This Week I Learned - Week #18 2020
This Week I Learned -
* Azure is the first public cloud to offer virtualization infrastructure for confidential computing that uses hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs). Even cloud administrators and datacenter operators with physical access to the servers cannot access TEE-protected data. Azure DCsv2 confidential computing virtual machines run on servers that implement Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX). Because Intel SGX hardware protects your data and keeps it encrypted while the CPU is processing it, even the operating system and hypervisor cannot access it, nor can anyone with physical access to the server. By combining the scalability of the cloud and ability to encrypt data while in use, new scenarios are possible now in Azure, like confidential multi-party computation where different organizations combine their datasets for compute-intensive analysis without being able to access each other’s data. Examples include banks combining transaction data to detect fraud and money laundering, and hospitals combining patient records for analysis to improve disease diagnosis and prescription allocation.
* Oracle has partnered with Microsoft to provide low latency, private connectivity between Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure. For cross-cloud networking between Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure, set up a connection between a FastConnect circuit in Oracle Cloud and an ExpressRoute circuit in Microsoft Azure.
* English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, Stephen Hawking (1942 – 2018) was diagnosed with an early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neuron disease also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease in 1963. At the time, doctors gave him a life expectancy of two years. He died on 14 March 2018 at the age of 76, after living with the disease for more than 50 years. Hawking did not rule out the existence of a Creator. In A Brief History of Time, he suggested that the existence of God was not necessary to explain the origin of the universe. Hawking stated that, given the vastness of the universe, aliens likely exist, but that contact with them should be avoided. The 2014 biopic "The Theory of Everything" was adapted from the memoir "Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen" by Jane Hawking, his wife with whom he had three children - Wikipedia
* On 4 July 2012, CERN announced the discovery of the boson at the Large Hadron Collider. On 8 October 2013, it was announced that Peter Higgs and François Englert would share the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles". Higgs developed the fundamentals of his theory in 1964. Ironically, this probable confirmation of the Higgs boson was made at the same place where the editor of Physics Letters (a European physics journal edited at CERN, in Switzerland) rejected Higgs' paper. Higgs is an atheist. Higgs has expressed that he was displeased that the Higgs particle is nicknamed the "God particle", as he believes the term "might offend people who are religious". - Wikipedia
* Histomap, published by Rand McNally in 1931, is an ambitious attempt at fitting a mountain of historical information onto a five-foot-long poster.
* Plausible deniability is the ability to deny any involvement in illegal or unethical activities, because there is no clear evidence to prove involvement. The lack of evidence makes the denial credible, or plausible.
* Suspension of disbelief, sometimes called willing suspension of disbelief, is an intentional avoidance of critical thinking or logic in examining something surreal, such as a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it for the sake of enjoyment.
* Every decision that we take is determined by a variety of factors such as our confidence, our knowledge, our experience, and our willingness to call the shots. The threshold for all of these pieces coming together to help in the creation of a decision is where things can get blurry. The former head of US military forces and former secretary of state Colin Powell is credited with the 40-70 rule of decision-making. His 40-70 rule says that leaders should be taking decisions when they have between 40-70% of the information required for taking a decision. When you reach that sweet spot between 40% and 70%, then it’s up to your intuition to take the right decision. This is where most effective leaders are born, because it’s not just about the facts, it is also about the leader’s gut instinct. And those with an instinct pointing them in the right direction are the ones who will lead their organisation to success. Taking good decisions requires balancing the seemingly opposing forces of emotion and rationality.
* Richard Wagner was promoted during the Nazi era as one of Adolf Hitler's favourite composers. Historical perception of Wagner has been tainted with this association ever since - Wikipedia
* Indian giver is an American expression, used to describe a person who gives a "gift" and later wants it back, or who expects something of equivalent worth in return for the item. It is based on cultural misunderstandings that took place between early European settlers and the Indigenous people with whom they traded.
* India's current online university regulations allow only seven of our 993 universities to launch online courses
* The Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj is a confluence of 3 rivers, the Ganges, Yamuna, and Saraswati. Of these three, the river Saraswati is invisible and is said to flow underground and join the other two rivers from below.
* Both Shah Jehan and Aurangzeb killed their brothers & nephews to reach the throne. Aurangzeb is the only Mughal emperor to have imprisoned not just his father but also later in his life, his 3 sons, daughter and nephews to protect his throne. Aurangzeb's religious zeal exacted a heavy price both to himself and his nation. Aurangzeb changed the name of one of Hinduism's holiest cities, Benaras, to Muhammadabad. "I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing," Aurangzeb confessed to his son, Azam, before dying at the age of 89 in February 1707. The support of the people, so wisely won by Akbar, had been forfeited by the cruelty of Jehangir, the wastefulness of Jehan, and the intolerance of Aurangzeb.
* Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the "Spiritual Father of Pakistan", considered that the life and activities of Aurangzeb constituted the starting point of Muslim nationality in India. M.A. Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, has been hailed as the greatest Muslim since Aurangzeb. President Zia-ul-Haq, known for his Islamization drive, has been described as "a conceptual descendent of Aurangzeb" - Wikipedia
* Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II founded the fortified city of Jaipur. He was born at Amber, the capital of the Kachwahas. He was given title of Sawai by the Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb in the year 1699, who had summoned him to Delhi, impressed by his wit. Jai Singh had a great interest in mathematics, architecture and astronomy. He commissioned the Jantar Mantar observatories at Delhi (not functional), Mathura (disappeared a long time ago), Benares, Ujjain, Jaipur. - Wikipedia
* Sawai is a title of honor used in the Indian subcontinent, the word having its root in either Sanskrit language. Sawai literally means a quarter over one (1+1/4) in strength and / or intelligence. In other words it means - one and a quarter of an average man in worth.
