OTC CatchUp #177 Summary

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OTC CatchUp #177

Date: 30-03-2024

Duration: 3 hrs 41 mins

Topics Discussed

Harsh Kapadia and Ramyak Mehra discussed DMARC and SPF.
Harsh Kapadia shared the following links:
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
- Putting the “You” in CPU
Mohit Gangwani shared a link to a project in Raylib.
- Musializer
- Music Visualizer (Fast Fourier Transform)
Rishit Dagli and Siddharth Bhatia talked about different rendering techniques.
- Rishit Dagli discussed 3DGS, implicit representation for 3D and differentiable rendering.
  - On a GPU you can speed things up by rasterizing the image.
- Ramyak Mehra and Rishit Dagli talked about Voxels. Minecraft uses voxels.
  - Voxels are a 3D representation of a pixel.
  - Video: NVIDIA’s New AI: Video Game Graphics, Now 60x Smaller!
  - NVIDIA Is On a Different Planet
Harsh Kapadia talked about the malloc() and free() functions in C.
- Hussain Nasser’s tweet: malloc() in C.
Ramyak Mehra and Siddharth Bhatia talked about the Win32 API.
- This API is used for talking to the Windows operating system.
We had a discussion about Backdoor found in xz liblzma.
Harsh Kapadia talked about the Linux exploit.
- Rishit Dagli shared this image about LLM OS which has potential to hallucinate information.
Researchers found an unfixable bug in Apple computers.
- This is an issue with the M1, M2 and M3 chips.
Aditya Oberai and Siddharth Bhatia discussed Hackathons and communities and why Delhi seems to have more hackathons in general.
- He also talked about what’s wrong with the current hackathon culture. People are conducting hackathons for the sake of conducting hackathons.
The following links were shared in the meet:

Attendees

Aditya Oberai
Aryan Nayak
Bhavesh Kukreja
Chirag Nayyar
Hardik Raheja
Harsh Kapadia
Mohit Gangwani
Pranav Dani
Pratik Thakare
Ramyak Mehra
Rishit Dagli
Siddharth Bhatia
Swapnil Borkar
jaden furtado
Anil Harwani
Atharva Jadhav
Bhagyashree Bhagyalaxmi
Bishal Pal
Jash Malhotra
Rahul Gandla
Ram Naik
Rishi Setpal
Rithvik r
Sahil Bansal
Yuxuan Huang (Sean)

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