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OTC CatchUp #221

Date: 01-02-2025

Duration: 2 hrs 46 mins

Topics Discussed

  • Darshan Rander started brain storming for AntiLang, where he just wanted to mess with the language structure and make it difficult to understand.

  • Dheeraj Lalwani showcased the Dekho project updates and asked everyone to try out the project and upvote it on Peerlist.

  • We discussed DeepSeek R1 and talked about model distillation, highlighting recent claims by OpenAI against China.

    • Distillation is a process where a large model is trained on a large dataset and then a smaller model is trained on the same dataset to mimic the larger model.

  • Rishit Dagli and Pranav Dani discussed Nvidia’s latest GPUs and the controversy surrounding fake frames in DLSS4.

    • They compared the power consumption between the 4090 and 5090 models.

  • Pranav Dani shared his updates on the CPU and GPU profiling project.

Attendees

  1. Alpesh Bhagwatkar

  2. Bhavesh Kukreja

  3. Darshan Rander

  4. Dheeraj Lalwani (Dhiru)

  5. Kartik Soneji

  6. Mohit Gangwani

  7. Prajwal Dhule

  8. Pranav Dani

  9. Sahil Prasad

  10. Siddharth Kaduskar

  11. jaden furtado

  12. DEV MALANG

  13. Gautam

  14. Krishana Dave

  15. Mohammad Sohail Shaikh

  16. Raghav Rathi

  17. Ram Naik

  18. Rishit Dagli

  19. Tushar Shelke

  20. vintus vinifera

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