OTC CatchUp #137 Summary

General introductions.

Sampras D’Souza told us that he is working on Engineering Experience and Productivity, to make it easier for Developers at his company to build products.

Darshit Suratwala showed us a Grafana dashboard that his company uses in its product, to produce graphs and other visuals for telemetry data collected from Prometheus, which periodically collects data from various data sources.

Harsh Kapadia shared Seeing the World through Your Eyes, an AI project that constructs a 3D image of the scene in front of a person through reflections seen in their eyes in a portrait image.

Shiva Charan shared Vision and Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE), an instruction-guided task that navigates the environment based on commands given by a user.

Darshan Rander talked about his Flutter Pull Request fix: wrong expansion tile shape assignment.

Kartik Soneji showed us various ways in which GitHub enables comparisons between new and old images in a Pull Request.

Harsh Kapadia asked Kartik Soneji to review his setup Bash script for his dotfiles repository.

Anush Veeranala showed us how customizable and powerful GNU Emacs is, with calendars and planners built into it. It is considered to be an Operating System in itself!

Anush Veeranala also showed us his Operating System GNU Guix, which is highly customizable.

We talked about What is the difference between clang (and LLVM) and gcc / g++?

Kartik Soneji told us about the difference between Curl and Wget and also showcased how the --libcurl flag in Curl outputs pure C code that can be used to do the action the user requested through the command.

Kartik Soneji showed us how GCC and Clang compile and optimize their code, by showing us Assembly output in godbolt.org. He also showed us why Python is inefficient, due to repeated unoptimized function calls and other design-related tradeoffs.