This Week I Learned - Week #52 2023
This Week I Learned -
* JSONBin.io provides a simple REST interface to store & retrieve your JSON data from the cloud.
* 10 Ways to Add Value to Your Dashboards with Maps by Sarah Battersby, Research Scientist, Tableau [PDF, 17 pages]
* IBM MQ was launched in 1993. It was originally called MQSeries and was renamed WebSphere MQ in 2002. It was renamed to IBM MQ in 2014. IBM MQ is a very successful product widely used in the financial sector.
* The AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification exam covers the most services (around 98) while the Security - Specialty exam covers the least.
* Perplexity Lab's LLMs, pplx-7b-online and pplx-70b-online, are online LLMs because they can use knowledge from the internet, and thus can leverage the most up-to-date information when forming a response. These online models are accessible for free via Perplexity Lab's LLM playground.
* Perplexity Lab's pplx-api has been designed to be one of the fastest ways to access open-source LLMs like Mistral 7B, Llama2 13B, Code Llama 34B, Llama2 70B, (code generation language model) replit-code-v1.5-3b models.
* NY Times has filed a complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft. It has cited 100 examples of alleged copyright violations with nearly identical content being outputted by ChatGPT as part of the lawsuit. The lawsuit rips a gigantic hole into the presentation of OpenAI as a benevolent nonprofit.
Despite its early promises of altruism, OpenAI quickly became a multi-billion-dollar for-profit business built in large part on the unlicensed exploitation of copyrighted works belonging to The Times and others. Just three years after its founding, OpenAI shed its exclusively nonprofit status. It created OpenAI LP in March 2019, a for-profit company dedicated to conducting the lion's share of OpenAI's operations—including product development—and to raising capital from investors seeking a return. OpenAI's corporate structure grew into an intricate web of for-profit holding, operating, and shell companies that manage OpenAI's day-to-day operations and grant OpenAI's investors (most prominently, Microsoft) authority and influence over OpenAI's operations, all while raising billions in capital from investors. The result: OpenAI today is a commercial enterprise valued as high as $90 billion, with revenues projected to be over $1 billion in 2024.
* Foodvisor app can recognize food items, estimate the quantity and provide nutritional information. Foodvisor provides a food recognition API that can be used to identify and classify food items in images. Trained on an dataset of 10 million images, this API can recognize 20,000 foods with a 95% precision rate. Foodvisor's paid API offers the following features:
Image classification
Multiple items detection
Quantity estimation
Macro nutritional analysis
Full nutritional analysis
* BeReal is a French photo-sharing app founded in 2020 that took off on college campuses. The BeReal app eliminates filters and the need to stage, overthink or edit images and encourages its users to show their friends who they really are.
* Teddy Mobile is mobile call management and caller ID tool. Teddy Bear Mobile is a Chinese company founded in 2014. It is installed by default on some Android phones.
* GS1 DataMatrix is a matrix (2D or two-dimensional) barcode which may be printed as a square or rectangular symbol made up of individual dots or squares. GS1 DataMatrix is used for healthcare products to improve patient safety needs. The expiration date and batch number are used in combination with the GTIN to provide traceability and ensure out-of-date products are never administered. The GTIN is a globally unique identification number for medical products.
* Success of a startup heavily depends on minimizing the number of variables that can go wrong...tough variable...doesn't mean we should stop solving hard problems. It's all about:
- Are you okay to deal with such factors?
- Do you have the bandwidth (mental, physical, and financial) to tackle this?
- Are you okay to work with the odds of success?
- Are you okay with the effort that needs to be put in for the ROI?
- Is it the right product to build for you at this point in time?
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* The A350-900 can fly non-stop for approximately 16-17 hours, covering 15,400 km
* Building A Second Brain is a methodology for saving and systematically reminding us of the ideas, inspirations, insights, and connections we’ve gained through our experience. It expands our memory and our intellect using the modern tools of technology and networks.
