From Computerphile. More about Jane Street internships at: https://jane-st.co/internship-computerphile (episode sponsor) Mike Pound discusses how Retrieval Augmented Generation can improve the performance of Large Language Models. Mike is based at the University of Nottingham’s School of Computer Science. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the…

From Computerphile. Nearly nine million Windows machines were taken out by the Crowdstrike problem in July 2024, but why was the impact so problematic? Dr Steve Bagley and Dr Mike Pound of the University of Nottingham discuss the problem. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile is a…

From Computerphile. How CPUs that are capable can manage to complete tasks simultaneously without the program knowing. Matt Godbolt continues his series on how processors work. Many thanks to Space Potatoes for kind permission to use their music: https://2020rendezvous.com/ https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at…

From Computerphile. Ray tracing is massive and gives realistic graphics in games & movies but how does it work? Lewis Stuart explains. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran’s Numberphile. More at https://www.bradyharanblog.com…

From Computerphile. Bug Byte puzzle here – https://bit.ly/4bnlcb9 – and apply to Jane Street programs here – https://bit.ly/3JdtFBZ (episode sponsor). More info in full description below ↓↓↓ A new paper suggests diminishing returns from larger and larger generative AI models. Dr Mike Pound discusses. The Paper (No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data): https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125 https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by…

From Computerphile. How does branch prediction speed up operations? Matt Godbolt continues the deep dive into the inner workings of the CPU https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran’s Numberphile. More at https://www.bradyharanblog.com…

From Computerphile. With the explosion of AI image generators, AI images are everywhere, but how do they ‘know’ how to turn text strings into plausible images? Dr Mike Pound expands on his explanation of Diffusion models. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of…

From Computerphile. How do CPUs make the most efficient use of their compute time? Matt Godbolt takes us through the pipeline – allowing the CPU to do work as many ticks of the system clock as possible! https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University…

From Computerphile. With Large Language Models becoming used across all areas of computing, security researcher Dr Tim Muller explores how they can be used for all kinds of unintended purposes. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister…

From Computerphile. Your browser is using this system right now! (at time of typing!) – Dr Mike Pound explains this ubiquitous system! EXTRA BITS with some of the mathematics: https://youtu.be/7OZyHzYFSgI https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister…

From Computerphile. The field of Human Computer Interaction has been transformed with wearables that are smaller, more powerful and more plentiful. We talked to HCI expert Max Wilson about the use of his, ahem, one ring. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of…

From Computerphile. Going hand in hand with Oblivious Transfer is ‘Garbled Circuits’ – a way of using logic gates to carefully share information. Dr Tim Muller explains. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady…

From Computerphile. A new technique to turn pictures of a scene into a 3D model is quick, easy and doesn’t require that much compute power! Dr Mike Pound and PhD student Lewis Stuart demo and explain. Lewis used this Particle simulation in Unity: GitHub – keijiro/SplatVFX: https://github.com/keijiro/SplatVFX NeRFStudio is here : https://docs.nerf.studio/index.html Previous (nerf) video:…

From Computerphile. From simple rules, complex ‘organisms’ can emerge. PhD candidate Zachariah Garby has been studying the papers to find out what it’s all about. This was formerly called: Digital Plants (L-Systems) EXTRA BITS: https://youtu.be/oFqbVJm8gw0 Zac’s code: https://bit.ly/C_Zac_L-systems https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the…

From Computerphile. Just how simple can a web server be? Laurence Tratt, Shopify / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Language Engineering at Kings College London builds it up. More about Laurie: https://bit.ly/C_LaurenceTratt https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer…