This Week I Learned - Week #20 2024

This Week I Learned - 

* C3 makes it easy to generate D3-based charts by wrapping the code required to construct the entire chart.

* Meta's PyTorch is a counterweight to Google’s TensorFlow

* Google has introduced Gemini Flash 1.5 (builds on Gemini 1.5 Pro's features), Gemma 2, Project Astra (real-time, multimodal AI assistant), Veo (video generation model to compete with OpenAI's Sora), and Imagen 3 (image generation model) at Google I/O 2024. 

* An A.I. robot named Sophia gave a commencement address at Buffalo’s D’Youville University. - NYT

* Under a new law, Florida’s state government is no longer required to consider climate change in energy policy. The law also repeals grant programs encouraging renewable energy. - NYT

* The India Meteorological Department (IMD) provides a range of alerts related to rainfall forecasts, including color-coded warnings for heavy rainfall, extreme weather events, and monsoon progress tracking. A red alert indicates heavy to extremely heavy rain of over 20 cm in 24 hours, while an orange alert means very heavy rain (6 cm to 20 cm). A yellow alert means heavy rainfall between 6 cm and 11 cm.

* Nearly a quarter of BJP candidates are defectors - ToI

* Doctors joining Politics - Kavya Srihari, daughter of veteran politician Kadiyam Srihari, recently left BRS to join Congress and contest from Warangal parliamentary constituency. This move is significant given her father's original political roots in Telugu Desam Party (TDP), a party once opposed to Congress. Kavya's Baindla caste, a sub-caste of Madiga, may affect her political prospects since Warangal has a large Madiga voter base. Kavya is a former pathologist. 

* There are 14 doctors in the current Telangana Legislative Assembly (2023). 

* "It is in love that religion exists & not in ceremony, in the pure & sincere love in the heart. Unless a man is pure in body and mind, his coming into a temple and worshipping Shiv is useless." - Swami Vivekananda (1897)

Distracted driving is getting normalized in Hyderabad and other Indian cities. Photo from a tweet by Team Road Squad

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