This Week I Learned - Week #40 2024

This Week I Learned - 

* Gemini Code Assist can support you across key stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) like design, build & test and deploy.

* Similar to the original GitHub Copilot "AI pair programmer," Google's AI-powered code completion tool, Gemini Code Assist, will be available for free in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor until November 8, 2024. The Gemini Code Assist + Google Cloud Code extension can be found in the VS Code Marketplace. 

* With over 7,000 languages and countless cultural differences, AI has the potential to foster global understanding. The latest Kaggle competition invites Gen AI practitioners to fine-tune Gemma 2 for a specific language or cultural context.

* Fail fast, and learn faster to thrive in an AI-augmented world - The chances of failure are very high in AI projects. You don't want to play it safe, because you can't.

* "If you're in an organization with 500+ employees and you don't have a backlog of 25+ AI use cases, with at least 5 actively in progress, you're effectively falling behind, today."  - Tobias Zwingmann 

* Google Drive offers a storage solution, while Google One provides a subscription service that expands your storage across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. Google One allows you to share your plan with family members.

* Sabre, Amadeus and Travelport are technology providers to the global travel industry. 

* Larry Ellison owns 43% of Oracle.

* China accounts for a quarter of all luxury item sales.

* On an average a well fed pigeon produces around 11.3 kg of toxic droppings per year. Dried droppings contain spores which if inhaled may lead to respiratory illness or even death. - India Today

* "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

* ‘‘no man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot’’ - Bernard Shaw

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