This Week I Learned - Week #16 2020
This Week I Learned -
* While replicating a VM in the Azure Migrate project, Azure Migrate Server Migration automatically provisions several different resources in the same resource group as my project.
- Service Bus because Azure Migrate Server Migration uses the Service Bus to send replication orchestration messages to the appliance.
- A gateway storage account because server migration uses the gateway storage account to store state information about the VMs being replicated.
- Log storage account holds the replication logs that the Azure Migrate appliance uploads.
- Key vault - Azure Migrate appliance uses the key vault to manage connection strings for the Service Bus, as well as access keys for the storage accounts that are used in replication.
* Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.
* Top ten technology books for 2020 according to Gigabit magazine:
- Surveillance Valley
- Hooked
- Brotopia
- Architects of Intelligence
- The Innovators
- AI Superpowers
- iGen
- Elon Musk
- 21 lessons for the 21st century
- Hit Refresh
* The most common definition of continental Europe excludes continental islands, encompassing the Greek Islands, Cyprus, Malta, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, the Balearic Islands, Great Britain and Ireland and surrounding islands, Novaya Zemlya and the Nordic archipelago, as well as nearby oceanic islands, including the Canary Islands, Madeira, the Azores, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Svalbard.
* Fiji is the only country in the world to have a seven-dollar note, in honour of their national rugby sevens team, which won the Olympic gold medal in 2016. It is not just a commemorative note, but one that is in daily circulation.
* Chinese tech investors have put an estimated $4 billion into Indian start-ups. Such is their success that over the five years ending March 2020, 18 of India’s 30 unicorns are now Chinese-funded. TikTok, the video app, has 200 million subscribers and has overtaken YouTube in India. ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent rival the US penetration of Facebook, Amazon and Google in India. Chinese smartphones like Oppo and Xiaomi lead the Indian market with an estimated 72% share, leaving Samsung and Apple behind. A substantial 50% of top app downloads (combined iOS and Google Play Downloads) in India in 2018 included apps with Chinese investments, such as Universal Control Browser (UC Browser), SHAREit, TikTok, Vigo Video, etc. Chinese apps represent a challenge to the user’s data security as they require vast amounts of personal data; this is usually a bare minimum to provide users access to their interface. Chinese apps have always raised suspicions about cyber-espionage attempts and security risks in India. UC Browser is the second most utilised browser in India after Chrome, with an estimated market share of 17.09% and a user base of more than 300 million - BusinessWorld
* Aamir Khan starrer Secret Superstar grossed over Rs 800 crore in China - nine times the amount it did in India
* India occupies 2.4% of the world's area and 17.7% of the world's population
* The Spanish Flu infected 500 million or about one third of the world population in 1918. 50 million died in three waves of infection - World Economic Forum
* The practice of quarantine began during the 14th century, in an effort to protect coastal cities from plague epidemics. Cautious port authorities required ships arriving in Venice from infected ports to sit at anchor for 40 days before landing — the origin of the word quarantine from the Italian “quaranta giorni”, or 40 days.
* One of the first instances of relying on geography and statistical analysis was in mid-19th century London, during a cholera outbreak. In 1854, Dr. John Snow came to the conclusion that cholera was spreading via tainted water and decided to display neighborhood mortality data directly on a map. This method revealed a cluster of cases around a specific pump from which people were drawing their water from.
* Tree nuts, typically high in fat, will go rancid within a few months in the pantry. (Store them in the freezer to extend that to a few years) - NYT
* “Ultra high temperature” or “UHT” Milk is pasteurized at high temperatures then aseptically pumped and sealed into cartons.
* The average person's skin accounts for 15% of the body weight.
* Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist who found a correlation between primate brain size (for a given body size, have brains 5 to 10 times as large as the formula predicts) and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships.
