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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 speculate about what might be next.

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Episodes

  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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 -...

  6. 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…

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  7. 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…

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  8. 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...

  9. Episode 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 -...

  10. Episode 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...

  11. Episode 23 - I Ate a Lot of Pretzels

    Followup Correction on Coffee Lake Camera calibration for AR in Android Apple’s open source Core ML tools Iain’s tweet Intel shipping Nevana Neural Network processors AVX-512 in Cannon Lake consumer CPUs Intel delivers 17 qubit quantum processor GTC EU Off the shelf autonomous cars e.g. from...

  12. Episode 22 - 1.2 Million Dollars of Hardware

    Followup Qualcomm Centriq Anandtech deep dive Serve the Home deep dive Apple switches Siri web search from Bing to Siri Intel Announces 8th Generation Coffee Lake hex core desktop processors - Anandtech Intel Core i9-7980xe Review - Anandtech Higher accuracy GPS chips for smartphones iPhone 8 and...

  13. Episode 21 - ARM Macs?

    eGPU support for Nvidia Quadro cards Video encoding on Amazon EC2 F1 instances More from Dan Rayburn More fooling deep learning algorithms AMD Threadripper review from Anandtech - CPU Modes UMA NUMA Intel Cannonlake details Intel Coffee Lake leaks ARM Macs James’ Tweet Macbook Pro vs iPad Intel...

  14. Episode 20 - How does the Internet Work?

    Followup AR Kit in Apple Maps Apple’s Machine Learning “Journal” Intel Skylake, Kaby Lake Hyperthreading errata Debian Announcement Detection story Amazon EC2 G3 Instances IBM Z14 - Buzzword driven computing Nvidia V100 in the wild Nvidia DGX-1 V100 pricing Neural Network hardware for Microsoft...

  15. Episode 19 - It's More of a Tea Tray

    Intel Aye Nine LTT on the complexity of the Intel X299 platform Clear Linux Computex Taipei Intel Coffee Lake Sneak Peak Coffee Lake delayed to 2018 Nvidia Geforce GTX MaxQ ASUS Zephyrus WWDC 2017 CoreML (Not MLKit) Video - Introducing Core ML Paul Haddad tweet on including models in apps ARKit...

  16. Episode 18 - Depressed Grad Student Slash Intern

    Followup Amir Khosrowshahi quoted on what AI is Sorting two tonnes of Lego part I Sorting two tonnes of Lego part II Nvidia Volta - Anandtech Vega reveals itself Open source MapD GPU Dataframes Pandas New Cray supercomputers AI on ARM Google Fuscia Computer Vision and Graphics Recreating renders…

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  17. Episode 17 - Procount

    Mac Pro Lives - Daring Fireball ECC RAM Dan Luu Tweet Why ECC? - Dan Luu iMac Pro JayzTwoCents on why small time differences in long running tasks don’t matter Razer Blade HP Z620/640 workstation

  18. Episode 16 - A Flexible Omnishambles

    Lyrebird Tweet by Andy Baio Official page AI literacy - Lisa Daly Chainer AI framework AMD Naples CPU AMD Ryzen 5 CPU Anandtech review Sony’s super fast image sensor is now available in a phone Facebook’s new Open Compute Project servers NVMe JBOF Microsoft’s “Project Olympus” Open Computer…

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  19. Episode 15 - What is AI?

    Modal Logic Epistemic Modal Logic Doxastic Logic Backus–Naur form Journal paper based on Iain’s PhD thesis Robot or Not? Netflix Prize The entity benefiting most from AI hype is… The government of Anguilla Iain’s computer vision tracking paper SLAM LSD-SLAM There are four giraffee species Deep...

  20. Episode 14 - You've Munged This Whole Thing

    Followup Jeff Atwood on why Intel’s range-wide TDP numbers are useless 63W for the new Kaby Lake 90w i5 - The AnandTech Podcast Short Topics Intel 10nm plans Coffee Lake Cannonlake Nintendo Switch development platforms Modifying some simple code to use SIMD Taxi analysis - This time on 4x Phi!…

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  21. Episode 13 - Random Tech News Podcast

    Doug recorded using the wrong microphone, that’s why he sounds like he’s in another room this week. Sorry about that. Followup! Rick Branson’s tweet about Amazon EC2 R4 instance network performance ENA - Ethernet Network Adaptor PPS - Packets Per Second “R4 instances are optimized for...

  22. Episode 12 - That'd Be a Pretty Small Truck

    AMD Deep Learning Announcements Instinct announcement Anandtech coverage Hacker News Discussion Linux kernel refusing AMD patches Intel GPU Internals Intel gpu design Expiring Intel-Nvidia patent cross-licensing to expire in 2017 - Ryan Smith Agner’s CPU Blog - Knights Landing Kola Superdeep...

