Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

This Week I Learned -  *  Nice analogy : In human terms - Azure Security Center is me living a generally healthy life and watching for signs that I'm run-down. Azure Defender is my gym membership or vitamins that help improve or boost my health, and Azure Sentinel is the regular and specialists tests and treatments from my doctor, that alert me to specific signs that need investigating across my whole body, including my blood tests. * If your organization has many subscriptions, you may need a way to efficiently manage access, policies, and compliance for those subscriptions. Azure management groups provide a level of scope above subscriptions. You organize subscriptions into containers called "management groups" and apply your governance conditions to the management groups. * GKE users can now choose from two different modes of operation, each with their own level of control over their GKE clusters and the relative responsibilities related to GKE - Standard & Autopi...

This Week I Learned -   * Microsoft and a community of partners created   Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) as an open standard for representing machine learning models. Models from many frameworks including TensorFlow, PyTorch, SciKit-Learn, Keras, Chainer, MXNet, MATLAB, and SparkML can be exported or converted to the standard ONNX format. Once the models are in the ONNX format, they can be run on a variety of platforms and devices. With Azure Machine Learning, you can use automated ML to build a Python model and have it converted to the ONNX format.  *  Ngram Viewer 2.0 which was released in 2012, is based on 20 million books scanned by Google Books. That’s approximately one-seventh of all the books published since Gutenberg invented the printing press.  Publishing was a relatively rare event in the 16th and 17th centuries . (There are only about 500,000 books published in English before the 19th century.) So if a phrase occurs in one book in o...

This Week I Learned -  *  Starfield effect using vanilla JavaScript * PowerShell Core is the edition of PowerShell built on top of .NET Core (sometimes simplified to “CoreCLR”). PowerShell Core is cross-platform, available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, thanks to the cross-platform nature of .NET Core. PowerShell Core is launched as pwsh.exe on Windows and pwsh on macOS and Linux *  Azure Security Center Labs * Common Data Service, the sophisticated and secure backbone that powers Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, has been renamed to Microsoft Dataverse. * According to the Kaggle 2020 edition of the State of Machine Learning and Data Science survey, Scikit learn is the most popular machine learning tool, Tableau and PowerBI are the most popular business intelligence tools. Jupyter-based IDEs continue to be the go-to tool for data scientists while Visual Studio Code is in the second spot. *  Kaggle Learn & Fast.ai offer free courses on data science  * The pre...

 This Week I Learned -  * The cloud architecture frameworks of AWS, Azure and GCP  are based on common architectural pillars.  AWS and Azure have named their frameworks exactly the same: Well-Architected Framework while GCP calls theirs, Google Cloud Architecture Framework * Archive of the now retired MSDN Magazine issues   *  Offensive AI allows attackers to automate reconnaissance, craft tailored impersonation attacks, and even self-propagate to avoid detection.  * In 2014, Facebook used its user photos to train a deep-learning model called DeepFace. While the company never released the data set, the system’s superhuman performance elevated deep learning to the de facto method for analyzing faces . The latest generation of deep-learning-based facial recognition has fueled an increasingly powerful tool of surveillance. * Project Zero operates inside Google as a unique and sometimes controversial team that is dedicated entirely to hunti...