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OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!. For all summaries, please visit catchup.ourtech.community/summary. |
OTC CatchUp #109
Date: 10-12-2022
Duration: 4 hrs 32 mins
Topics Discussed
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General Introductions.
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We talked about people’s views and opinions about ChatGPT.
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ChatGPT knows the structure of how a sentence or a conversation should be formed but it lacks specificity and hence falls short.
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We also talked about how it might eliminate some jobs in the future.
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Tushar Nankani shared his experience of trying to write a professional document using ChatGPT and the result was quite convincing.
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He also said that he wrote the privacy policy statement for his project blurrit using ChatGPT.
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Harsh Kapadia shared a Youtube Playlist by thenewboston for Manas to learn C programming.
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We discussed some ways for how one could manage college and coding simultaneously.
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Harsh Kapadia shared how he gets to learn a lot from lectures in his master’s program and thus suggested trying sitting for lectures and if the teaching is good then finish it there.
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Handle all the assignments and complete tasks in college itself and do whatever you want to do at home.
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We talked about what TCP and HTTP are before Harsh Kapadia showcased his project.
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The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the most widely used protocols on the internet for reliable data transfer.
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HTTP is an application layer protocol for fetching resources such as HTML documents.
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Jay Kaku suggested some resources to learn CSS for Chiranjeev to solve his issues with CSS.
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CSS Tutorial - Zero to Hero (Complete Course) by freecodecamp.
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Coding Challenges playlist by thenetninja.
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Darshan Rander shared an article about Dart Beta 3 release.
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Tushar Nankani tried to debug his project, blurrit — to restrict it to WhatsApp Web and the shortcut key that clashes with the system
Ctrl + Shift + Z
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Tushar Nankani and Dheeraj Lalwani talked about how manifest v3 for chrome extensions lacks community support.
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One potential reason behind pushing manifest v3 could be related to reducing support for adblockers as most of the revenue comes from ads.
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Hardik Raheja and Darshan Rander talked about CBDC complementing, rather than replacing current forms of money.
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We also discussed how UPI works offline and the differences between e-Rupee and UPI.
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We discussed our experiences with DevFest Mumbai Meetup.
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Replit and GHFD meetup was referenced again.
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For more context check this part of the 89th CatchUp Summary.
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We discussed multiple perspectives about DevFest while trying to understand who the meetup was oriented towards.
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The event was mostly attended by students, and what differed were the intentions, motivation and expectations of the attendees.
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Overall, the meetup was a good experience with a sophisticated setting.
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Pranav Dani, Tushar Nankani and Hardik Raheja talked about human tendencies to click photos and videos and how it might affect one’s experience.
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Building upon its implications, we talked about how FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) is one of the factors that drive social media images.
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Saifuddin Saifee and Pratik Thakare talked about the subject of scrapping your old work.
Projects Showcased
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Harsh Kapadia showcased his rendition and Performance Comparison of TCP Versions.
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The project is about learning and comparing how different TCP versions respond to network congestion, and about comparing how fair different TCP versions are to each other.
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Hosted link for his notes.
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Tushar Nankani showcased void in the wild.
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Tushar Nankani also showcased his Chrome Extension, blurrit.
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Chiranjeev Srivastava showcased improvements in his Personal Portfolio.
Attendees
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Amit
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Anil Gohan
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Atharva
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Dheer Bathija
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Dhruv Vaidya
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Drish Chhabria
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Jainam Jagani
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Joe Burn
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Kishan Wali
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Manas Thadhani
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Navrangi Shukla
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Jia Harisinghani
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Priya Golani
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Raj Yadav
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Saachi Kokate
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Sagnik Tarafdar
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Sarvesh Parab
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Sarvesh Shukla
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Utkarsh Mhatre
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Vaidehi Purohit
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