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OTC CatchUp #188

Date: 15-06-2024

Duration: 4 hrs 41 mins

Topics Discussed

  • Harsh Kapadia showcased his banana pie tool that he bought for a project.

  • The following links were shared in the meet:

  • Himanshu Sharma and KrIshan Sharmaa Dave discussed React Native.

    • Himanshu Sharma is working on a project where he is migrating stuff to React Native.

  • Ishan Sharma and Pranav Prasanna Dani pivoted the discussion towards Apple’s big announcements from WWDC, specifically entailing to "Apple Intelligence".

    • Apple heavily integrated AI into their products, potentially killing the business of a few companies like Grammarly.

    • We also talked about the design choices surrounding the Magic Mouse.

  • Harsh Kapadia shared A nice implementation of SIMD.

    • Pranav Prasanna Dani then talked about GPUs, SIMD, CUDA, and Vector and Scalar processing.

    • We also touched upon the topic of F16 and F32, which are 16 and 32-bit floating point numbers respectively.

    • We then talked about AMD’s MI300X and Nvidia’s counterp art.

  • Harsh Kapadia, Aditya Oberai and Jay Kaku talked about Headless CMS and GitHub Copilot being used in companies.

    • We talked about Copilot+ PCs introduced by Microsoft and the recall feature, which was ironically recalled due to some privacy and security concerns.

Show and Tell

  • Bhavesh Kukreja showcased a project where he wrote a C program to perform multiple operations on a BMP image.

    • He used the Sobel operator to detect edges in the image.

    • He also talked about the Canny edge detector.

  • Harsh Kapadia showcased a program to parse elf for a program. The intention was to understand how the parsing works.

Attendees

  1. Aditya Oberai

  2. Bhavesh Kukreja

  3. Dheeraj Lalwani

  4. Harsh Kapadia

  5. Himanshu Sharma

  6. Ishan Sharma

  7. Jay Kaku

  8. Kaustubh Khavnekar

  9. Mohit Gangwani

  10. Pranav Prasanna Dani

  11. Pratik Thakare

  12. Ramyak Mehra

  13. Rishit Dagli

  14. Vedant Panchal

  15. Wilfred Almeida

  16. jaden furtado

  17. Alpesh Bhagwatkar

  18. Chirag Bachani

  19. Krishana Dave

  20. Raghav Rathi

  21. Ram Naik

  22. Sohail Shaikh

Meet Screenshot

Meet #188 screenshot
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