This Week I Learned - Week #233
This Week I Learned -
* Azure Availability Zone & Azure confidential computing are among the newest features to be introduced.
* Azure Container Service and Azure Service Fabric run on Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
* ..the growing availability of high-calorie, nutrient-poor foods is generating a new type of malnutrition, one in which a growing number of people are both overweight and undernourished.obesity has been an unexpected side effect of making inexpensive processed food more widely available. Part of the problem, he added, is a natural tendency for people to overeat as they can afford more food. As multinational companies push deeper into the developing world, they are transforming local agriculture, spurring farmers to abandon subsistence crops in favor of cash commodities like sugar cane, corn and soybeans — the building blocks for many industrial food products.For a growing number of nutritionists, the obesity epidemic is inextricably linked to the sales of packaged foods, which grew 25 percent worldwide from 2011 to 2016 - NY Times
* ..credit bureaus have shown themselves time and again to be terribly unreliable stewards of sensitive consumer data: This time, the intruders were able to get in because Equifax apparently fell behind in patching its Internet-facing Web applications.
* Various ways that miscreants can monetize hacked PCs
* Krebs’s 3 Basic Rules for Online Safety
- “If you didn’t go looking for it, don’t install it!”
- “If you installed it, update it.”
- “If you no longer need it, remove it.”
* Commercial aircraft fly on autopilot for much of the time. For most pilots, automation usually ensures that operations stay well within safe, predictable limits. Pilots spend much of their time managing and monitoring, rather than actively flying, their aircraft. Transient icing of the speed sensors on the Airbus A330 flight AF447 caused inconsistent airspeed readings, which in turn led the flight computer to disconnect the autopilot and withdraw flight envelope protection, as it was programmed to do when faced with unreliable data...the crew of AF447 could not deal with the “automation surprises,” such as technology behaving in ways that they did not understand or expect...and AF447 crashed into the ocean...More automation reduces the risk of human errors, most of the time, as shown by aviation’s excellent and improving safety record. But automation also leads to the subtle erosion of cognitive abilities that may only manifest themselves in extreme and unusual situations...organizations need to be aware of the vulnerabilities that automation can create and think more creatively about ways to patch them.- HBR
* Australia's "magnetic" termites align their homes with the poles of the Earth
* The average life expectancy in the United States is 79.1.
* How to embrace old age
- Diversify your friends - try to have a friend “from every decade of life.”
- Get ready - The quality of your later life is partly under your control
- Embrace the positives - Find something to commit to improving, whether it’s tennis or cabinetry or helping others, especially younger people.
- Reject ageist attitudes - Too often, the myths create barriers or limits
* CallHealth is promoted by Sandhya Raju, the daughter-in-law of B Ramalinga Raju, founder of the scam-hit Satyam Computers - Rediff
* The latest circular by the railway board says that the passengers in the reserved coaches can only sleep between 10 pm and 6 am to allow others to sit on the seats for the rest of the time. The earlier permissible sleep time was between 9 pm and 6 am - NDTV
* The gains from investing in direct plans can be higher than the difference in expense ratios - Rediff
* The top mutual funds in the large-cap category, Birla SunLife Frontline Equity Fund, HDFC Top 200 and SBI Bluechip -- all with assets of over Rs 15,000 crore have four stocks in common in their top 10 picks. These include HDFC Bank, State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and Infosys. And the combined percentage holdings of these four stocks is over 15 per cent in all the three schemes' portfolios - Rediff
* India's insurance density is one-tenth of China's
* Educated youth in Hyderabad are taking to cyber crime to earn money.
* A private equity executive, Mr. Schwarzman donated $100 million to the New York Public Library in 2008, effectively buying the right to have his name on the main branch - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
* Bill Aitken, 83, gave up his British passport and became an Indian citizen in 1972. The procedure included placing an advertisement in Hindi in the local newspaper Almora Shakti. The route of his journey from England to India which he travelled at 25 years of age with 50 pounds (around Rs 1,000 in today's time) - England-Belgium-Luxemburg-Germany-Austria-Croatia-Serbia-Macedonia-Greece-Turkey-Syria --Lebanon-Jordon-Israel-sail back to Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India.Wagah was a quiet crossing at that time without the masculine theatre that is played out between Indian and Pakistan every evening. He caught a train to Amritsar to visit the Golden Temple and then onward to Delhi where he stayed at the Birla Mandir, which was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi with the condition that it should be open to people of all castes. For twelve years, every winter, he set out of Delhi on his motorbike to the Deccan and says the most beautiful mandir he has ever seen is the 13th century Ramappa temple in Telangana. He has written over a dozen books travelling through the country on his motorbike and trains including Seven Sacred Rivers
* "We are not born with religion, we are born to find our religion" - Bill Aitken
* Azure Availability Zone & Azure confidential computing are among the newest features to be introduced.
