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 https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham:…

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 https://twitter.com/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…

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 https://twitter.com/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…

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 https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer…

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 https://twitter.com/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.…

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 https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This…

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. EXTRA BITS: https://youtu.be/oFqbVJm8gw0 Zac’s code: https://bit.ly/C_Zac_L-systems https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/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…

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 https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is…

From Computerphile. A graphical problem seems intuitive to a human, but how do you explain something formally to a machine? Dr. Mohammad Abdulaziz, Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, King’s College London https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/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…

From Computerphile. Digital Twin – a new buzz word or a useful piece of technology? We asked Dr Steffen Zschaler, Reader in Computer Science at Kings College London. #ComputerScience #DigitalTwin #CS #computing https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/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. Featuring Mike Pound. Jane Street skyscraper puzzle (and info on the AMP program) at https://bit.ly/computerphile-amp — More below ↓↓↓ Hash Sets in Python work a little bit like the index of a book, giving you a shortcut to looking for a value in a list. Dr Mike Pound explains how they work and…

From Computerphile. Matt Godbolt continues the story of the CPU and explains how machines do addition https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/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 Thank you to Jane Street for their support…

From Computerphile. Progress bars, what are they and how do they work? Dr Valerio Giuffrida explains and goes through an implementation of a progress bar. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/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…

From Computerphile. Explaining machine code from the ground up! Famous for ‘Compiler Explorer,’ Matt Godbolt’s code has appeared before on Computerphile but this is his debut. EXTRA BITS: https://youtu.be/9gXeS8BoLmE Find out more about Matt from his blog: https://bit.ly/C_MGodbolt https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of…

From Computerphile. All through 2023 we’ve been asking Computerphile contributors to tell us about their first brush with computer games. This is the 2023 sound-check compilation! Links etc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17VH5BuYun5ApNGmkChMnm4ppkQrw8pLHsu1roODAC24/edit?usp=drivesdk Playable: Horace & the Spiders: Horace & the Spiders (torinak.com) Horace goes Skiing: Horace Goes Skiing (torinak.com) Painter: Complete BBC Micro Games Archive – Play The…

From Computerphile. Neural Radiance Field – NeRF – Dr Mike Pound and PhD Student Lewis Stuart demonstrate how a series of photos or a piece of video can lead to a 3D model in your computer. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer…

From Computerphile. Ahead of an upcoming Python implementation, Professor Thorsten Altenkirch goes through the details and definitions of Regular Expressions. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/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 Thank you to Jane…

From Computerphile. You can optimise for speed, power consumption or memory use & tiny changes can have a negligible or huge impact, but what should you optimise and most importantly, when? Dr Steve Bagley has an example! https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham:…

From Computerphile. Mike talks through a binary search bug that was undiscovered for years! https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/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 Thank you to Jane Street for their support of this…

From Computerphile. Legendary cyber-security expert Professor Gene Spafford joins us to try to define what cyber-security even is! "Spaf" as he’s known, is a faculty member at Purdue University and now Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham. Dr Spafford is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for the…

From Computerphile. Programs aren’t capable of generating true random numbers, so how can we? Are they even useful? Dr Valerio Giuffrida demonstrates how to get a true random number from most computers. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/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. Back to basics as Dr Mike Pound explains a simple but incredibly useful algorithm, binary search. #algorithm #ComputerScience https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/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 Thank you to Jane…

From Computerphile. Share part of a secret without knowing which part? Dr Tim Muller explains how Oblivious Transfer works. https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/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 Thank you to Jane Street…