This Week I Learned - Week #3 2025

This Week I Learned - 

* AI coding assistants Cursor, Windsurf, Github Copilot offer features like code generation, context awareness, tab completion, multi-file support, Chat, code review, customization and choice of models. Cursor & Windsurf are AI-powered IDEs built on top of Visual Studio while Github Copilot integrates with various IDEs — VS Code, IntelliJ, Neovim. Code. 

* The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book by Andriy Burkov is provided on a read first, buy later basis

* Certain pathogens, like viruses and bacteria, can cause long-term inflammation or directly damage DNA in ways that eventually lead to cancer. For example, hepatitis B and C viruses are key drivers of liver cancer. Some types of the human papillomavirus are responsible for cervical cancer. The bacterium H. pylori can cause stomach ulcers and cancers. The International Agency for Research on Cancer estimates that around 13% of cancers overall are directly caused by infections.

* Leading Chinese phone brands - like Vivo, Oppo, Xiaomi, OnePlus and Realme - are set to maintain their commanding 75 percent share of smartphone shipments in India in 2025. 

* India is now Apple's fifth largest market for iPhones. Apple has broken into the category of top five domestic smartphones by sales for the first time. 

* In Season 2 of the National Geographic India photography reality show, No Filter By IndiGo, judges Padmasri Raghu Rai & Imtiaz Ali pick the best of the photo essays of the places the participants and also their share tips on photography.

* The Kumbh Mela’s popularity has been doubling every six years.

* "The law is reason, free from passion" - Aristotle

* "My strategy is to reveal how mathematics is connected to the things that people love. For example, illustrating how it underpins the music we enjoy, or is hidden inside the buildings we love to visit, or the blueprint for some of the great works of art. We make the mistake in our education system of putting subjects in silos, but I believe revealing how mathematics connects across the curriculum can help people see the beauty in mathematics." - Marcus du Sautoy

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