  23. Episode 11 - 13,700 Files

    SuperComputing ‘16 Nvidia DGX -1 Cluster Stacks Intel Xeon E5-2600v4 Deep Dive Deeper on Apple MacBook Pro 16GB RAM limit X86 gaming onsoles vs gaming PCs PS4 specs Nice comparison of all consoles Linus Tech Tips Holiday Buyer’s Guide The Steambone On-air PC Parts list Steam Sale Hard Truths...

  24. Episode 10 - Long on the Internet

    Followup iPhone 7 Plus sensor sizes round 3. The two sensors are different sizes. This time. Really. Intel Announcements and Rumours Intel E3900 Atom Industrial IOT CPUs Intel Braswell Intel Enterprise M.2 SSDs Microsoft’s future Open-compute servers Kaby Lake leaks I3-6300 New Macbook Pros USB-C...

  25. Episode 9 - Serious Beards and Facial Hair

    AMD AM4 Socket John Gruber on big.LITTLE 2Tb NVMe SSDs from Samsung FPGA in Microsoft servers Image compression with Neural Networks High Definition displays Sharp 8k 120hz Monitor IBM medical imaging displays (22” 4k, not 17” 2k as Doug guessed) Intel i7-7700k “Kaby Lake” Desktop benchmark...

  26. Episode 8 - Only 50 Euros Shipping

    Followup Why DIDN’t Larrabee fail? AVX-512 support in Xeon Phi, Knights Landing CPUs supporting AVX-512 New Nvidia GPUS Laptop GTX 1060, 1070, 1080 Deep Learning aimed P4 and P40 iPhone 7 Plus John Gruber’s iPhones 7 review LITTLE cores not used in Geekbench Benchmarks big.LITTLE bug in Mono...

  27. Episode 7 - Special Apple September Keynote Flash Express Edition™

    Apple Watch Updates Series 2 iPhone Water Resistance The Full Specs IP46 Waterproof API in iOS 10 iPhone Camera Disparity Maps iPhone CPU Wiki on Big.LITTLE Hexus on big.LITTLE Transistor Counts

  28. Episode 6 - Waving Their Latest and Greatest Around

    Beeeeeeeeer Flash Week Flash Memory Summit Samsung and Netlist HypriDIMM Seagate 10Gbps PCIe SSD and 60TB SAS SSD Toshiba 1-up with 100TB SSD Micron Announces Quantx Branding for 3D XPoint Memory Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (Version with XKCD-style visualisation) Humanized…

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  29. Episode 5 - Glass and Gold Velcro

    Displays Sony 4K OLED display Under a Microscope Galaxy S7 Shootout OLED TV Shootout Qualcomm Mirasol E-Ink Report on Apple Recruiting Mirasol Team Bloomberg Article on Same 1440p max Mirasol Size The Machine Linux Weekly News article Memristor HP Removes Memristor’s from machine Jim Austin’s...

  30. Episode 4 - How the Sausage is Made

    Followup Question from James Burland. Presence Field of View Temporal Resolution Spatial Resolution Firma Facebook Surround 360 Announcement post Project Homepage Assembly and Hardware Guide Source code Hardware: External SAS JBOD array External PCIe exclosure PCIe expansion backplane PCIe…

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  31. Episode 3 - Silly Names

    Followup Episode 1 audio Doug mis-spoke VP9 quality and bitrates iPhone 6S H265 Mediatek 10 Core SoC x20 Dev Board More info Titan X, Again! New Intel Chips - Coffee Lake Are software encoders relevant? Xeons specifically for video Intel VCA board (Xeon PCIE boards) FPGA vs ASICS ASICS for...

  32. Episode 2 - HR in VR

    Followup Qualcomm Project Tango - Lightweight 3D tracking in silicon for mobile. Lenovo Phab 2 Pro Apple WWDC Metal Part 2 Replay Inside-Out Tracking How the Vive Lighthouse Works VR Cortex Episode 32 - Dropping Acid - Grey and Myke experience VR for the first time. CHOO CHOO AMD Sulon Scale in…

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  33. Episode 1 - Being Cheeky

    Metal and deep learning Metal Performance Shaders Tensorflow on iOS OSX getting Cuda Tensorflow support Nvidia mac speculation Intel Ark Wikipedia list of Nvidia GPUs Titan P in August RX-480 Release Anandtech Preview Naughty AMD

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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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Iain Wallace and Douglas Shearer

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