This Week I Learned - Week #49 2024

This Week I Learned -  

* “Over time, the architectural diagram is mirrored in the org chart of the organization that designs and builds it.” - James Gosling, the creator of Java, refers to himself as a "Software Engineer" 

*  Azure DevOps has been the end-to-end DevOps platform for Microsoft since it replaced Team Foundations Server, but in 2018, Microsoft purchased GitHub and also launched GitHub Actions. This session from PASS Data Community Summit 2023 explains how to set up a CI/CD workflow in GitHub Actions and how GitHub Actions is different that Azure DevOps Pipelines.

* Real-time inference means that your deployed model is constantly available on one or several instances, ready to process any data at any moment. Using Batch Deployment rather than processing requests individually in real-time, batch processing can be implemented where data is processed in groups and stored in a database on a regular basis. Open Food Facts processed and spellchecked 10,000 OCR-extracted lists of ingredients from product pictures with Mistral-7B for less than $2 using GCP Batch service, utilizing hardware and software optimizations. 

Image - Jeremy Arancio

* A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers and VP R&D, with the emphasis on startups and hyper-growth companies.

* A collection of Developer Tools 

* Getting Paid for Open Source Work - @Homebrew (and many other maintainers and organizations) fund their work through GitHub Sponsors. @mamiM did Japanese translations for @MetaMask after the issue was funded on Bounties Network. The Python Software Foundation offers grants for Python-related work

* A handy guide to financial support for open source

* Guido van Rossum began working on Python in the late 1980s and first released it in 1991 as Python 0.9.0. Python 2.0 was released in 2000. Python 3.0, released in 2008, was a major revision not completely backward-compatible with earlier versions. Python 2.7.18, released in 2020, was the last release of Python 2. From 2005 to December 2012, Van Rossum worked at Google. He worked at Dropbox from 2013 to 2019. After retiring in 2019, he later came out of retirement to join Microsoft in 2020. While at Dropbox, he contributed to engineering projects and advocated for the use of Python. He currently holds the title Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. Van Rossum shouldered sole responsibility for the project, as the lead developer, until 12 July 2018, when he announced his "permanent vacation" from his responsibilities as Python's "benevolent dictator for life" (BDFL), a title the Python community bestowed upon him to reflect his long-term commitment as the project's chief decision-maker (he has since come out of retirement and is self-titled "BDFL-emeritus").

* "To describe something as 'clever' is not considered a compliment in the Python culture." -  Alex Martelli, a Fellow at the Python Software Foundation 

* Official verification of identity on X and Facebook costs ₹6,800 and ₹8,388 respectively.

* 70% of iPhone purchases in India are on EMIs.

* The Olympic stadium in Montreal, Canada is nicknamed "The Big O" because of its doughnut-shaped roof. It's also known as "The Big Owe" because of the high cost of its construction and hosting the 1976 Olympics

* Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have developed a groundbreaking formula to calculate the 'carbon handprint.' While a carbon footprint measures the greenhouse gas emissions caused by a product, the carbon handprint quantifies the positive environmental impact it achieves. Finland's plan to become carbon neutral by 2035. It aims to go from being carbon neutral to climate positive, the blissful state where one is net zero on emissions and then sucks out others’ CO2 as an extra.

* There are four distinct species of King Cobras - Northern, Luzon, Sunda and Western Ghats King Cobra.

* Padma Shri Khader Vali is known as the ‘Millet Man of India’.

* Going by trauma emergency statistics, Sunday seems to be the worst day of the week in terms of accidents in Telangana. 

* Over the past 10 years, Telangana saw a sharp rise in the number of vehicles, with the total, across vehicle categories, increasing from 71,52,803 in June 2014 to 1,69,50,414 as of October 31, 2024 - a growth of 136.98%. The surge was particularly significant in the categories of four-wheelers and two-wheelers, excluding motor cabs. The number of four-wheelers increased from 8,84,870 in 2014 to 22,80,687 in 2024, marking a staggering 157.74% rise. 

* Greater Hyderabad contributes nearly 60% of Telangana’s total revenue. It houses one-third of the state’s population

* Since the implementation of a disciplinary mechanism by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in 2007, 2,652 chartered accountants have been identified as "prima facie guilty" of misconduct. - Times of India

* "Walking is man’s best medicine." - Hippocrates

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