Computerphile

EXTRA BITS on the XP to Ubuntu Story. Having tried Ubuntu first, Joe installs it permanently on the old laptop, formatting the hard drive and erasing XP and the Dell Media Centre OS in the process.

Main XP to Ubuntu Film: http://youtu.be/JAI368bZC1g

EXTRA BITS - Realtime Boot Comparison: http://youtu.be/ondpla1KHAo
EXTRA BITS - Creating a Bootable USB in Linux: http://youtu.be/LonQjMbjZR0

Raspberry Pi Hardware: http://youtu.be/sx2HjuZBuo0

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Discussing how scammers take advantage of the way certain online systems work to leverage the delays. Dr Tim Muller is based at the University of Nottingham.

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EXTRA BITS on the XP to Ubuntu Story, here we see Joe re-build the bootable USB stick on his own machine in Ubuntu.

Main XP to Ubuntu Film: http://youtu.be/JAI368bZC1g

EXTRA BITS - Realtime Boot Comparison: http://youtu.be/ondpla1KHAo
EXTRA BITS - Installing Ubuntu: http://youtu.be/ceYeTXHHSa0

Raspberry Pi Hardware: http://youtu.be/sx2HjuZBuo0

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This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.

Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer

Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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A seemingly simple problem that's "in general" incredibly difficult! CEO of Redwood Research Buck Shlegeris explains his favourite algorithmic fact!

Buck wants to thank his friend Peter Schmidt-Nielsen for telling him this great fact. More on the sums of square roots problem: https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/79/problems-between-p-and-npc#4010

Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile

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EXTRA BITS on the XP to Ubuntu Story.

To give you an idea of the change from before, here are a few minutes showing the relative boot times. This laptop is Sean's own machine which had largely fallen into disuse. Originally bought as a video editing machine in 2006 with successive updates and patches to XP Media Centre Edition, it had become slow enough to make him want to throw it through the nearest window each time he asked it to do a task! - Now, with an inexpensive SSD installed it is his machine of choice....

Main XP to Ubuntu Film: http://youtu.be/JAI368bZC1g

EXTRA BITS - Creating a Bootable USB in Linux: http://youtu.be/LonQjMbjZR0
EXTRA BITS - Installing Ubuntu: http://youtu.be/ceYeTXHHSa0

Raspberry Pi Hardware: http://youtu.be/sx2HjuZBuo0

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This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.

Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer

Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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What is CUDA and why do we need it? An Nvidia invention, its used in many aspects of parallel computing. We spoke to Stephen Jones, one of the architects of CUDA at the recent GTC conference.

Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile

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Rejuvenating an 'ancient' piece of technology for free with a new operating system. As Windows XP nears end-of-life, we look at whether we can re-purpose old bits of kit for free. Joe Nash gets hacking.

EXTRA BITS - Realtime Boot Comparison: http://youtu.be/ondpla1KHAo
EXTRA BITS - Creating a Bootable USB in Linux: http://youtu.be/LonQjMbjZR0
EXTRA BITS - Installing Ubuntu: http://youtu.be/ceYeTXHHSa0

Raspberry Pi Hardware: http://youtu.be/sx2HjuZBuo0

Laptop Specs: 2006 Dell Inspiron 6400 - Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66Ghz 1GB RAM 5400rpm SATA 160GB HDD - Win XP Media Centre Edition with all updates -
(XP had been reinstalled multiple times, all patches and updates installed, the machine often rebuilt from scratch) - after this film a Crucial SSD was installed and Ubuntu reinstalled.

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Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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This video features Sydney Von Arx --- Check out Brilliant's courses and start for free at https://brilliant.org/computerphile/ (episode sponsor) - More links in description below ↓↓↓

Research suggests the rate at which AI is able to stay 'on task' is doubling every seven months. Is this the AI equivalent of Moore's Law? - Sydney Von Arx works on adversarial stress-testing at METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research.)

AI digest explainer:
https://theaidigest.org/time-horizons
The Paper:
https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/

Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile

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EXTRA BITS of Brady's conversation with Professor Tom Rodden about what makes a computer.

Main 'Computing' film (Credit Cards and Computing): http://youtu.be/9pA8xMNVPjE

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Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer

Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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Bashing out low-level code, it can be annoying to re-type the same commands over and over when you need to repeat a routine. Matt Godbolt explains how we can save frequently used code as a subroutine and reuse whenever its needed.

Matt Godbolt is known as the creator of Compiler Explorer, among other things! Find out more about him here: https://xania.org/MattGodbolt

Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile

This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.

Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at https://www.bradyharanblog.com

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