This Week I Learned - Week #42 2024

This Week I Learned - 

* Cloud native applications use DevOps automations features and enable continuous delivery and deployment of software changes that get released on a regular basis. Additionally, developers can use methodologies like blue-green and canary deployments to make improvements to the apps without any disruption to the user experience. 

Source - Oracle

* LLM Pricing Calculator

* Two new models from Mistral: Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B have joined Mixtral, Pixtral, Codestral and Mathstral as weird naming variants on the Mistral theme. -via Simon Willison

* Google’s Gemini 1.5 model large context window can process up to 2 million tokens at once vs. the typical 32k - 128k tokens.

* AI Assistance in Chrome Dev Tools is out now in Chrome Canary.

* The Visual Studio Code extension Live Preview can run your site on a local web server and auto-refresh as you change it. Google's IDX.dev has an in-built live preview. These reminded me of Microsoft's FrontPage & Dreamweaver tools that  made previewing web pages easy and were popular over two decades ago.

* Markmap is a combination of Markdown and mindmap. It parses Markdown content and extracts its intrinsic hierarchical structure and renders an interactive mindmap, aka markmap.

* Euclid (300 BC) devoted much of his life to writing the 'Elements', consisting of 13 books, the most successful textbook in history. Until this century it was also the 2nd best-selling book in the world after the Bible.

* Indian students make up more than one-third of foreign students in Canada

* States in the west and south collectively account for almost 71 percent of the India’s direct tax collections.

* National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) is one of the largest securities depositories globally. It has reached a significant milestone of Rs 500 lakh crore (US $6 trillion) in assets held in custody.

* In South Korea, all men between 18 to 28 should serve in the military or social service for about 18 to 21 months.

* Is ignorance simply the absence of knowledge? - "People tend to think of not knowing as something to be wiped out or overcome, as if ignorance were simply the absence of knowledge. But answers don’t merely resolve questions; they provoke new ones." - NY Times

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