This Week I Learned - Week #19 2024

This Week I Learned - 

* The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 are available for reference purposes on Github

* While India generates about 20 per cent of the global data, its share in data center capacity is just 3 per cent.

* TimesFM from Google Research is a time series forecasting model pre-trained on an extensive corpus of 100 billion real-world data points. It is open-source under the Apache-2.0 license and can be utilized commercially, offline, on a local computer or an engineering laptop.

* India is fast emerging as a hub for data annotation services with flexible workers, mid-tier business analysts and even skilled data engineers contributing to build high-quality datasets. Data annotation, or simply data labelling, is the most crucial and foundational step for building high-quality datasets to train AI models, enhance accuracy, curtail hallucinations and build safety guardrails against inappropriate or harmful content - ET

* YTVideoTranscript is a free YouTube transcript generator built by Karthik Pasupathy with code written by Gemini. 

* Dementia is not a singular disease but rather a collective term for various conditions that lead to cognitive decline. Memory loss is a common early sign of dementia, often serving as a precursor to further cognitive impairment.

* Premiums of health insurance policies went up by more than 25% for 52% policyholders in India over the last 12 months.

* "...you're now at the center of the map. The map is based around you on mobile phones, our cell phones. We walk around and you're constantly in the middle of the map, so it's now the case that we have almost an edgeless map, and you are now central focus, you are now the object on the map around which everything else is positioned and referenced. And if we take that logically, some of our smartphone maps actually provide us with personalized information related to the sort of things that we do, the places we go, the restaurants we like, the hotel bookings we've got. So maps are becoming more personalized. They're becoming less detached from us as individuals and more personalized with more personalized content around us. So I think it's really exciting, there's lots of really interesting things happening in cartography, and they're largely based around this shift from a traditional more objective way of mapping to a perhaps more personalized form of cartography." - Ken Field, Senior Product Engineer at ESRI