* “A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time” ― Homer, The Odyssey
* "AI cannot be creative and AI cannot be compassionate....So for the highly creative highly compassionate jobs, AI doesn’t have a chance..." - Dr. Kai-Fu Lee
* While replicating a VM in the Azure Migrate project, Azure Migrate Server Migration automatically provisions several different resources in the same resource group as my project.
- Service Bus because Azure Migrate Server Migration uses the Service Bus to send replication orchestration messages to the appliance.
- A gateway storage account because server migration uses the gateway storage account to store state information about the VMs being replicated.
- Log storage account holds the replication logs that the Azure Migrate appliance uploads.
- Key vault - Azure Migrate appliance uses the key vault to manage connection strings for the Service Bus, as well as access keys for the storage accounts that are used in replication.
* Top ten technology books for 2020 according to Gigabit magazine:
- Surveillance Valley
- Hooked
- Brotopia
- Architects of Intelligence
- The Innovators
- AI Superpowers
- iGen
- Elon Musk
- 21 lessons for the 21st century
- Hit Refresh
* The most common definition of continental Europe excludes continental islands, encompassing the Greek Islands, Cyprus, Malta, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, the Balearic Islands, Great Britain and Ireland and surrounding islands, Novaya Zemlya and the Nordic archipelago, as well as nearby oceanic islands, including the Canary Islands, Madeira, the Azores, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Svalbard.
* Fiji is the only country in the world to have a seven-dollar note, in honour of their national rugby sevens team, which won the Olympic gold medal in 2016. It is not just a commemorative note, but one that is in daily circulation.
* Chinese tech investors have put an estimated $4 billion into Indian start-ups. Such is their success that over the five years ending March 2020, 18 of India’s 30 unicorns are now Chinese-funded. TikTok, the video app, has 200 million subscribers and has overtaken YouTube in India. ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent rival the US penetration of Facebook, Amazon and Google in India. Chinese smartphones like Oppo and Xiaomi lead the Indian market with an estimated 72% share, leaving Samsung and Apple behind. A substantial 50% of top app downloads (combined iOS and Google Play Downloads) in India in 2018 included apps with Chinese investments, such as Universal Control Browser (UC Browser), SHAREit, TikTok, Vigo Video, etc. Chinese apps represent a challenge to the user’s data security as they require vast amounts of personal data; this is usually a bare minimum to provide users access to their interface. Chinese apps have always raised suspicions about cyber-espionage attempts and security risks in India. UC Browser is the second most utilised browser in India after Chrome, with an estimated market share of 17.09% and a user base of more than 300 million - BusinessWorld
* Aamir Khan starrer Secret Superstar grossed over Rs 800 crore in China - nine times the amount it did in India
* India occupies 2.4% of the world's area and 17.7% of the world's population
* The Spanish Flu infected 500 million or about one third of the world population in 1918. 50 million died in three waves of infection - World Economic Forum
* The practice of quarantine began during the 14th century, in an effort to protect coastal cities from plague epidemics. Cautious port authorities required ships arriving in Venice from infected ports to sit at anchor for 40 days before landing — the origin of the word quarantine from the Italian “quaranta giorni”, or 40 days.
* One of the first instances of relying on geography and statistical analysis was in mid-19th century London, during a cholera outbreak. In 1854, Dr. John Snow came to the conclusion that cholera was spreading via tainted water and decided to display neighborhood mortality data directly on a map. This method revealed a cluster of cases around a specific pump from which people were drawing their water from.
* Tree nuts, typically high in fat, will go rancid within a few months in the pantry. (Store them in the freezer to extend that to a few years) - NYT
* “Ultra high temperature” or “UHT” Milk is pasteurized at high temperatures then aseptically pumped and sealed into cartons.
* The average person's skin accounts for 15% of the body weight.
* Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist who found a correlation between primate brain size (for a given body size, have brains 5 to 10 times as large as the formula predicts) and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships.
* "AI cannot be creative and AI cannot be compassionate....So for the highly creative highly compassionate jobs, AI doesn’t have a chance..." - Dr. Kai-Fu Lee
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