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OTC CatchUp #196

Date: 10-08-2024

Duration: 3 hrs 33 mins

Topics Discussed

  • Anas Khan talked about his project which is like IMDB but for Youtube.

  • Darshan Rander shared that he recently gave a flutter talk in Pune and liked it because people paid attention.

  • We discussed why people choose where to work in Bangalore or Mumbai, and why. The general consensus was money.

  • Google was declared monopolistic and turns out more companies are under supervision for similar reasons.

    • This could have big implications on how Google operates in the future. Each product might have to be spun off into a separate divison.

    • Parth Puranik suggested that Perplexity could be a good alternative to Google Search due to its unique approach to search.

  • We talked about Intel comments on the 13th and 14th generation K-SKU processor instability issue.

    • Gamer’s Nexus video about Intel.

    • We discussed how power consumption might be correlated to different ISAs, and how the micro-architecture of the processor could be optimised to reduce power consumption.

  • Aditya Oberai shared his experience of studying in a boarding school.

    • He suggested that a kid learns to be independent and self-reliant in a boarding school earlier than in the case of a traditional schooling system.

  • Alpesh Bhagwatkar shared his in progress portfolio website and asked for feedback.

    • He was facing issues with custom fonts in his portfolio.

    • Darshan Rander suggested him to make it stable for desktop first and then move to mobile.

  • jaden furtado shared the initial draft of his talk on cyber threats to satellites.

    • He talked about how satellites are vulnerable to cyber attacks and how they can be protected.

Attendees

  1. Aditya Oberai

  2. Anas Khan

  3. Ayush Chauhan

  4. Bhavesh Kukreja

  5. Darshan Rander

  6. Dheeraj Lalwani

  7. Harsh Kapadia

  8. Mohit Gangwani

  9. Pranav Dani

  10. Pratik Thakare

  11. Rishit Dagli

  12. Siddharth Bhatia

  13. Wilfred Almeida

  14. jaden furtado

  15. Alpesh Bhagwatkar

  16. Aniket Kadam

  17. Ayush Singh Chauhan

  18. KsrX Duke

  19. Nishant Goel

  20. Parth Puranik

  21. Raghav Rathi

  22. Sarthak

  23. Tarun 24

  24. Vanshika jain

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