This Week I Learned - Week #42 2023

This Week I Learned - 

* Cloud Product Mapping (AWS vs Azure vs GCP vs OCI)

* Although vector databases have been around long before ChatGPT, they have become an integral part of the GenAI technology stack, as vector databases can address some of LLMs’ key limitations, such as hallucinations and lack of long-term memory

* Vector databases store and provide access to structured and unstructured data, such as text or images, alongside their vector embeddings. Vector embeddings are the data’s numerical representation as a long list of numbers that captures the original data object’s semantic meaning. Usually, machine learning models are used to generate the vector embeddings

* Django web applications can be run on almost any machine that can run the Python 3 programming language like Windows, macOS, Linux/Unix. For Django 4.2 the allowed versions are Python 3.8 to 3.11. Django officially supports the PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, and SQLite databases, and there are community libraries that provide varying levels of support for other popular SQL and NoSQL databases. 

* Django 5.0 will be released in December 2023. It will be the next major release after Django 4.0 release that took place in December 2021.

* SCRCPY (Screen Copy) is a free and open source application that allows users to mirror their Android device’s screen on their computer. 

* Even the greatest athletes need coaches.

* 600 million Indians use smartphones.