forbes