Pincount Podcast

By Iain Wallace and Douglas Shearer

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 spe... more

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The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.

Pincount Podcast episodes:

April 06, 2019Episode 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
...more
41min
January 22, 2019Episode 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
...more
31min
October 29, 2018Episode 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
...more
35min
August 24, 2018Episode 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?
...more
28min
June 14, 2018Episode 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
...more
40min
April 16, 2018Episode 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
...more
34min
March 14, 2018Episode 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
...more
36min
January 29, 2018Episode 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.
...more
31min
December 21, 2017Episode 25 - Prime Nonsense
FU
Intel Xeon Skylake SP

Tensorflow Light to support Core ML

ONNX Version 1.0

Toshiba sampling UFS 2.1
Universal Flash Storage

Qualcomm Centriq 2400

Nvidia Titan V - Anandtech
NIPS - Neural Information Processing Systems

Titan V Gaming Benchmarks

Nvidia Deep Learning Containers

Topic - Computational Photography
Google Research blog posts
Episode 19 - Google Photoscan and long exposure discussion

Google Pixel 2 portrait mode

Street View panorama processing

Episode 13 - Google Plus image upscaling discussion

Style Transfer for artistic impression

Turning day into night

Interactive editing of a video scene

Occlusion removal

Aftershow
Cats? No, you want cat memes!

Doug watches interactive editing video
...more
34min
December 07, 2017Episode 24 - I'm Not Special Any More
FU

Apple’s OLED display performance

AI
Funding for AI in UK Autumn 2017 Budget

TensorFlow Lite Announcement

Apple paper on LIDAR point cloud detection

Amazon EC2 P3 instances with Nvidia Tesla V100
Amazon EC2 Deep Learning machine image

CPU
Amazon EC2 C5 instances

Intel to use AMD Radeon GPUs in their CPUs

Intel Discreet GPU Development Effort

Storage
Intel Optane 900p review

Intel Optan DC-P4800X review

Topic - Networking
Netflix quest to serve 100Gbps from a single server
Netflix Open Connect

HN Discussion with Author answering questions

Chelsio Crypto-offload NICs

Infiniband

5G

AWS Lambda

AWS Snowball Edge

Aftershow
Pinboard

Maciej Cegłowski

Delicious
Delicious on Wikipedia

Pinboard Acquires Delicious

Tweet - Delicious Architecture

Tweet - The Cloud Bill

Tweet - Reduced costs breaks developer
...more
32min

FAQs about Pincount Podcast:

How many episodes does Pincount Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.