This Week I Learned - Week #4 2019
This Week I Learned -
* A Basic SKU Load balancer is restricted to a single availability set, virtual machine scale set, or a single machine. The Standard tier can span any virtual machine in a single virtual network, including blends of scale sets, availability sets, and machines - Petri
* Containers are not isolated from OS so the OS of the container must match the OS of the container host.
* By feeding audio from friends, family or vids of your favourite celebrity to Azure Cognitive Services, training a customised voice that sounds just like them, you can make them say whatever you want!
* Web2py is an open-source web application framework written in the Python programming language for rapid development of fast, scalable, secure and portable database-driven web-based applications
* Netflix's FAST.com speed test gives you an estimate of your current Internet speed. It also shows download, upload speed and latency
* "So, let's say you want to change the human body. You want to fix a mistake. You want to repair something. You want to improve something. Well, if you're going to reprogram human genetic material, you need a delivery system, and nothing works better than virus. It's like a suitcase. Yes, pack in genetic mutation, infect the body and the vector loads into the target cells. Getting it where you want it, how you want it, is the nightmare. Unless you have a map." - Dr. Marta Shearing, character in The Bourne Legacy, a 2012 American action thriller film based on Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne novels.
* The practice of infecting people on purpose is known as viral vector-mediated gene therapy. It may sound dangerous but that's not the case because the disease causing genes of the virus are replaced by therapeutic genes that restore functionality to the target cells without harming the patient. In theory. In reality, viral vector-mediated gene therapy is not without risks, one of which is triggering an immune response to the viral vector...To overcome the possibility, genetic engineers are working on manufacturing human artificial chromosomes (HACs) for delivery into target cells in the hope HAC vectors won't trigger an immune response - Erik Seedhouse, Beyond Human: Engineering Our Future Evolution
* The world has over 2,200 billionaires, which is more than twice as many as in 2008. India has 119 billionaires, after adding 18 in 2018. While billionaires’ wealth grew by 12%, the wealth of the 3.8 billion in the poorest half of the world population dropped by 11%. In India, the richest 1% added 39% to their wealth, while the poorest half added just 3% - Indian Express
* Naveen Patnaik's....circle of friends straddled the globe and his interests included books and films, landing him a small role in Merchant Ivory’s 1988 adventure film The Deceivers, which had Pierce Brosnan and Saeed Jaffrey in the cast - from Naveen Patnaik's biography by Ruben Banerjee
* A Basic SKU Load balancer is restricted to a single availability set, virtual machine scale set, or a single machine. The Standard tier can span any virtual machine in a single virtual network, including blends of scale sets, availability sets, and machines - Petri
* Containers are not isolated from OS so the OS of the container must match the OS of the container host.
* By feeding audio from friends, family or vids of your favourite celebrity to Azure Cognitive Services, training a customised voice that sounds just like them, you can make them say whatever you want!
* Web2py is an open-source web application framework written in the Python programming language for rapid development of fast, scalable, secure and portable database-driven web-based applications
* Netflix's FAST.com speed test gives you an estimate of your current Internet speed. It also shows download, upload speed and latency
* "So, let's say you want to change the human body. You want to fix a mistake. You want to repair something. You want to improve something. Well, if you're going to reprogram human genetic material, you need a delivery system, and nothing works better than virus. It's like a suitcase. Yes, pack in genetic mutation, infect the body and the vector loads into the target cells. Getting it where you want it, how you want it, is the nightmare. Unless you have a map." - Dr. Marta Shearing, character in The Bourne Legacy, a 2012 American action thriller film based on Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne novels.
* The practice of infecting people on purpose is known as viral vector-mediated gene therapy. It may sound dangerous but that's not the case because the disease causing genes of the virus are replaced by therapeutic genes that restore functionality to the target cells without harming the patient. In theory. In reality, viral vector-mediated gene therapy is not without risks, one of which is triggering an immune response to the viral vector...To overcome the possibility, genetic engineers are working on manufacturing human artificial chromosomes (HACs) for delivery into target cells in the hope HAC vectors won't trigger an immune response - Erik Seedhouse, Beyond Human: Engineering Our Future Evolution
* The world has over 2,200 billionaires, which is more than twice as many as in 2008. India has 119 billionaires, after adding 18 in 2018. While billionaires’ wealth grew by 12%, the wealth of the 3.8 billion in the poorest half of the world population dropped by 11%. In India, the richest 1% added 39% to their wealth, while the poorest half added just 3% - Indian Express
* Naveen Patnaik's....circle of friends straddled the globe and his interests included books and films, landing him a small role in Merchant Ivory’s 1988 adventure film The Deceivers, which had Pierce Brosnan and Saeed Jaffrey in the cast - from Naveen Patnaik's biography by Ruben Banerjee
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