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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 #87
Date: 09-07-2022
Duration: 5 hrs 38 mins
Topics Discussed
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General introductions
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Rishit Dagli told everyone that he was contributing to etcd which is a key-value store used by distributed systems.
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We discussed the differences between Computer Engineering and Computer Science.
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Rishit Dagli's perspective is that Computer Science is more about research and making stuff whereas Computer Engineering is more about implementation.
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Harsh Kapadia's perspective is that Computer Engineering is more about hardware.
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Dhiraj Chauhan suggests that Computer Science involves a lot of theory.
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Ishan Sharma discussed the difference between Client Side Rendering (CSR) and Server Side Rendering (SSR).
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He shared an article about rendering.
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Ishan Sharma showcased an old project to explain that CSR needs JavaScript to run on the main thread and it takes a lot of time.
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To overcome this issue, we use SSR which will atleast render things without JS.
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CSR + SSR is known as Isomorphic Rendering.
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Preet Parekh brought to everyone’s attention that Next.js is introducing a lot of breaking changes in their upcoming update.
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He also talked about a new feature introduced by Next.js which will eliminate the need of client side JavaScript while streaming.
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Streaming allows to constantly modify the DOM.
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Layout discussion in Next.js
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Darshan Rander discussed an issue in JavaScript where he was unable to delete the childNodes in an array and Harsh Kapadia shared a video on difference between children and childNodes by Web Dev Simplified.
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We talked about Jetpack Compose, how Flutter uses the Skia engine to render and native components.
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We discussed the pros and cons of Java and Kotlin.
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Kotlin has a lot of abstractions and a loads of syntatic sugar.
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Harsh Kapadia asked Rishit Dagli about transformers and he shared a link to a paper: Attention is all you need.
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Darshan Rander asked Rishit Dagli about Modality and Rishit shared a video.
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We talked about AOT (Ahead Of Time), JIT (Just In Time) compilation.
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Preet Parekh shared that: The goal of https://wasi.dev is to create a very modular set of system interfaces.
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Siddharth Bhatia shared a project: Linux from scratch which claims: "We installed a system that was just enough to run the Apache web server; total disk space usage was approximately 8 MB. With further stripping, that can be brought down to 5 MB or less. Try that with a regular distribution."
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We then talked about Learning something in depth vs learning things just on the surface level and concluded that following a T-shaped for learning is better, where you find 1 or 2 domains in which you specialize and have surface-level knowledge of the rest of them.
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Poonam Jha shared a new initiative in which, she want’s to help people find their interest in IT.
Projects Showcased
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Darshan Rander shared a Jetpack Compose project idea: Opening music links of one app in another.
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Rishit Dagli showcased his project: Image classification with Swin Transformers.
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