Fundamentally, there are four steps to this process, instituted as habits into your personal productivity system - CODE:
- Collect - a designated place for ideas, references, etc
- Organize - organize content into Projects, Areas, Resources and Archives (PARA)
- Distil - progressive summarization
- Express - share/harness
* Manifest destiny is the philosophy that expansion westward was a duty for white Americans to settle the continent through conquering the land. It was an early expression of American imperialism in the United States of America. This process of expansion was at the expense and devastation of Native people and culture.
* Metabolism is multi-faceted, but can be thought of as the process by which your body converts input (food & drink) into energy. The health of this process is crucial as it directly relates to your long-term risk for heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and more immediate concerns like your energy on any given Tuesday. One of the best ways to get a read on your metabolism is by measuring your blood sugar. Stress and glycemic index can influence blood sugar. The glycemic index is a metric used to determine how much a specific food will spike blood sugar levels. A lower number means a more stable response. Stress tends to increase your blood sugar as your body mounts a response against the perceived threat by releasing glucose (energy) from storage.
* Oura Ring can track & analyse sleep patterns and metrics like overnight Sp02
* MDF or Medium Density Fiberboard is made from pulverized wood fibers blended with resins and pressed into sheets under temperature and pressure. MDF is less expensive than wood. In general, MDF has better fire-resistant qualities than most other engineered wood. High-density fibreboard is another wood alternative that is denser and stronger than standard MDF. It is less expensive than solid wood and plywood HDF is best used for applications that require high strength and durability, such as flooring, countertops, and wall panelling. Both MDF and HDF are denser and more stable than particleboard, another type of engineered wood. Particle board uses wood chips as its primary material, while MDF and HDF are composed of compressed wood fibers.
* Gypsum, a natural mineral in crystalline form, is a hydrous sulfate of calcium. Gypsum on a dry basis contains about 23% calcium and 17% sulfur. Although it is not an herb, gypsum is nevertheless a vital component of traditional Chinese medicine.
* Gypsum board, also known as drywall, is a panel made of calcium sulfate dihydrate (gypsum) with or without additives, typically used in the construction of interior walls and ceilings. It provides fire resistance, sound control, economy, versatility, quality, and convenience.
* Fresh water is vital for our survival, but only 2.5% of Earth's water is freshwater, much of which is frozen or underground. No less than 90% of all climate disasters manifest themselves through water: via flooding, drought or pollution.
* Every year, India produces about 65 lakh graduates but only about 44% are employable for tech jobs, according to TeamLease Digital. About 65% of India’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) graduates need to upskill themselves for entry-level jobs. Even in the mid- to-senior level, 52% need upskilling to remain relevant and competitive. Eighty-one percent of the Global capability centres or GCCs in India experience talent shortage. In fact, less than 2% applications qualify for a role. By 2028, India will be home to more than 2,500 GCCs. EY sees GCCs in India becoming a “profit centre” rather than staying a “cost centre”. - NDTV Profit
* Incorporated on Dec. 31, 2021, ONDC or Open Network for Digital Commerce is a Section 8 company. It is an initiative of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) to create a facilitative model to help small retailers take advantage of digital commerce. It is not an application, platform, intermediary, or software but a set of specifications designed to foster open, unbundled, and interoperable open networks.
* NIFTY 50, NIFTY Mid Cap 150, and NIFTY Small Cap 250 indices experienced 14.2%, 15.9%, and 17.4% volatility over 24 months. Till December 28 this year, the 30-share BSE Sensex has jumped 11,569.64 points or 19 per cent.
* Edible oils surged to become the third largest import commodity for India in the oil year 2022-23, with an import bill of around ₹1.38 lakh crore.
* The Cherlapally Central Prison has facilitated the educational journey of the inmates by providing access to the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University center within the prison premises. Since the establishment of this educational center, 164 life convicts have successfully completed their graduation, while 56 life convicts have achieved post-graduation milestones.
* "The answer is money so what is your question?" Don Ohlmeyer
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