This Week I Learned - Week #2 2020
This Week I Learned -
* A proximity placement group is a logical grouping used to make sure that Azure compute resources are physically located close to each other. Proximity placement groups are useful for workloads where low latency is a requirement. A proximity placement group is a new resource type in Azure. You need to create one before using it with other resources. Once created, it could be used with virtual machines, availability sets, or virtual machine scale sets.
* CPUs usually have between 2 and 8 cores. GPUs usually have at least a few hundred cores, and often more than 1,000 cores. GPUs are built for extreme parallelism.
* LinkedIn Sales Navigator, is meant for sales professionals to discover leads, understand key insights, and engage with personalized outreach.
* Dux-Soup is a lead generation tool for LinkedIn. It is a Google Chrome browser plug-in which works as a virtual assistant on LinkedIn
* Google announced in May 2019 that Kotlin is now its preferred language for Android app developers.
* A vial of snake antivenom costs about $2,000, and treatment of one bite can require 25 vials or more. Producing the medicine is difficult. First, venom has to be milked from the snake’s fangs, and it has to be done repeatedly to produce sufficient quantities. Then it must be injected into a large animal, usually a horse, to generate antibodies. The blood drawn from an infected horse has to go through a multiple-step process of purification to isolate its active ingredients. The resulting antivenom contains many nonhuman antibodies irrelevant to venom, some of which can create harmful immune responses. Some scientists think genomic technologies could be used to synthesize antivenom, and eventually treat victims more cheaply and effectively. Researchers studying the map of the genome of Naja naja, the Indian cobra found 12,346 genes expressed in the venom glands. Of these, they found 139 toxin genes, the ones that perform the biological reactions specific to toxins. As more snake genomes are completed, scientists may be able to combine species-specific toxins and create broad-spectrum antivenoms that could work against bites from multiple species - NY Times
* "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less" - Marie Curie
* "Drawing for me is a way of processing thoughts" - Hugh MacLeod
* A proximity placement group is a logical grouping used to make sure that Azure compute resources are physically located close to each other. Proximity placement groups are useful for workloads where low latency is a requirement. A proximity placement group is a new resource type in Azure. You need to create one before using it with other resources. Once created, it could be used with virtual machines, availability sets, or virtual machine scale sets.
* CPUs usually have between 2 and 8 cores. GPUs usually have at least a few hundred cores, and often more than 1,000 cores. GPUs are built for extreme parallelism.
* LinkedIn Sales Navigator, is meant for sales professionals to discover leads, understand key insights, and engage with personalized outreach.
* Dux-Soup is a lead generation tool for LinkedIn. It is a Google Chrome browser plug-in which works as a virtual assistant on LinkedIn
* Google announced in May 2019 that Kotlin is now its preferred language for Android app developers.
* A vial of snake antivenom costs about $2,000, and treatment of one bite can require 25 vials or more. Producing the medicine is difficult. First, venom has to be milked from the snake’s fangs, and it has to be done repeatedly to produce sufficient quantities. Then it must be injected into a large animal, usually a horse, to generate antibodies. The blood drawn from an infected horse has to go through a multiple-step process of purification to isolate its active ingredients. The resulting antivenom contains many nonhuman antibodies irrelevant to venom, some of which can create harmful immune responses. Some scientists think genomic technologies could be used to synthesize antivenom, and eventually treat victims more cheaply and effectively. Researchers studying the map of the genome of Naja naja, the Indian cobra found 12,346 genes expressed in the venom glands. Of these, they found 139 toxin genes, the ones that perform the biological reactions specific to toxins. As more snake genomes are completed, scientists may be able to combine species-specific toxins and create broad-spectrum antivenoms that could work against bites from multiple species - NY Times
* "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less" - Marie Curie
* "Drawing for me is a way of processing thoughts" - Hugh MacLeod
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