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OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!. For all summaries, please visit catchup.ourtech.community/summary. |
OTC CatchUp #198
Date: 24-08-2024
Duration: 4 hrs 28 mins
Topics Discussed
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Aniket Kadam told us about his struggles with Autism and how he is trying to develop products for Neurodivergent people.
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Aniket told us about the challenges he faced with microcontrollers while developing products because they have very little RAM. The RAM is so less, that the microcontroller could not even verify the SSL certificate for a HTTP request. Also, if he asks for data exceeding the amount of RAM available on the device, it will crash and reboot.
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Harsh Kapadia shared a few content creators that he watches to learn more about Neurodivergence and some disabilities.
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Tushar Shelke asked us how fast C++ is and which applications use it. C++ is fast and reliable-enough to be used in stock market trading applications and in Operating Systems (like Windows) to name a few places that use it extensively.
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Tushar Shelke also asked what 'native' means in terms of compilation.
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Aniket Kadam and Nida Shaikh talked about using Lua for scripting and Siddharth Bhatia shared LuaRT, a Windows programming framework for Lua.
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Harsh Kapadia shared github.com/jasonmayes/Real-Time-Person-Removal.
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Games
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We praised indie games like Stardew Valley.
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Siddharth Bhatia shared How Earthbound Became The Ultimate Cult Classic.
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We talked about copyright and fair-use when someone talked about companies being able to scrape any content of the web to train LLMs.
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We mentioned that licensed content cannot be used for training unless the license permits it or if the trainer has obtained legal permission to use that licensed content.
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Siddharth Bhatia shared OpenAI says New York Times lawsuit "without merit," claims training AI models with public media is "fair use".
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Harsh Kapadia was of the opinion that YouTube hasn’t solved the copyright problem, but they’ve done a lot of good stuff. A lot of copyright companies abuse YouTube’s copyright system. It’s very difficult for YouTubers to counter copyright claims by companies and claim fair-use.
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Siddharth shared YouTube’s copyright system isn’t broken. The world’s is.
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Viranchee Lotia shared Intro to Large Language Models.
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We talked about Commodore 64, Disk Operating System (DOS), Hercules CRT, Sinclair Computers and more.
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We were surprised to learn that the hardware company ARM is actually an abbreviation for Advanced RISC Machines!
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Siddharth Bhatia told us how XBMC was renamed to Kodi.
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We talked a little about the history of AT&T.
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Siddharth Bhatia took us through the first two editions of The MagPi, the RaspberryPi magazine.
Projects Showcased
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Siddharth Bhatia shared Amber2, a custom theme for Windows Terminal. This is a sequel to his Amber-theme project.
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Rishit Dagli shared his project NeRF-US, which removes Ultrasound Imaging artifacts from Neural Radiance Fields in the wild.
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