Pincount Podcast Iain Wallace and Douglas Shearer

Followup

Benchmarks of Memcached on multiple SSDs
EC2 Graviton benchmarks - Phoronix


Some DL problems are intractable
7nm
Complete Coffee Lake CPU list - Anandtech

Available in 2019 iMacs


Jetson Nano
Google Stadia - The Verge

Netflix Open Connect


ESRGAN texture packs
Playable raytraced Quake 2

Article
HN Discussion
Battlefield V RTX Demo
RTX On/Off Meme, fellow kids


ARM Helium vector extensions

Article


GradientFlow - Training ImageNet in 1.5 Minutes on 512 GPUs
Thinkpad X210
Aftershow

Microsft Wall of GPU History
Farming Simulator peripherals
Cup throwing robots

Followup

Linus Tech Tips - Linus Swaps Hard Drive Actuator
LLVM in Webkit update

Webkit B3 JIT Compiler
LLVM Wikipedia - History
Initialism




CES

Alienware Area 51 M

The Verge - Report
The Verge - Video interview with Alienware Product Lead
Intel Ark - Core i9-9900K
LGA 1151


LG Rollable TV - The Verge video
Intel Keynote

Anandtech coverage


Ian Cutress tweet about 28 core high-clock Xeon pricing
Gsync on freesync

The Verge coverage
Linus Tech Tips video




Microsoft 896 core servers
Global Kernel locks in APFS
Iain’s tweet about Google Bart

MN-Core
Pentagram designs for Graphcore
Intel Nervana


AWS re:Invent

AWS Ground Station
ARM on EC2

AWS Announcement
The Register coverage


AMD EPYC on EC2


Intel Cascade Lake Xeon - Pincount news!
Sub $1000 IBM Power9 motherboard
Adversarial Examples that Fool both Human and Computer Vision
Fast and accurate object detection in high resolution 4K and 8K video using GPUs

Followup

Episode 5
Anandtech - iPhone Xs displays
Amazon S3 Versioning
Amazon S3 Object Lifecycle Rules
Backblaze - Going Deep On Durability


Skype white noise

Tweet by Nicbravo
Wikipedia - Comfort Noise


Threadripper 2 Performance on Linux vs Windows
Nvidia RTX

Tim Dettmer’s updated DL GPU recommendations


Nvidia Video to Video Synthesis

Demo
Source code


Deep Angel
iOS 12 Core ML benchmarks
iPhone Xs Javascript benchmarks

DHH Tweet
Webkit LLVM


Intel CPUs

Intel Whiskey Lake, Amber Lake
Intel Xeon Roadmap new DL instructions
10nm in NUC
Intel Xeon W-3175X - Anandtech


Reminiscing about old PCs

Commodore 64
ZX Spectrum
Amstrad PC1512
Amstrad PPC 640
BT Gold
School computers

Dan’s Tweet
BBC Micro
Acorn Archimedes
Tesco Computers for Schools Vouchers


Apple iBook
Iain’s cooling “solution”
HP Jornada

Windows Mobile


Dell Streak
How the computing world was represented in high-school computing.

Mainframe
Batch Processing
Token Ring Bus

FU

More on local Python web servers.

Pincount development server
RangeHTTPServer
virtualenv
Conda


Intel 10nm

Holiday 2019 - Anandtech
Episode 29
2018 Macbook Pro - Macrumors




Backups

Apple Time Machine
SuperDuper!
RAID is not a backup
ZFS
Backblaze
Tarsnap
Parchive
Gary Bernhardt’s corrupted par2 restore script
Windows 10 File History


Aftershow

Pokemon or Big Data?

More ARM on servers

Cloudfront rewrite image processing using NEON to beat out Intel equivalent

HN discussion


Anandtech Thunder X2 review
Homebrew supports ARM CPUs, maybe only on Linux?
Qualcomm to exit ARM Server chips?


10nm Intel CPUs in the wild

Intel Core i3-8121U
Lenovo Ideapad 330 - Anandtech


Facebook job ad for a chip designer
Xeon with integrated FPGA - Anandtech

Pincount Episode 18


Command line utilities

htop

htop in more detail than you ever cared about


GNU parallel

GNU parallel tutorial
GNU parallel book


SimpleHTTPServer - For Python 2

http.server - For Python 3


tmux

GNU screen
Byobu
inotifywait


gnuplot

feedgnuplot


strace - Linux

dtrace - Linux, Mac OS, Solaris
How to Debug Anything by James Golick
Legally mandated Brendan Gregg Dtrace info


Bash tips:

ctrl-r for reverse history search.
ctrl-a to go to the start of a line.
ctrl-e to go to the end of a line.
rm -rf / to test your backups.


Fish Shell


Aftershow

IBM 5 in 5
Crab simulator
Goat simulator

Nvidia GTC 2018

Quadro GV100 - Anandtech
V100 32GB - Anandtech
NVSwitch and DGX-2 - Anandtech


More Intel 8th Gen Core CPUs

Anandtech overview
Mobile Core i9-8950HK
Mobile Core i7-8559U
Dell with 8th Gen Core CPUs - Anandtech


ARM PC followup

Gigabit ARM Workstation - Bit Tech
Cloudflare testing ARM in Servers - Matthew Prince on Twitter


PCIe SD cards

RED proprietary SSDs for cinema cameras


Google Knusperli
Generating images from human brain activity

Guilluame Dumas Tweet
Paper


Newsletters we recommend

Wild Week in AI

Jupyter


Last Week in AWS

Issue 52


Import AI

Detecting jaywalking with facial recognition


Stratechery

Stratechery 4.0


Benedict Evans

Microsoft re-org


Stackshare

Instacart Article




Aftershow

VR game reviews

Elite Dangerous - UpIsNotJump
Fallout 4 Negatives - UpIsNotJump
Fallout 4 Positives - UpIsNotJump




More Computer Vision Trolling:

Request for sheep - Janelle Shane on Twitter
Do Neural Nets Dream of Electric Sheep
Diagnosis Pain Levels in Sheep


Amazon Transcribe

Episode 27 transcript sample