Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

Dan Go, a High Performance Coach to entrepreneurs points that an average person spends 4-5 hours a day on their phone . If they did this from the ages of 20 to 80 they would have spent a total of 10+ years of their lives on a screen. It's not the phones themselves that cause addiction. Addiction largely comes from the apps themselves. They are designed to capture your attention by altering some serious chemistry in your brain. He has the following suggestions to tackle phone addiction: Cultivate awareness by tracking screentime. Most smartphones come with a built-in feature that is usually called "Screen Time", "Digital Wellbeing" or a similar variation. Typical view on Vivo phones Typical view on Samsung phones Typical view on iPhone Remove triggers. Only keep essential apps on your phone. Make your phone ugly. Set your phone to greyscale/black & white. Change the environment. The best way to reduce phone time is to remove it from your environment entirely....

Thinking Like an Analyst is a 5-hour course for aspiring analytics & BI professionals looking to build the foundation for a successful career to understand what it takes to be a Data Analyst. It covers the following: Why Analytics? Data Analysis Workflow Measurement Planning Data Prep & Analysis Visualization & Dashboards The Analyst Toolkit These topics are well-explained with the help of frameworks & case studies. The key takeaways are highlighted at the end of each section.  Practical and engaging real-world advice, along with shared best practices, enriches the content.  The slide deck used during the course can be downloaded to follow along and also for future reference. I liked how the iterative process of designing and presenting the data on a dashboard is explained through progressive steps in a case study - Define the purpose > Choose the right metrics > Present the data effectively >  Eliminate clutter & noise > Use layout to fo...

This Week I Learned -  *  Azure Migrate application and code assessment tool for .NET (or AppCAT for short) allows you to assess .NET source code, configurations, and binaries of your application to identify potential issues and opportunities when migrating an app to Azure. AppCAT is available in two “flavors” – as a Visual Studio extension and as a .NET CLI tool.   *  On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models  - a 12 page report from the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) at Stanford University  *  The only way for paid subscribers to report an OpenAI issue is through their chatbot developed using GPT-3 at help.openai.com * The expanding use of artificial intelligence could also influence how we book online, what happens when flights are canceled or delayed and even how much we pay for tickets. * As of 2022, the number of developers on GitHub in India was more than eight million . More than 10 million software p...