Guy Kawasaki says, "the hardest part about getting started is getting started", and it's especially true for procrastinators like us. We all want to read articles, posts, and books about the things we're interested in; but something or the other gets in the way, and sometimes, we are just too lazy. Here, we say goodbye to all that!
The main motivation behind creating this group is to drive our lazy asses to do something productive in our spare time. We believe that a schedule and deadline will force us to participate more actively in reading and discussion. Each person in the group will give a talk in a round-robin fashion on a topic of their interest. We plan to have a session every Monday.
Abhinav, Chetan, Divya, Kashyap, Keshav, Mayank, Pavan, Pooja S, Pooja V, Prabhav, Radheshyam, Shashank, Skanda, Srividhya, Udbhav
- You talk about r3.
- If this is your first time at r3, you have to present.
- Please add the slides in this Google drive folder and add link on the website.
- If you cannot present, provide at least 1 week's notice. The next speaker in the order will be speaking instead.
- Penalty for not intimating at least a week in advance is $20 in the tip jar. (only acceptable excuses are acts of god and fatal injuries)
| Reference(s) | Apartheid and Trevor Noah's "Born a Crime" |
| Reference(s) | Deep Work by Cal Newport |
| Reference(s) | Slides by Pavan (PDF) |
| Reference(s) | Generative Adversarial Nets | Slides (Keynote) |
| Reference(s) | Venture Deals by Brad Feld |
| Reference(s) | Slides (Keynote) |
| Summary | A brief introduction to CPU architecture followed by a discussion of the recently disclosed Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities on modern processors, what made them possible, how they were discovered, and what mitigations are being pursued by the computing industry. |
| Reference(s) | An Introduction to the Science and Art of Photography | Slides (PDF) |
| Topics Discussed: Bitcoin, A History of Bitcoin, B-Money, BitGold, Cypherpunk movement, Blockchain, Merkle Trees, ICOs, Is Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme? |
| Reference(s) | Principles of Economics by Mankiw |
| Reference(s) | Notes by Pooja |
Oct 30, 2017: Information Delivery under Endogenous Communication: Experimental Evidence from the Indian Demonetization (by Pooja)
| Reference(s) | Confidential |
| Reference(s) | Martin Zinkevich's Rules of ML |
Jun 19, 2017: Containers 101. Short 10-15 min demo of development and deployment with containers (by Pavan)
| Reference(s) | Slides by Pavan |
| Reference(s) | Paper on MSDN |
| Reference(s) | Paper on Github |
| Reference(s) | Same as Part I below. |
| Summary | This session was the continuation of the previous session and covered the remaining topics i.e. Seasons, Year, Precession - of the earth and the Moon, and Epochs. |
| Reference(s) | Most of the talk was based on an old Marathi book, Aakashashi Jadavu Naate by S. S. Gokhale. Other sources: wikipedia and internet. Original sources: Siddhant Shiromani by Bhaskara II and Suryasiddhanta. English translations of both are available freely on google books. |
| Summary | This session introduced us with the basics of calendar systems with the focus on traditional hindu calendar system. The talk was broken down into following major parts - Geocentric system, Rasis, Nakshatras and Charans (building blocks and vocabulary), Day, Days of a Week, Month (Maas), Seasons, Year and Precession. This session covered topics until the concept of Month. |
| Reference(s) | Principles of Economics by Mankiw, Notes by Udbhav |
| Summary | Udbhav talked about elasticity of the demand and supply curves and how they can be used to get quantitative metrics about the market. We also see how elasticity can explain a lot of market trends and forces. Finally we do a review of how taxes affect the total output from a market and analyse how suppliers and consumers bear their burden. |
| Reference(s) | Principles of Economics by Mankiw, Notes by Udbhav |
| Summary | Udbhav talked about the demand and supply curves and how they develop from the individual supply and demands of millions of actors interacting in the market. We also see what factors affect these curves. |
| Reference(s) | Dank PPT by Skanda |
| Summary | Hiking the Grand Canyon, and rim to rim at that, is a feather that most avid hikers seek to add to their cap. This presentation takes you through everything you need to know to successfully hike the Grand Canyon, from terrain to gear to training, with the added bonus of an awe-inspiring motivational message by one of the greatest thought leaders alive. |
| Reference(s) | So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport, Notes by Prabhav |
| Summary | This book debunks the popular belief that "follow your passion" is good career advice. Cal then lists a set of rules/templates which people should follow for having a happy and successful career. He also provides examples how people's career fit into the templates given by him. |
| Reference(s) | The Design of Everyday Things by Dan Norman, Intro to Design of Everyday Things on Udacity, Notes by Pavan |
| Summary | "Why are some everyday things so hard to use?". To help answer this question, Don Norman describes a set of principles and terms that define good or bad designs. This includes Affordances, Signifiers, Conceptual Model, System Image, Discoverability, Feedback, Mapping and "7 stages of action" or steps on how people do things. We conclude with a discusson on how to put this into real world with an exercise. |
| Reference(s) | How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF's Housing Crisis Explained) |
| Summary | I'll review what the crisis looks like in numbers, some of the global housing trends such as "The Great Inversion", and the development of the "Slow Growth" movement in SF and California, beginning with the 1950s. We'll look at how rent control came to be, how neighborhood groups and developers have worked with policies and regulations, and where tech fits into all of this. |
| Reference(s) | Principles of Economics by Mankiw, Notes by Udbhav |
| Summary | Udbhav reviewed production posssibilites again and the concave shape of the curve. He also talked about how trade can provide benefit to both the parties involved in trade and gave examples of it. |
| Reference(s) | Principles of Economics by Mankiw, Notes by Udbhav |
| Summary | The talk is primarily structured around first two chapters of the book. Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to economics and then talks about the principles of economics: principles for individuals, principles for interactions, and principles for the whole economy. Chapter 2 provides some of the economic models such as the circular flow diagram and the production possibilities frontier. |
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