Weekly Update 3 - Sep 13, 2020

This is the third instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 13, 2020). Word count at 800.

Some interesting items from the past week

The AIIMS Story

I happened to read about the founder of AIIMS - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. This piece from Indian Express details on how she dreamt about an institute for medical higher education in India.

Weekly Update - Sep 6, 2020

This is the second instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 6, 2020).

Some interesting news the past week

  • Monday’s news feed is filled with Chinese law that hurdles sale of TikTok to American entity.

Chinese officials revised rules that govern the sale of certain kinds of technology to foreign buyers. The updated list includes data processing, speech and text recognition — the kind of tech that experts say is used by the popular short-form video app. - CNN

Weekly Update - Aug 30, 2020

Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (August 30, 2020).

Positive News

  1. Apart from recoveries, I don’t see any positive news in the last week. As of 29th, the number of recovery is 2.712M, with total cases at 3.539M. Recovery rate @ 75+

Negative News

  1. As if the COVID-19 pandemic is not enough, the state of Assam is worst affected by flood in Brahmaputra river.

What makes Rust interesting?

Podcasts. That’s how I got introduced to the Rust language.

In one of the PythonBytes episode I heard about the PyOxidizer for the first time. Basically, it uses Rust to bundle Python code into an executable code. There is already quite a number of modules to convert code into an executable file. According to Michael Kennedy, the Git repo is so active, that made me to explore what the PyOxidizer is made of. Surprise, Surprise! Its made an amalgamation of Rust and Python, in 80-20 ratio.