* Azure Container Service and Azure Service Fabric run on Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
* ..the growing availability of high-calorie, nutrient-poor foods is generating a new type of malnutrition, one in which a growing number of people are both overweight and undernourished.obesity has been an unexpected side effect of making inexpensive processed food more widely available. Part of the problem, he added, is a natural tendency for people to overeat as they can afford more food. As multinational companies push deeper into the developing world, they are transforming local agriculture, spurring farmers to abandon subsistence crops in favor of cash commodities like sugar cane, corn and soybeans — the building blocks for many industrial food products.For a growing number of nutritionists, the obesity epidemic is inextricably linked to the sales of packaged foods, which grew 25 percent worldwide from 2011 to 2016 - NY Times
* ..credit bureaus have shown themselves time and again to be terribly unreliable stewards of sensitive consumer data: This time, the intruders were able to get in because Equifax apparently fell behind in patching its Internet-facing Web applications.
* Various ways that miscreants can monetize hacked PCs
* Krebs’s 3 Basic Rules for Online Safety
- “If you didn’t go looking for it, don’t install it!”
- “If you installed it, update it.”
- “If you no longer need it, remove it.”
* Commercial aircraft fly on autopilot for much of the time. For most pilots, automation usually ensures that operations stay well within safe, predictable limits. Pilots spend much of their time managing and monitoring, rather than actively flying, their aircraft. Transient icing of the speed sensors on the Airbus A330 flight AF447 caused inconsistent airspeed readings, which in turn led the flight computer to disconnect the autopilot and withdraw flight envelope protection, as it was programmed to do when faced with unreliable data...the crew of AF447 could not deal with the “automation surprises,” such as technology behaving in ways that they did not understand or expect...and AF447 crashed into the ocean...More automation reduces the risk of human errors, most of the time, as shown by aviation’s excellent and improving safety record. But automation also leads to the subtle erosion of cognitive abilities that may only manifest themselves in extreme and unusual situations...organizations need to be aware of the vulnerabilities that automation can create and think more creatively about ways to patch them.- HBR
* Australia's "magnetic" termites align their homes with the poles of the Earth
* The average life expectancy in the United States is 79.1.
* How to embrace old age
- Diversify your friends - try to have a friend “from every decade of life.”
- Get ready - The quality of your later life is partly under your control
- Embrace the positives - Find something to commit to improving, whether it’s tennis or cabinetry or helping others, especially younger people.
- Reject ageist attitudes - Too often, the myths create barriers or limits
* CallHealth is promoted by Sandhya Raju, the daughter-in-law of B Ramalinga Raju, founder of the scam-hit Satyam Computers - Rediff
* The latest circular by the railway board says that the passengers in the reserved coaches can only sleep between 10 pm and 6 am to allow others to sit on the seats for the rest of the time. The earlier permissible sleep time was between 9 pm and 6 am - NDTV
* The gains from investing in direct plans can be higher than the difference in expense ratios - Rediff
* The top mutual funds in the large-cap category, Birla SunLife Frontline Equity Fund, HDFC Top 200 and SBI Bluechip -- all with assets of over Rs 15,000 crore have four stocks in common in their top 10 picks. These include HDFC Bank, State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and Infosys. And the combined percentage holdings of these four stocks is over 15 per cent in all the three schemes' portfolios - Rediff
* India's insurance density is one-tenth of China's
* Educated youth in Hyderabad are taking to cyber crime to earn money.
* A private equity executive, Mr. Schwarzman donated $100 million to the New York Public Library in 2008, effectively buying the right to have his name on the main branch - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
* Bill Aitken, 83, gave up his British passport and became an Indian citizen in 1972. The procedure included placing an advertisement in Hindi in the local newspaper Almora Shakti. The route of his journey from England to India which he travelled at 25 years of age with 50 pounds (around Rs 1,000 in today's time) - England-Belgium-Luxemburg-Germany-Austria-Croatia-Serbia-Macedonia-Greece-Turkey-Syria --Lebanon-Jordon-Israel-sail back to Turkey-Iran-Pakistan-India.Wagah was a quiet crossing at that time without the masculine theatre that is played out between Indian and Pakistan every evening. He caught a train to Amritsar to visit the Golden Temple and then onward to Delhi where he stayed at the Birla Mandir, which was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi with the condition that it should be open to people of all castes. For twelve years, every winter, he set out of Delhi on his motorbike to the Deccan and says the most beautiful mandir he has ever seen is the 13th century Ramappa temple in Telangana. He has written over a dozen books travelling through the country on his motorbike and trains including Seven Sacred Rivers
* "We are not born with religion, we are born to find our religion" - Bill Aitken
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