Pincount Podcast
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPincount 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
Episode 33 - A Pink Velvet Shark
April 06, 2019 15:38 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBFollowup 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 X...
Episode 32 - It's a Proper Chunky Boy
January 22, 2019 18:34 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBFollowup 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 se...
Episode 31 - A Series of Small Fires
October 29, 2018 19:57 - 34 minutes - 24.1 MBFollowup 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 Lak...
Episode 30 - Throw It All In The Sea
August 24, 2018 19:25 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBFU 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?
Episode 29 - Total Donkey
June 14, 2018 19:49 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBMore 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 paralle...
Episode 28 - Taking a Baby
April 16, 2018 18:39 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBNvidia 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 Pap...
Episode 27 - Either Which Way Round
March 14, 2018 21:45 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBFollowup 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 X...
Episode 26 - The Three is Silent
January 29, 2018 18:18 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBCGP 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 ...
Episode 25 - Prime Nonsense
December 21, 2017 22:01 - 33 minutes - 23 MBFU 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...
Episode 24 - I'm Not Special Any More
December 07, 2017 22:21 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBFU 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 ...
Episode 23 - I Ate a Lot of Pretzels
October 30, 2017 20:58 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBFollowup 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 AutonomouStuff Project Denver Caffe 2 ONNX Side rant on Linux notebooks: PNY PrevailPro P4000 Razer Blade Stealth with Kaby Lake 15W 4-core Dell XPS 13 with Kaby Lake 15W 4-core Image -...
Episode 22 - 1.2 Million Dollars of Hardware
October 19, 2017 18:33 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBFollowup 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 iPhone X Apple Special Event video Macrumors Live Coverage Iain predicts Apple NN hardware in iPhones, 2016 Apple’s Machine Learning Journal NVDLA - Nvidia Deep Learning Accelerator P...
Episode 21 - ARM Macs?
September 25, 2017 19:11 - 31 minutes - 22 MBeGPU 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 Kaby Lake overview Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 overview Windows RT Windows S Aftershow Which common technologies might be dead next? jQuery
Episode 20 - How does the Internet Work?
August 09, 2017 16:31 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBFollowup 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 HoloLens Google Glass for Industry Adobe Flash EOL Adobe announcement Google Chrome no longer runs Flash by default - December 2016 How does the Internet Work? What is “Webscale”? Ra...
Episode 19 - It's More of a Tea Tray
July 05, 2017 17:59 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBIntel 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 Video - Introducing ARKit Mac OS support for eGPU Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box Steam VR Tracking 2 RX580 shortage HEVC / H.265 Video - Introducing HEIF and HEVC HEIF Nokia documenta...
Episode 18 - Depressed Grad Student Slash Intern
June 13, 2017 19:19 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBFollowup 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 in photos 2017 SIGGRAPH Technical Papers Preview Trailer 2017 SIGGRAPH Technical Papers Preview Trailer - with super enthusiastic guy! Google Research Nightime Photography Google Ph...
Episode 17 - Procount
May 15, 2017 17:05 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBMac 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
Episode 16 - A Flexible Omnishambles
May 03, 2017 18:09 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBLyrebird 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 Project servers See episode 6 for LGA3647 chat. Actual Intel Optane products HDD Cache Module Drama DC P4800X enterprise SSD Google Guetzli perceptual JPEG encoder Announcement post Dou...
Episode 15 - What is AI?
April 05, 2017 18:46 - 39 minutes - 27.5 MBModal 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 Learning results on Google Trends Alexnet Imagenet Challenge Generative Visual Manipulation on the Natural Image Manifold Deep Learning skin cancer identification Argumentation Theory...
Episode 14 - You've Munged This Whole Thing
March 06, 2017 19:49 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBFollowup 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! NYC Taxi Trip Data Stratus, 24 years uptime and counting Stratus Technologies Intel i860 CPUs Apple’s ARM Co-Processor High-Speed Sony Camera Sensors for Smartphones Faster Kaby Lake ...
Episode 13 - Random Tech News Podcast
February 06, 2017 19:14 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBDoug 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 memory-intensive applications and offer better price per GiB of RAM than R3.” Joe Domato’s Linux Kernel Receive Tuning Guide Amazon EC2 F1 instances Power8 Performance Numbers Calculating time rem...
Episode 12 - That'd Be a Pretty Small Truck
December 21, 2016 20:05 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBAMD 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 Borehole Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors Unlocked Intel i3 Processor: i3-7350k Intel self driving cars Emulated Intel on arm Bluetooth 5 now available ...
Episode 11 - 13,700 Files
December 04, 2016 22:01 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBSuperComputing ‘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 SteamOS Intel Skull Canyon NUC Aftershow Screenshot of another of Doug’s projects, which has 26,303 dependent files Yarn Javascript Package Manager Leftpad package deleted from NPM, chao...
Episode 10 - Long on the Internet
November 16, 2016 21:17 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBFollowup 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 cable nightmares Macbook Pro Thunderbolt 3 asymettric port speeds BizonBOX No more startup chime Restoring the startup chime 16GB RAM ceiling due to power concerns More on the RAM c...
Episode 9 - Serious Beards and Facial Hair
October 28, 2016 16:50 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBAMD 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 Training TensorFlow models for use with iOS Apple hiring Nvidia driver engineers GTC Europe Nvidia announced Volta architecture with Xavier “AI Supercomputer” Ultra-Wide Curved Dell monitor...
Episode 8 - Only 50 Euros Shipping
September 19, 2016 16:37 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBFollowup 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 Nine-levels of depth detection Remours of Intel modems in iPhone 7 Some Sensor Sums On a 7+, the wide is 3.99mm /_f_1.8 on 1/3”, and the tele a 6.6mm /f2.8 on 1/3.2” Angle of view is α = ...
Episode 7 - Special Apple September Keynote Flash Express Edition™
September 07, 2016 20:11 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBApple 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
Episode 6 - Waving Their Latest and Greatest Around
September 05, 2016 16:04 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBBeeeeeeeeer 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 Latency Numbers IDF Doug says H.264 instead of H.265 @ 12:57. Nvidia doesn’t like Intel’s Benchmarks Pincount 3647! Phi in the Ark Why Didn’t Larrabe Fail Amazon charts AMD do CPUs too An...
Episode 5 - Glass and Gold Velcro
August 08, 2016 20:35 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBDisplays 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 Computer Museum Aftershow Bad microwave interface design KnobFeel - the non-porn Tumblr Iain’s student microwave, Comrades.
Episode 4 - How the Sausage is Made
August 01, 2016 20:31 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MBFollowup 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 external cable adaptor Portable PC Case How the Sausage is Made The PincountPodcast.com source code Jekyll Static Web Framework No-WWW Aftershow Matlab
Episode 3 - Silly Names
July 30, 2016 07:56 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBFollowup 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 Tensorflow FPGAs for Robot Arms
Episode 2 - HR in VR
July 21, 2016 20:48 - 34 minutes - 24 MBFollowup 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 VR Lands End - The game Iain couldn’t remember. Video nonsense HEVC / H.265 VP9 Intel E5-1500 V5 CPUs with hardware HVEC encoding. Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Series supports H.265 decodi...
Episode 1 - Being Cheeky
July 18, 2016 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBMetal 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