Marcelo Goncalves

The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself - George Bernard Shaw

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Perhaps the greatest celebrity story ever here, about ROGER MOORE. Give yourself a treat if you've not read it.

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

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[Harrison Ford @HarrisonFordLA]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[Zak Brown @ZBrownCEO]

Oops! Wrong Team!

[B&S @_B___S]

Dog Plays Fetch With Himself

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Time required for a F1 pit stop from 1990 to 2023

[Andy Jassy @ajassy]

One of the most tedious (but critical tasks) for software development teams is updating foundational software. It’s not new feature work, and it doesn’t feel like you’re moving the experience forward. As a result, this work is either dreaded or put off for more exciting work—or both.

Amazon Q, our GenAI assistant for software development, is trying to bring some light to this heaviness. We have a new code transformation capability, and here’s what we found when we integrated it into our internal systems and applied it to our needed Java upgrades:

- The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what’s typically 50 developer-days to just a few hours. We estimate this has saved us the equivalent of 4,500 developer-years of work (yes, that number is crazy but, real).

- In under six months, we've been able to upgrade more than 50% of our production Java systems to modernized Java versions at a fraction of the usual time and effort. And, our developers shipped 79% of the auto-generated code reviews without any additional changes.

- The benefits go beyond how much effort we’ve saved developers. The upgrades have enhanced security and reduced infrastructure costs, providing an estimated $260M in annualized efficiency gains.

This is a great example of how large-scale enterprises can gain significant efficiencies in foundational software hygiene work by leveraging Amazon Q. It’s been a game changer for us, and not only do our Amazon teams plan to use this transformation capability more, but our Q team plans to add more transformations for developers to leverage.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Who lived when?

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

The difference between the men's 100m freestyle final 88 years apart. 😮

Los Angeles 1932 & Tokyo 2020.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Explaining a F1 Steering wheel's buttons

[🎞️ justf1car]

[Wise Philosophy @Wise1Philosophy]

Have a philosophy of curiosity.

Learning is painful but worthwhile.

[McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team @McLarenF1]

OSCAR PIASTRI! GRAND PRIX WINNER!!! 🏆
UNBELIEVABLE!
IT’S OSCAR’S FIRST F1 VICTORY!!! YES! 🧡

@OscarPiastri #HungarianGP 🇭🇺

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

World economy

[✏️ Visual Capitalist]

[Vincent Flibustier 👽 @vinceflibustier]

First day at Crowdstrike, pushed a little update and taking the afternoon off ✌️

[KITKAT @KITKAT]

Time to have a break... KitKat® anyone? 🍫

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Fun fact: nobody in New Zealand lives in the green areas (totalling 78.2% of the county's area).

All the population lives in 21.2% of the terrtory.