This Week I Learned - Week #2 2024
This Week I Learned -
* StackExchange & Reddit host forums on niche topics like Reverse Engineering, Web scraping, open source products, social behavior.
* Web Dev Handbooks by Flavio Copes
* Data gravity refers to the idea that as large amounts of data amass in a location or system, they attract additional applications and services, making data relocation more difficult and more expensive. According to the Salesforce State of Data and Analytics Report Analytics and IT Leaders’ are taking a multi-pronged approach to address Data Gravity -
* AI is like the trojan horse of Data Management - Wendy Batchelder, Chief Data Officer, Global Data Governance Leader, Salesforce
* LongShot's GenAI product FactGPT fact checks your content and cross-references it with credible sources.
* Ninite.com curates popular & free desktop apps. It tracks software updates so when you have to install, you know you're getting the latest version.
* Interesting use of emojis for polling that can be used by groups on forums like Slack & Whatsapp -
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* Studio Ghibli, Inc. is a Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo. Studio Ghibli films are mostly hand-drawn using rich watercolor and acrylic paints. The films use traditional methods of making animation where every frame is drawn and colored by hand. Computer animation techniques are used sparingly. Five of the studio's films are among the ten highest-grossing anime feature films made in Japan. Prior to 2019, Studio Ghibli opted not to make its films available digitally, feeling that physical media and theatrical events like GKIDS' Studio Ghibli Fest would work more towards their goal of mindful care and curation for their films. The studio heads changed their minds after hearing a quote from American actor and director Woody Allen about how there should be multiple outlets for feature films. The studio has been criticized for being reluctant to promote women within the company and regularly overworking its laborers, including on public holidays.
* Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki acknowledges he is $1.2 billion in debt: ‘If I go bust, the bank goes bust'. His book was originally self-published in 1997 before being picked up commercially to become a New York Times bestseller. Donald Trump did a literary collaboration with Kiyosaki in 2006 called Why We Want You to Be Rich, Two Men One Message, and a second book called Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich — And Why Most Don't in 2011.
* Several American prisons have banned Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power and The 33 Strategies of War as a security measure. The Sunday Times noted that The 48 Laws of Power has become the "Hollywood back-stabber's bible".
* 6:19 p.m. is when most Americans eat dinner. - WSJ
* About 40 countries comprising over half the world’s population will go to the polls in 2024.
* A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, usually built to store fresh water, or it may be a natural formation.
* "What can I do about the climate crisis?" Here are 326 things you can do
* Life runs on code - Bernd Bestel, creator of Grocy
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