This Week I Learned - Week #41 2022

This Week I Learned - 

* At the Google Cloud Next conference, Google introduced a new computer vision platform, Vertex AI Vision, that simplifies the process of building analytics based on live camera streams and videos. Currently, in preview, Vertex AI Vision is an extension of AutoML Vision that can train models to perform image classification and object detection. - Forbes

* Brendan Dahl's PDF Utilities:

• browser - explore the internal structure and contents of a PDF file. Handy tool for anyone who has to deal with PDFs that just won't render properly or won't get parsed properly.
• XFA browser - explore XFA contents of a PDF file
• maker - create a minimal PDF using the extracted font of another PDF

* The Movies App is a demo application built on top of the TMDB (The Movie Database) API. The Movie Database was started by Travis Bell

* Jitter measures the fluctuations in the speeds at which a stream of data is sent. A high jitter score can affect streaming and video calls, making them look and sound choppy or glitchy. Jitter is measured in milliseconds (ms).

* The term "glass cliff" refers to a situation in which women are promoted to higher positions during times of crisis or duress, or during a recession when the chance of failure is more likely. Put simply, women in these situations are set up for failure.

* ...multinational giants use loopholes in the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and Excise Laws to license their drugs as Ayurvedic/Herbal

* Walmart-backed PhonePe recently moved its domicile from Singapore to India in the run-up to its plan to launch an initial public offering on Indian bourses.

* Nagarjuna Sagar Dam is a masonry dam across the Krishna River at Nagarjuna Sagar. It was built entirely with local know-how under the engineering leadership of Kanuri Lakshmana Rao. It is now jointly operated by Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.