* "Keep your enthusiasm. But let strict verification be its constant companion". - Louis Pasteur.
* "The key to a happy life is to accept you are never actually in control." — Irrfan Khan as Simon Masrani in Jurassic World.
* Azure is the first public cloud to offer virtualization infrastructure for confidential computing that uses hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs). Even cloud administrators and datacenter operators with physical access to the servers cannot access TEE-protected data. Azure DCsv2 confidential computing virtual machines run on servers that implement Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX). Because Intel SGX hardware protects your data and keeps it encrypted while the CPU is processing it, even the operating system and hypervisor cannot access it, nor can anyone with physical access to the server. By combining the scalability of the cloud and ability to encrypt data while in use, new scenarios are possible now in Azure, like confidential multi-party computation where different organizations combine their datasets for compute-intensive analysis without being able to access each other’s data. Examples include banks combining transaction data to detect fraud and money laundering, and hospitals combining patient records for analysis to improve disease diagnosis and prescription allocation.
* Oracle has partnered with Microsoft to provide low latency, private connectivity between Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure. For cross-cloud networking between Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure, set up a connection between a FastConnect circuit in Oracle Cloud and an ExpressRoute circuit in Microsoft Azure.
* On 4 July 2012, CERN announced the discovery of the boson at the Large Hadron Collider. On 8 October 2013, it was announced that Peter Higgs and François Englert would share the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles". Higgs developed the fundamentals of his theory in 1964. Ironically, this probable confirmation of the Higgs boson was made at the same place where the editor of Physics Letters (a European physics journal edited at CERN, in Switzerland) rejected Higgs' paper. Higgs is an atheist. Higgs has expressed that he was displeased that the Higgs particle is nicknamed the "God particle", as he believes the term "might offend people who are religious". - Wikipedia
* Histomap, published by Rand McNally in 1931, is an ambitious attempt at fitting a mountain of historical information onto a five-foot-long poster.
* Plausible deniability is the ability to deny any involvement in illegal or unethical activities, because there is no clear evidence to prove involvement. The lack of evidence makes the denial credible, or plausible.
* Suspension of disbelief, sometimes called willing suspension of disbelief, is an intentional avoidance of critical thinking or logic in examining something surreal, such as a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it for the sake of enjoyment.
* Every decision that we take is determined by a variety of factors such as our confidence, our knowledge, our experience, and our willingness to call the shots. The threshold for all of these pieces coming together to help in the creation of a decision is where things can get blurry. The former head of US military forces and former secretary of state Colin Powell is credited with the 40-70 rule of decision-making. His 40-70 rule says that leaders should be taking decisions when they have between 40-70% of the information required for taking a decision. When you reach that sweet spot between 40% and 70%, then it’s up to your intuition to take the right decision. This is where most effective leaders are born, because it’s not just about the facts, it is also about the leader’s gut instinct. And those with an instinct pointing them in the right direction are the ones who will lead their organisation to success. Taking good decisions requires balancing the seemingly opposing forces of emotion and rationality.
* Richard Wagner was promoted during the Nazi era as one of Adolf Hitler's favourite composers. Historical perception of Wagner has been tainted with this association ever since - Wikipedia
* Indian giver is an American expression, used to describe a person who gives a "gift" and later wants it back, or who expects something of equivalent worth in return for the item. It is based on cultural misunderstandings that took place between early European settlers and the Indigenous people with whom they traded.
* India's current online university regulations allow only seven of our 993 universities to launch online courses
* The Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj is a confluence of 3 rivers, the Ganges, Yamuna, and Saraswati. Of these three, the river Saraswati is invisible and is said to flow underground and join the other two rivers from below.
* Both Shah Jehan and Aurangzeb killed their brothers & nephews to reach the throne. Aurangzeb is the only Mughal emperor to have imprisoned not just his father but also later in his life, his 3 sons, daughter and nephews to protect his throne. Aurangzeb's religious zeal exacted a heavy price both to himself and his nation. Aurangzeb changed the name of one of Hinduism's holiest cities, Benaras, to Muhammadabad. "I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing," Aurangzeb confessed to his son, Azam, before dying at the age of 89 in February 1707. The support of the people, so wisely won by Akbar, had been forfeited by the cruelty of Jehangir, the wastefulness of Jehan, and the intolerance of Aurangzeb.
* Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the "Spiritual Father of Pakistan", considered that the life and activities of Aurangzeb constituted the starting point of Muslim nationality in India. M.A. Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, has been hailed as the greatest Muslim since Aurangzeb. President Zia-ul-Haq, known for his Islamization drive, has been described as "a conceptual descendent of Aurangzeb" - Wikipedia
* Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II founded the fortified city of Jaipur. He was born at Amber, the capital of the Kachwahas. He was given title of Sawai by the Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb in the year 1699, who had summoned him to Delhi, impressed by his wit. Jai Singh had a great interest in mathematics, architecture and astronomy. He commissioned the Jantar Mantar observatories at Delhi (not functional), Mathura (disappeared a long time ago), Benares, Ujjain, Jaipur. - Wikipedia
* Sawai is a title of honor used in the Indian subcontinent, the word having its root in either Sanskrit language. Sawai literally means a quarter over one (1+1/4) in strength and / or intelligence. In other words it means - one and a quarter of an average man in worth.
* "Keep your enthusiasm. But let strict verification be its constant companion". - Louis Pasteur.
* "The key to a happy life is to accept you are never actually in control." — Irrfan Khan as Simon Masrani in Jurassic World.
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