This Week I Learned - Week #2 2019
This Week I Learned -
* Azure Database Migration Service, the fully managed service designed for both operational database and data warehouse migrations, now supports offline and online migrations using the premium tier.
* CloudEndure, a provider of AWS backup solutions, cloud disaster recovery and migration, has been acquired by Amazon.
* The Aadhaar project in India is providing a unique identifier for every resident of India - 1.2 billion residents. The project uses MapR and Hadoop to create and maintain the world's largest biometric database, which can verify a person's identity within 200 milliseconds.
* ...extreme “knock-down”—the industry term for disassembly of products to make them easier and cheaper to ship to customers—is a big reason why that Ikea wardrobe is so affordable. Ikea’s flat-packaging engineers are included alongside product designers in the initial briefings for any new Ikea offering....global package designs are tested in Japan and South Korea “because those are the customers who live in the smallest spaces”. According to Jan Fredlund, an designer who works on these instruction booklets, there are two guiding principles behind every page: clarity and continuity. Continuity, meanwhile, is what separates Ikea’s instructions—even the maddening ones—from those of other brands. The Lego-like, frame-by-frame illustrations are based on construction drawings, digital snapshots, 3-D models, and videos of test assemblies - FastCompany
* Some say that Ikea’s wordless instructions make assembly of its furniture as easy as it can be, while others are flummoxed by the company’s famous pictograms. At the very least, though, they help the company avoid the cost of translating instruction into multiple languages. The fact that Ikea manuals have the constraint of simple black and white two-dimensional illustrations forces the products themselves to be better designed to ensure straightforward assembly - BBC
* Francis Galton, Darwin’s cousin, is.. the father of eugenics. Eugenics has now acquired a bad reputation, but Galton was a polymath who made important contributions to science by introducing statistics and measurements in the study of genetic differences - from a book review of The Gene
* The Government of India conferred Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-American physician, biologist, oncologist, and author, its fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 2014 - Wikipedia
* Kun faya kun draws inspiration from Sindhu Bhairavi raga (14 m)
* Azure Database Migration Service, the fully managed service designed for both operational database and data warehouse migrations, now supports offline and online migrations using the premium tier.
* CloudEndure, a provider of AWS backup solutions, cloud disaster recovery and migration, has been acquired by Amazon.
* The Aadhaar project in India is providing a unique identifier for every resident of India - 1.2 billion residents. The project uses MapR and Hadoop to create and maintain the world's largest biometric database, which can verify a person's identity within 200 milliseconds.
* ...extreme “knock-down”—the industry term for disassembly of products to make them easier and cheaper to ship to customers—is a big reason why that Ikea wardrobe is so affordable. Ikea’s flat-packaging engineers are included alongside product designers in the initial briefings for any new Ikea offering....global package designs are tested in Japan and South Korea “because those are the customers who live in the smallest spaces”. According to Jan Fredlund, an designer who works on these instruction booklets, there are two guiding principles behind every page: clarity and continuity. Continuity, meanwhile, is what separates Ikea’s instructions—even the maddening ones—from those of other brands. The Lego-like, frame-by-frame illustrations are based on construction drawings, digital snapshots, 3-D models, and videos of test assemblies - FastCompany
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* Francis Galton, Darwin’s cousin, is.. the father of eugenics. Eugenics has now acquired a bad reputation, but Galton was a polymath who made important contributions to science by introducing statistics and measurements in the study of genetic differences - from a book review of The Gene
* The Government of India conferred Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-American physician, biologist, oncologist, and author, its fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 2014 - Wikipedia
* Kun faya kun draws inspiration from Sindhu Bhairavi raga (14 m)
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