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Gross domestic product, or GDP for short, is like the financial scoreboard of a country's economic game.  It tallies up the total market value of all the final goods and services made during a particular time period.  The formula to figure out this mega number:  GDP = Consumption + Investment + Government Spending + (Exports - Imports).  Courtesy: The Economist Courtesy: Visual Capitalist Top 15 Countries By GDP (1600-2019) - RankingCharts

This Week I Learned -  *  Gemini Code Assist can support you across key stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) like design, build & test and deploy. * Similar to the original GitHub Copilot "AI pair programmer," Google's AI-powered code completion tool, Gemini Code Assist, will be available for free in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor until November 8, 2024. The Gemini Code Assist + Google Cloud Code extension can be found in the VS Code Marketplace .  * With over 7,000 languages and countless cultural differences, AI has the potential to foster global understanding. The latest Kaggle competition invites Gen AI practitioners to fine-tune Gemma 2 for a specific language or cultural context . * Fail fast, and learn faster to thrive in an AI-augmented world - The chances of failure are very high in AI projects. You don't want to play it safe, because you can't. * "If you're in an organization with 500+ employees and you don't

Mirabelle is a customized version of the powerful Datasette tool, specifically tailored for exploring the Open Food Facts database —a collaborative, free, and open resource of food products from around the globe. Originally created by Simon Wilson, Datasette allows users to discover patterns in data and share their findings effortlessly through interactive websites. It's built on top of SQLite, a lightweight database engine used in popular applications like Google Chrome, Firefox, iPhones, Android devices, and more. With Mirabelle, you can query the food product database through a form - If you have basic knowledge of SQL, you can easily dive into the Open Food Facts database via an intuitive, user-friendly interface and customize the queries -  Plus, it offers built-in features to generate simple line, bar, and scatter plot charts, making it a versatile tool for both data exploration and visualization. By using appropriate queries, the data can be refined to generate meaningful