This Week I Learned - Week #44 2024

This Week I Learned - 

* The Turing Way is an online handbook – and global community – dedicated to fostering gold-standard reproducible research. It’s a cultural movement with the potential to transform data science

* Binder is a service that takes a GitHub repository containing Jupyter Notebooks and spins up a cloud-based server to run them. You can start experimenting with the code without having to install anything on your machine. Mybinder.org is a public service. It can only access public repositories. 

How it works -

• BinderHub (the backend of Binder) fetches your repo from GitHub. 
• Analyses the contents
• Builds a Docker image based on your repo
• Launches that Docker image in the cloud
• Connects you to it via your browser

* jupyter-repo2docker is a tool to build, run, and push Docker images from source code repositories. repo2docker fetches a repository (from GitHub, GitLab, Zenodo, Figshare, Dataverse installations, a Git repository or a local directory) and builds a container image in which the code can be executed. The image build process is based on the configuration files found in the repository.repo2docker is the tool used by BinderHub to build images on demand.

* Jupyter NBViewer is the web application behind The Jupyter Notebook Viewer.

* nbviewer renders Jupyter Notebooks as static web pages. It is a viewer to preview a project in the browser itself without downloading it. 

A Dataquest project Identifying Heavy Traffic Indicators on I-94 Interstate Highway has a public Notebook URL like this - https://community.dataquest.io/uploads/short-url/o3Ygh2fp9k5X0bEc0ybFBYmDzyd.ipynb

By appending "https://nbviewer.org/urls/" to the URL thus, the IPYNB can be viewed through a browser -https://nbviewer.org/urls/community.dataquest.io/uploads/short-url/eG7Q0Gxn6FRXxb9nxgE5fUQkx4D.ipynb

* GitHub Spark is an AI-powered tool for creating and sharing micro apps (“sparks”)

* Cybercrime complaints in India have increased sevenfold in the past four years

* Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) can infiltrate deep into the lungs and cause inflammation.

* Dermatologists use the Norwood Scale on patients to assess male pattern baldness. It is especially used to check if hair loss treatments are helping patients regaining hair. The stages are described with a number from 1 to 7 with a type A variant for the cases with anterior involvement.

Image: Wikipedia

* Why do all the planes flying over the Atlantic choose a specific narrow path?

Firstly, this is the shortest way between the USA and Europe. Secondly, there's an actual highway in the sky called the jet stream. The jet stream is a powerful air current that moves from west to east. It saves fuel and makes flights shorter and less turbulent. That's why flights from the US to Europe are usually faster than in the opposite direction.

* Puffin and Penguin Books are part of Penguin Random House, owned by the German media company Bertelsmann

* Nepalese billionaire Binod Chaudhary is the Chairman of CG Corp Global that makes Wai Wai noodles.

* Yusuff Ali is the Indian billionaire behind UAE's famous Hypermarket LuLu.

* Hitesh Chimanlal Doshi borrowed Rs 5,000 ($60) some 25 years ago from a relative to start trading hardware, electronics and instrument gauges. He is now worth $5bn after an IPO. He leads Waaree Group, one of the largest companies in renewable energy in India. Waree Energies is India’s largest solar panels maker. 

* In October, global funds have offloaded over Rs 94,000 crore ($11.2 billion), the highest-ever outflow in a single month. The previous highest monthly outflows of Rs 61,973 crore were seen during the Covid-19 selloff in March 2020. Nifty, Sensex have fallen to their lowest levels since Aug. 14. Nifty and Sensex registered the steepest monthly fall among major global market indices. The Nifty in October declined 6.6 percent.

* Gold outperformed equity benchmarks in Samvat 2080, delivering over 30% returns (surging from Rs 61,200 to Rs 82,400 per 10gm) compared to 25% from Nifty.