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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 #222
Date: 08-02-2025
Duration: 3 hrs 52 mins
Topics Discussed
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Ritojnan Mukherjee discussed embeddings and the Indic-BERT model:
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We then talked about sentence-to-word embeddings and their applications (e.g., image search).
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Discussed the difference between Translation vs Transliteration.
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Shared links:
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Jia Harisinghani shared her project Algorific, and Harsh Kapadia suggested her to host it on GitHub Pages instead of Vercel, since it takes more efforts initially, but you get to learn more.
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We talked about the difference beteween containerization and virtualization, and use of Docker.
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Docker cointainer uses linux features like namespaces and cgroups, while virtualization relies on hypervisors.
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Pranav Dani and Harsh Kapadia discussed operating systems and process execution, covering asynchronous vs synchronous operations, blocking vs non-blocking processes, parallel vs concurrent execution, and the nuances of multitasking, multithreading, hyperthreading, and multiprocessing.
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Process requiring slow I/O operations or network requests can be made asynchronous to prevent blocking the CPU.
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Parallel execution involves multiple tasks running simultaneously, while concurrent execution involves multiple tasks being interleaved.
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Multitasking involves running multiple tasks on a single CPU, while multithreading involves running multiple threads on a single process.
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Darshan Rander showcased his updates to AntiLang, a language that he was working on while reading the Interpreter book.
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Harsh Kapadia shared a blog called Confessions of a Code Addict by Abhinav Upadhyay.
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Wilfred Almeida shared his work on blockchain, focusing on implementing eventual consistency.
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Rishit shared a link to the research paper "Gradual Disempowerment" (Gradual Disempowerment), which examines the impact of AI on society.
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Viranchee demonstrated the execution of SIMD vector instructions on ARM using a simple C++ example for vector addition.
Attendees
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Aryakumar Jaiswal
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Abhinav Singh
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Akhil Sahu
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Antariksh Pratham
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Gautam
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Mohammad Sohail Shaikh
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Ram Naik
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Ritojnan Mukherjee
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Sahil Bansal
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Soham Shirke
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Sreekesh Iyer
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Uma Iyer
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