This Week I Learned - Week #30 2023
This Week I Learned -
* Pitch is a platform for presentations. It was started in 2018 by a team of eight co-founders out of a shared passion for creating well-crafted and delightful products.
* Flixx is a movie app created by Brad Traversy with Vanilla JavaScript. It uses the Movie Database (TMDb) API (version 3) along with the JavaScript library Swiper to create a responsive and user-friendly interface.
* Microsoft Places leverages data signals from Outlook and Teams to help with hybrid scheduling & intelligent booking to make the most of hybrid work.
* Microsoft Dev Box provides cloud-based workstations that are configured for development.
* Oracle University's Race to Certification Challenge includes free access to the OCI and Cloud Applications Business Process training and certifications, and two (2) free certification exam attempts valid from June 1, 2023, (12:00 a.m. GMT) through Aug 31st, 2023 (11:59 p.m. GMT).
* Google Colab, short for Google Colaboratory, is a cloud-hosted Jupyter Notebook service that requires no setup to use and provides free access to computing resources, including GPUs and TPUs. Colab is especially well suited to machine learning, data science, and education. It allows users to write and execute Python code directly in their web browsers.
* On Dataful.in, you can find clean, structured, ready-to-use datasets on various sectors related to India. Most datasets are sourced from relevant public data sources such as government websites.
* The goal of the current Kaggle competition is to recognize Bengali speech from out-of-distribution audio recordings. Muslim religious sermons in Bengali are often delivered with a pace and tonality that is significantly different from regular speech. Such ‘shifts’ can be challenging even for commercially available speech recognition methods. Google Speech API for Bengali has a Word Error Rate of 74% for Bengali religious sermons. To account for Bengali’s diversity, this competition’s data is intentionally out-of-distribution. Competition host Bengali.AI is a non-profit community initiative working to accelerate language technology research for Bengali (known locally as Bangla). Bengali.AI crowdsources large-scale datasets through community-driven collection campaigns and crowdsource solutions for their datasets through research competitions. All the outcomes from Bengali.AI's two-pronged approach, including datasets and trained models, are open-sourced for public use.
* Large language models like ChatGPT—work best in languages like English, where text and audio data is abundant online. Karya is building voice datasets in five languages spoken by some 1 billion Indians—Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, and Malayalam. Karya is a nonprofit launched in 2021 in Bengaluru that bills itself as “the world’s first ethical data company. It works for high-profile clients including Microsoft, MIT, Stanford and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. - Time
* Google was the 21st search engine to enter the market in 1998.
* Resume driven development - developers pick a new technology to use to learn how it works and fancy up their resume.
* Mostly every human is bad at estimating effort, yet also overwhelming confident they’re right
* James Stephen Donaldson (born May 7, 1998), better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTuber and philanthropist. He began posting videos to YouTube in early 2012, at the age of 13. As of 2022, the MrBeast team is made up of 30 people. His videos have elements of internet challenges, guest appearances, and reaction videos – three popular video genres online. Time magazine named him as one of the world's 100 most influential people.
* T-Series owns and operates the most-viewed and the most-subscribed YouTube channel, with over 246 million subscribers as of July 2023. On YouTube, T-Series has a multi-channel network, with 30 channels. The company's YouTube team consists of 13 people at the T-Series headquarters. Online revenue contributes to at least 60% of the company's overall revenue. The growth of T-Series' YouTube channel has been attributed to India's emerging online population. India's high demand for YouTube content and the lack of local content creators has contributed significantly to the rapid growth of T-Series. T-Series joined YouTube on 13 March 2006, but only started uploading videos in late 2010. In November 2007, T-Series filed a lawsuit against YouTube for infringing on the copyright of its music by allowing users to upload videos of its music onto YouTube. T-Series and YouTube settled out of court in January 2011.
* NVIDIA was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang. NVIDIA went public in January 22, 1999. NVIDIA 's core business is built around research and chip design, not chip manufacturing, and it outsources almost all of its chip production to TSMC.
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* Many investors, asked to describe themselves, describe their investment style as both contrarian and long term.
* What makes some countries riskier than others to operate a business in? The answer is complicated, because everything has an effect on risk, starting with the political governance system (democracy, dictatorship or something in between), the extent of corruption in the system, the legal system (and its protection for property rights) and the presence or absence of violence in the country (from wars within or without). Businesses operating in corrupt locales face a choice of either accepting corruption as part of the cost of doing business or operating at a disadvantage to competitors who are less scrupulous. Democracies expose businesses to more continuous risk, as laws and regulations can change when elections create government changes.
* Guar or cluster bean is a drought-resistant leguminous crop that is generally cultivated in northwest India and Pakistan for use as a vegetable, green fodder, and green manure, and for its seeds, as well as for the industrial extraction of guar gum. India grows 80% of the total guar produced all over the world. Rajasthan in western lndia is the major guar producing state, accounting for 70% of the production.
* Physiology is an integrative science which considers the function of each organ and organ system and their interaction in the maintenance of life.
* Climate change isn’t just making natural disasters worse, it’s making them occur more frequently in places they rarely did before. As the global risk of extreme events, and therefore extreme destruction, rises, so do insurance costs. - Vox
* Good conversation mixes opinions, feelings, facts and ideas in an improvisational exchange with one or more individuals in an atmosphere of goodwill. It inspires mutual insight, respect and, most of all, joy.
* After the independence of India, the Nehru administration saw the reform of the Hindu code as necessary for modernising the Hindu society as well as to forge national unity. The Hindu code bills were several laws passed in the 1950s that aimed to codify and reform Hindu personal law in India, abolishing religious law in favor of a common law code. Other personal laws inherited from the British rule, for Muslims, Christians and Parsis, remain unreformed, forming an issue of debate among women, religious, and nationalist groups.
* Under the Maharashtra (Urban Areas) Protection and Preservation of Trees Act, 1975, applications for cutting down more than two hundred trees which are five years or older and heritage trees are referred by the local (municipal) tree authority to the Maharashtra State Tree Authority. The related amendment to the Act and forming the State Tree Authority was enacted by former environment minister Aaditya Thackeray. As per a new amendment, local tree authorities can grant permission in all cases on their own. Opponents have accused Aaditya Thackeray of bringing in the earlier amendment (creating the State Tree Authority) to burnish his image as an environmental activist, and added that the intention was also to ensure that all files landed in the Mantralaya (the state government headquarters).
* The early 12th-century Sanskrit text Manasollasa contains recipes of vegetarian and non-vegetarian cuisines, which according to Mary Ellen Snodgrass, the editor of Encyclopedia of Kitchen History, preceded the cookbook writing history in Europe by a century.
* Theobroma was started by two Parsi sister Kainaz and Tina Messman in 2004. They grew their venture from a single cafe with just four tables to a chain of 50 outlets across India.
* Circular Journey Tickets give you the benefit of telescopic rates, which are considerably lower than regular point to point fare.
* Govt. of India has initiated the effort of Academic Bank of Credits (ABC) that facilitates transfer of SWAYAM credits to other Higher Educational Institutions.
* "Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization." - Peter Kropotkin
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