This Week I Learned - Week #27 2024

This Week I Learned - 

* Business use cases featuring interactive demos, architectural diagrams, and code samples developed with watsonx. 

* How Andrej Karpathy is playing around with generative AI tools to build visual stories

* The OCI Generative AI Certification course has some great learning material.

A slide from the OCI Generative AI Certification course

* Ola, the ride-hailing platform has discontinued its app’s integration with Google Maps and replaced it with in-house Ola Maps. According to its founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal, the move has enabled the company to save Rs 100 crore annually. Ola has also transitioned away from Azure.

* IMDb has shared a selection of its massive dataset on Tableau Public, which allows users to explore, create, and share data visualizations online.

* Raj Bhagat has hand-drawn a map representing every Indian city

* Try to know more than the client about their own product or service - "Research. Research. Research. Find out as much about your product as you can. Experience it. Read all you can. Sometimes a fact you find on page 42 of an annual report can be the key to the whole idea. A minor detail can be a spark". - Carl Ally, founder of the agency Ally & Gargano, 'Twelve Things You Should Know About Advertising' 

* Valve Regulated Lead Acid (VRLA) Battery is a type of rechargeable battery. They are also known as a sealed lead acid or SLA battery. In general, compared with VRLA, Li-Ion Batteries have higher energy and power density, longer life, they are not affected by self-discharge and can operate at wider temperature range.

* "In your career, the most valuable currency is not how much you know. It's how well you learn. In a stable world, success depended on building expertise. In a changing world, it hinges on evolving expertise. Potential is no longer defined by  ability. It's a function of agility." - Adam Grant

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