Cereal

 Ceres is the goddess of agriculture, and thus "Cereal" is named after her.

Additional information is here

Daily Learning 1

 Universe has mass and light. We can see certain objects such as planets, moons, sun, stars, galaxies etc through our eyes or advanced telescopes. These heavenly bodies are huge. However 85% of the mass of universe is hidden in something invisible called as Dark Matter

Element Helium was first seen in Spectrum signature of Sun rays and later discovered in laboratory. It's name is derived from the Greek word 'Helios' (the Sun)

Source : astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry

Book : How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

 AI is the buzzword in Software Industry these days. Recently there has been lot of buzz on ChatGPT . It is definitely a fun application which makes you feel as if you are chatting with an all knowing person in a very human friendly way.

So when I got my hands on this Book (How to Stay Smart in a Smart World), I was very excited.

Here are the main storylines of this book

• Finding love through AI assisted matchmaking sites such as Match.com or any other such app or site is dubious and misleading. The main reason behind their failure is that people are not profile they create. Human nature is very complex and people are not very truthful in expressing what they are and what they want in these apps. Thus no wonder AI is a failure here.
• In a stable world scenarios such as game of Chess or Go, AI can definitely outperform humans. Also that is not because of Intelligence rather the fast computational capability. 

My newfound love for Rap music and artists

 It all started with a very cool rap song (Chill Kinda Guy) from Srushti Tawde. The song blew my mind. I watched and listened to it several times. Even played it for my team in scrum time. :-)

Now this brought memories of Eminem. His song Mockingbird has been my favourite. Recently heard "Cleaning my Closet" and "Stan". Amazing songs. 

Then one thing led to another. Got to appreciate the camarederie artists such as Dr. Dre, Eminem and Snoop Dogg share. Superbowl halftime show is just awesome.

Digital Rupee

 The notion of launching digital rupee doesn't make much sense to me. We already have UPI (for small retail transactions), NEFT and RTGS for higher value. Then exactly what value is this new technology bringing is very ambiguous.

I am yet to find any government circular explaining the merits of it. Ex RBI director Raghuram Rajan opposes it saying that it will give un-necessary edge to Public Sector (Govt owned) Banks and private banks (arguably more efficient) will lose out.

Storyboard in iOS

 Disclaimer - I am in the process of learning iOS and SWIFT application development. These are my learning notes with the hope that it can be useful to someone out there.

storyboard is a xml document representation of UI view. Here I have broken it down to very basic elements. As you can see a storyboard consists of one or more scenes. Each scene has a ViewController which contains view with subviews. Some of the views such as StackView can further nest other views. There you go, it is simplified now.

<document>

<dependencies>...</dependencies>

<scenes>

<scene>

<objects>

<viewController>

<view>

<subviews>

<imageView>..</imageView>

<stackView>

<subviews>

<label>..</label>

<stackView>..</stackView>

<slider>..</slider>

..

</subviews>

</stackView>

<button>..</button>

..

</subviews>

</view>

</viewController>

<placeholder>..</placeholder>

</objects>

</scene>

</scenes>

<resources>

<image>..</image>

..

</resources>

</document>