OTC CatchUp #118 Summary

General introductions

Harsh Kapadia talked about BGP and BGP security (RPKI and BGPSec).

Dheeraj Lalwani asked whether he should continue with his internship or not.

Anil Harwani suggested planning our weeks and months.

Anil Harwani asked people to learn about Floating Point Arithmetic in computers to explain Why does 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?

A few simple portfolios that are soothing to look at.

Harsh Kapadia ranted about how complicated and overwhelming the Front End Web Development space has become, where most of the things are not needed by a majority of projects, yet Twitter and other places only talk about those things and create a hype around them, with opinionated fights blooming out of nowhere. Obviously innovation is good and necessary, but still things just seem too overwhelming and everything seems to circle back to the same standard and basic concepts with time.

Jay Kaku talked about how learning about the architecture of something is like learning from a story of learnings and decisions.

Harsh Kapadia responded to Siddharth Bhatia on how not everyone has a natural talent or knack of doing or understanding certain things and that that could be dealt with by learning through a lot of varied experiences.

Annsh Agrawaal, Vatsal Patel and Anil Harwani talked about the Leetcode grind.

Jay Kaku recommended reading Mindset.

Anil Harwani told us to strongly question our biases, be aware of them (especially while taking decisions) and understand where they came from, otherwise it might lead to unforeseen outcomes.

With time, Anil Harwani has discovered that thinking is expensive and doing is cheap. He strongly recommends that we spend more time thinking, taking a step back and looking at the problem, and asking the correct questions rather than immediately starting to solve a problem.

Rishit Dagli talked about how he doesn’t think that ChatGPT isn’t very revolutionary and is more of a well-executed Engineering feat than a research feat.

Vatsal Patel talked about how reaching out to people in his company to learn more and talk about various things that were at times not that related to his job role has helped him grow, learn more and network.

Vatsal Patel shared his job responsibilities working on the automation side of things in Game Development, where he has been unifying Continuous Integration workflows and has been getting used to a Version Control System called Perforce Helix Core.

Anil Harwani shared Children of the Magenta Line and told us that a lot of the principles in the video apply to life in general.