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JavaScript is dangerous! Why? How are websites vulnerable to it? Find out about bug-bounties from Tom Scott.
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This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.
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As AI systems become more capable, rule-based safeguards, hard-coded restrictions, and simple alignment strategies start to break down. Buck Shlegeris talks about some tactics we might use as detailed in a recent paper.
The referenced paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10374
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.
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More about Huffman trees and how they can even work for a trinary system.
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This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.
Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer
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Procedural generation is the idea of using simple rules to generate more complicated items - used in games such as Minecraft and Elite, Zac Garby of the University of Nottingham explains with the use of the game Carcassonne.
Zac would like to thank user mlin92 for the graphics used in his generation code.
Zac's GitHub: https://github.com/zac-garby/carcassonne
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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How do we derive the most compact codes for a situation? Huffman Trees can help. Professor Brailsford explains how computer scientists like their trees to be upside down.
"Entropy in Compression - Computerphile" precedes this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5c_RFKVkko
EXTRA BITS: More on Huffman Trees: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV8efuB3h2g
Error Correction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sskbSvha9M
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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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The real-world doesn't graph well. Sydney Von Arx discusses GenAI & RL -- See Jane Street’s training programs in New York, London or Hong Kong at https://jane-st.co/hkginternship26-computerphile (channel sponsor) -- More links in full description below ↓↓↓
Sydney Von Arx of METR talks about an approach to solve Reinforcement Learning & gradient descent with real world problems.
More about Sydney: https://bit.ly/4aqm1mG
Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile
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CERN developed their 'Grid' before the world wide web took off. Maria and Andrzej explain how it does a lot more than just share the reams of data the Large Hadron Collider collects.
Correction: at 1min 16s, Maria meant to say 10 Gigabits Per Second (not gigabytes)
CERN Computing Centre (& Mouse Farm): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0MgJFGL5jg
Maria Alandes Pradillo - Grid Information System expert
Andrzej Nowak - CERN Openlab CTO Office
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Passkey pop up everywhere, Mike Pound explains what they are! Check out Brilliant's courses and start for free at https://brilliant.org/computerphile/ (episode sponsor) -- More links in full description below ↓↓↓
Dr Mike Pound is based at the University of Nottingham.
This video was previously titled "What is a Passkey?"
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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Websites can still be hacked using SQL injection - Tom explains how sites written in PHP (and other languages too) can be vulnerable and have basic security issues.
More from Tom Scott: http://www.youtube.com/user/enyay and https://twitter.com/tomscott
Follow the Cookie Trail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHSSY8QNvew
CERN Computing Centre & Mouse Farm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0MgJFGL5jg
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Steve gets all festive and tries to improve on the festive lights he built a mere 11 years ago...
Dr Steve Bagley is based at the University of Nottingham.
Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile
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