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OTC CatchUp #45

Date: 18-09-2021

Duration: 6 hr

Topics Discussed

  • General introductions.

  • @Rishit Dagli shared his talk in which he explained a research paper (Perceiver General Perception with Iterative Attention by DeepMind). (Talk)

  • To implement research papers, @Rishit Dagli advised checking for papers with some code on https://paperswithcode.com and then build up from there.

  • We talked about about MVC & MVVM architechtures.

  • Deepankar Bhade shared a bash script which Rick Rolls by playing Rick Astley’s 'Never Gonna Give You Up' on the terminal.

  • @Rishit Dagli talked about image classification using Swin Transformers, a general-purpose backbone for computer vision.

  • @sirus & Shrinath Gupta talked about Android.

  • Viranchee and @Harsh Kapadia talked about Cloudflare Workers & Cloudflare Pages.

  • @Pranav Dani talked about VirtualBox vs Docker.

  • @Harsh Kapadia suggested browser extensions for GitHub. (Octotree, Refined GitHub and GitZip for GitHub)

  • Shrinath Gupta talked about ROS (Robot Operating System) and showed a simple GUI he made on his laptop using ROS stuff.

  • @Sreekaran Srinath and Viranchee advised Shrinath Gupta on job salaries.

Projects Showcased

  • Mayur shared a script that he had written in Python that was sending Tweets with random quotes.

  • @Pranav Dani showcased the projects he created as a part of JavaScript30. (Web app)

  • @Rishit Dagli shared his Computer Vision Swin Transformer model that was featured on TensorFlow Hub and on the Keras web site. (TF Hub, keras.io)

  • Deepankar Bhade showcased his project Emoticon, which lets one encrypt and decrypt messages in emojis. (Web App)

  • Shrinath Gupta showcased his Disaster Management Android project.

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