Pincount Podcast

Iain Wallace and Douglas Shearer
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Pincount Podcast

Pincount is a tech podcast not afraid of the details. We're not just users, we're computer scientists and developers. Join us for half an hour each fortnight to get into the detail on new tech and speculate about what might be next.

  1. 06/04/2019

    Episode 33 - A Pink Velvet Shark

    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

    40 min

  2. 22/01/2019

    Episode 32 - It's a Proper Chunky Boy

    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

    31 min

  3. 29/10/2018

    Episode 31 - A Series of Small Fires

    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

    35 min

  4. 24/08/2018

    Episode 30 - Throw It All In The Sea

    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?

    28 min

  5. 14/06/2018

    Episode 29 - Total Donkey

    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

    40 min

  6. 16/04/2018

    Episode 28 - Taking a Baby

    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

    33 min

  7. 14/03/2018

    Episode 27 - Either Which Way Round

    Followup Running Hashcat on Amazon AWS P3.16xLarge Linus Tech Tips Titan V benchmarks Bitmain buying 20k 16nm wafers a month from TSMC Bitmain revenue Nvidia Turing Nvidia Ampere Facebook Detectron Fast Photo Style from Nvidia Deep Learning Classification Explain Tool Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O’Neil The Age of the Algorithm - 99% Invisible Human ImageNet classification performance - Section 6.4 Google TPU Public Beta RiseML TPU Benchmarks Chip reliability Nvidia Xavier Fail-slow at scale: evidence of hardware performance faults in large production systems Branchless Doom Hacker News Discussion Ports Serial port Parallel port PS/2 port USB 3.1 USB 3.2 Qi wireless charging Wireless USB

    36 min

  8. 29/01/2018

    Episode 26 - The Three is Silent

    CGP Grey How Machines Learn How Machines Really Learn Titan V Deep Learning Benchmarks EC2 P3 Instances Turning Design Mockups into Code with Deep Learning Adobe Dreamweaver S80186: 16-bit 80186 compatible IP core Fabien Sanglard’s game code reviews Google’s Learned Image Compression Challenger Google Guetzli CES Intel Anandtech’s Keynote Live Blog Tangle Lake - Linus Tech Tips Video Loihi Neuromorphic chip Asus Mobile displays - Linus Tech Tips Video Meltdown and Spectre Why Raspberry Pi Isn’t Vulnerable What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for Webkit Meltdown Paper Summary Why performance will be hit by fixes - Ars Technica Performance impact on Windows systems Performance impact on Mac OS PCID Meltdown Proof of Concepts Other CPU bugs Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 Pentium FDIV bug List of CPU bugs Dan Luu on Intel’s 2015 CPU bugs Aftershow “The new webscale stack. MongoDB + nodejs + crypto” zenbot on Github Pan stink and grinder.

    31 min
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Pincount is a tech podcast not afraid of the details. We're not just users, we're computer scientists and developers. Join us for half an hour each fortnight to get into the detail on new tech and speculate about what might be next.

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  • Creator
    Iain Wallace and Douglas Shearer
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2019
  • Episodes
    33
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Iain Wallace and Douglas Shearer
  • Show Website
    Pincount Podcast

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