This Week I Learned - Week #12 2024
This Week I Learned -
* Hard and soft skills for developers coding in the age of AI:
- Prompt engineering
- Code reviews
- Testing and security
- Communication
- Problem solving
- Adaptability
- Ethical thinking
- Empathy
* With AI gathering context of legacy code and processes within your repositories, GitHub Copilot Enterprise can help maintain consistency and best practices across an organization’s codebase when suggesting solutions.
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* briefsky.app is a free, open source frontend to a weather app that can be configured to use a variety of weather providers
* piped.video is a privacy-friendly YouTube frontend
* Emoji Combiner is an online tool to combine any two emojis to form an entirely new emoji.
* Google Cloud was the first hyperscaler to eliminate network data transfer fees in a move to support an open, interoperable ecosystem in January 2024. Two months later, AWS responded with a similar waiver for fees associated with data transfer out to the internet. Azure also now offers free egress for customers leaving Azure when taking their data out of the Azure infrastructure via the internet to switch to another cloud provider or an on-premises data center. Azure already offers the first 100GB/month of egressed data for free to all customers in all Azure regions around the world. This paves the way for a multicloud-by-default world.
* Among cloud VM instances, those having a vCPU:RAM ratio of 1:4 provide consistent performance.
* Monitoring tools can alert you when a service goes down or when performance degrades, much like a warning light or gauge on your car dashboard. Observability allows you to understand why things are happening. If monitoring alerts you to an issue, like a warning light on your dashboard, observability tools help you diagnose the problem. They provide deep insights into your systems through logs (detailed records of events), metrics (quantitative data on the performance), and traces (the path that requests take through your microservices). Monitoring is the process of using observability.
* The Planetary Computer not only offers a user-friendly Jupyter notebook environment but also provides robust hardware resources, making it exceptionally well-suited for machine learning endeavors.
* Using Open Database License or ODbL data means that if you combine your database with another one, you must also make it publicly available.
* Flat Data aims to simplify everyday data acquisition and cleanup tasks. It runs on GitHub Actions, so there's no infrastructure to provision and monitor.
* The UK NHS website offers a range of APIs that will allow you to syndicate content their content. Their APIs include a Medicines API that provides content about common medicines from the NHS website Medicines A to Z. It includes how and when to take the medicine, possible side effects and answers to common questions.
* Hemingway App is an AI assistant that makes your writing clear & fixes issues. This project brings large-language model and LLM-based chatbot to web browsers. Everything runs inside the browser with no server support and accelerated with WebGPU.
* 20 Top Generative AI Companies Leading In 2024
* Manually review AI-generated content at least twice before publishing
* DoorDash is the largest food delivery service in the US, linking local customers with nearby restaurants. It is among a group of tech companies that leverage logistics to offer on-demand delivery from a diverse range of eateries. DoorDash boasts more than 30 million active users each month and partnerships with hundreds of thousands of restaurants and stores.
* In 2021, Glassdoor acquired Fishbowl, a professional networking app that integrated with Glassdoor last July. This acquisition meant that every Glassdoor user was automatically signed up for a Fishbowl account. And because Fishbowl requires users to verify their identities, Glassdoor's terms of service changed to require all users to be verified. Ever since Glassdoor's integration with Fishbowl, Glassdoor's terms say that Glassdoor "may update your Profile with information we obtain from third parties. We may also use personal data you provide to us via your resume(s) or our other services." - Ars Technica
* Mustafa Suleyman (born 1984) is the CEO of Microsoft AI. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Inflection AI, as well as a co-founder of DeepMind, one of the foremost AI companies globally. In 2014, DeepMind was acquired by Google for a reported £400 million, the company's largest acquisition in Europe at that time. After spending a decade at DeepMind, Suleyman transitioned to Google, where he took on the roles of vice president of AI product management and AI policy. As an undergraduate at Oxford, Suleyman left his studies at the age of 19 to co-found a non-profit telephone counselling service. He is the author of the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma along with Michael Bhaskar.
* Richard Montañez was hired by Frito-Lay as a janitor and went on to become an executive in the company. He is best known for his claim of inventing Flamin' Hot Cheetos. This claim served as the basis for the 2023 film Flamin' Hot, directed by Eva Longoria. According to Montañez's account, when a Cheetos machine broke down, he took home a batch of unflavored snacks and seasoned them with spices akin to Mexican street corn. He pitched this idea to CEO Roger Enrico over the phone and was invited to deliver an in-person presentation.
* A philomath is a person who enjoys learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge.
* India is home to a sixth of the world’s population, and only 3% of the planets fresh water.
* "Relaxing is not the only way to recharge. Finding meaning is a source of fuel. Detaching from stress prevents exhaustion. Attaching to purpose elevates energy." - Adam Grant
* "Potential is what people see when they think what's in front of them isn't good enough." - American Fiction
* "When you grow up, your heart dies" - John Hughes, Breakfast Club
* The Lord is my shepherd, across the ages:
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