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OTC CatchUp #186

Date: 01-06-2024

Duration: 2 hrs 45 mins

Topics Discussed

  • Jaden Furtado asked for opinions about either he should pursue PhD of continue with his Job.

    • General concenseus was to try to do both, if that’s not possible then choose PhD.

  • Siddharth Bhatia talked about Google’s Search Algorithm Docs Leak.

    • It was a big leak and later Google came forward and confirmed that the leaked documents were correct.

  • Hritik Jaiswal shared Update on Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Pricing; TLDR - Azure will not charge for the data transfer across availability zones regardless of using private or public IPs on your Azure resources

  • Pratik Thakare talked about the project he was working on where he was trying to add features to his biometric attendance systems at his Gym.

    • He had to put it on hold as the data required for him to add features was not available by the service.

  • We talked about AI services provided by Azure, it looked like they are building a collection of models and create an API surface for their customers to use which they can use to different models from different companies just by switching a switch.

  • Siddharth Bhatia shared a video titled Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks where he talks about his opinions on why he felt so.

  • Pratik Thakare talked about TTP - Time To Penis - it’s a metric on how much time gamers will take to make a penis in a game.

Attendees

  1. Bhavesh Kukreja

  2. Darshan Rander

  3. Hritik Jaiswal

  4. Kartik Soneji

  5. Pranav Dani

  6. Pratik Thakare

  7. Siddharth Bhatia

  8. Viranchee L

  9. Jaden Furtado

  10. Ishaan Parsone

  11. Karthik Nair

  12. Numair Sayed

  13. Ritojnan Mukherjee

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