Pincount Podcast

Episode 33 - A Pink Velvet Shark

* Followup * Benchmarks of Memcached on multiple SSDs [https://memcached.org/blog/nvm-multidisk/] * EC2 Graviton benchmarks - Phoronix [https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ec2-graviton-performance&num=1] * Some DL problems are intractable [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00012-4] * 7nm [https://twitter.com/mspoweruser/status/1083085890463956996] * Complete Coffee Lake CPU list - Anandtech [https://www.anandtech.com/show/14058/complete-coffee-lake-refresh-cpu-list] * Available in 2019 iMacs [https://www.macrumors.com/2019/03/19/2019-imac-refresh/] * Jetson Nano [https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-nano/] * Google Stadia - The Verge [https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/20/18273977/google-stadia-cloud-game-streaming-service-report] * Netflix Open Connect [https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/] * ESRGAN texture packs [https://youtu.be/FsoyC9j9MV0] * Playable raytraced Quake 2 * Article [http://brechpunkt.de/q2vkpt/] * HN Discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18944901] * Battlefield V RTX Demo [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1fdpybF-8Y] * RTX On/Off Meme, fellow kids [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rtx-off-rtx-on] * ARM Helium vector extensions * Article [https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ARMv8.1-M-Helium-Vector-Ext] * GradientFlow - Training ImageNet in 1.5 Minutes on 512 GPUs [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19247515] * Thinkpad X210 [https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/03/04/thinkpad-x210/] * Aftershow * Microsft Wall of GPU History [https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/directx/2019/01/07/wall-of-gpu-history/] * Farming Simulator peripherals [https://www.logitechg.com/en-gb/products/farm.html] * Cup throwing robots [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZm9ZEpvolw]

Episode 32 - It's a Proper Chunky Boy

* Followup * Linus Tech Tips - Linus Swaps Hard Drive Actuator [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3lPghtUucs] * LLVM in Webkit update * Webkit B3 JIT Compiler [https://webkit.org/blog/5852/introducing-the-b3-jit-compiler/] * LLVM Wikipedia - History [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM#History] * Initialism [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialism] * CES * Alienware Area 51 M * The Verge - Report [https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/8/18167444/alienware-area-51m-desktop-laptop-features-price-release-date-ces-2019] * The Verge - Video interview with Alienware Product Lead [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozUt5Two0X0] * Intel Ark - Core i9-9900K [https://ark.intel.com/products/186605/Intel-Core-i9-9900K-Processor-16M-Cache-up-to-5-00-GHz-] * LGA 1151 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1151] * LG Rollable TV - The Verge video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iylZD9RaYek] * Intel Keynote * Anandtech coverage [https://www.anandtech.com/show/13774/intels-keynote-at-ces-2019-10nm-ice-lake-lakefield-snow-ridge-cascade-lake] * Ian Cutress tweet about 28 core high-clock Xeon pricing [https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1082076258106695681] * Gsync on freesync * The Verge coverage [https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/1/7/18171631/nvidia-g-sync-support-freesync-monitors] * Linus Tech Tips video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOsJzV8yzic] * Microsoft 896 core servers [https://www.anandtech.com/show/13522/896-xeon-cores-in-one-pc-microsofts-new-x86-datacenter-class-machines-running-windows] * Global Kernel locks in APFS [https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2018/10/29/global-kernel-locks-in-apfs/] * Iain’s tweet about Google Bart [https://twitter.com/the_accidental/status/1057920327571959808] * MN-Core [https://projects.preferred.jp/mn-core/en/] * Pentagram designs for Graphcore [https://www.pentagram.com/work/graphcore] * Intel Nervana [https://ai.intel.com/nervana-nnp/] * AWS re:Invent * AWS Ground Station [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ground-station-ingest-and-process-data-from-orbiting-satellites/] * ARM on EC2 * AWS Announcement [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/] * The Register coverage [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/27/amazon_aws_graviton_specs/] * AMD EPYC on EC2 [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-lower-cost-amd-powered-ec2-instances/] * Intel Cascade Lake Xeon - Pincount news! [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/intel-announces-cascade-lake-xeons-48-cores-and-12-channel-memory-per-socket/] * Sub $1000 IBM Power9 motherboard [https://hackaday.com/2018/11/26/a-sub-1000-non-x86-motherboard/] * Adversarial Examples that Fool both Human and Computer Vision [https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1802.08195/] * Fast and accurate object detection in high resolution 4K and 8K video using GPUs [https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1810.10551/]

Episode 31 - A Series of Small Fires

* Followup * Episode 5 [https://pincountpodcast.com/episodes/5.html] * Anandtech - iPhone Xs displays [https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-review-unveiling-the-silicon-secrets/8] * Amazon S3 Versioning [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Versioning.html] * Amazon S3 Object Lifecycle Rules [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/object-lifecycle-mgmt.html] * Backblaze - Going Deep On Durability [https://www.backblaze.com/blog/cloud-storage-durability/] * Skype white noise * Tweet by Nicbravo [https://twitter.com/nicbravo/status/1038599239000096768] * Wikipedia - Comfort Noise [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_noise] * Threadripper 2 Performance on Linux vs Windows [https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=2990wx-linux-windows&num=2] * Nvidia RTX * Tim Dettmer’s updated DL GPU recommendations [http://timdettmers.com/2018/08/21/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/] * Nvidia Video to Video Synthesis * Demo [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrP_aOSXt5U] * Source code [https://github.com/NVIDIA/vid2vid] * Deep Angel [http://deepangel.media.mit.edu] * iOS 12 Core ML benchmarks [https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/ios-12-core-ml-benchmarks-b7a79811aac1] * iPhone Xs Javascript benchmarks * DHH Tweet [https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1043277162676072449] * Webkit LLVM [https://webkit.org/blog/3362/introducing-the-webkit-ftl-jit/] * Intel CPUs * Intel Whiskey Lake, Amber Lake [https://www.anandtech.com/show/13275/intel-launches-whiskey-lake-amber-lake] * Intel Xeon Roadmap new DL instructions [https://www.anandtech.com/show/13194/intel-shows-xeon-2018-2019-roadmap-cooper-lakesp-and-ice-lakesp-confirmed] * 10nm in NUC [https://www.anandtech.com/show/13233/intel-crimson-canyon-nuc-with-cannon-lake-10nm] * Intel Xeon W-3175X - Anandtech [https://www.anandtech.com/show/13449/intel-announces-xeon-w3175x-28core-processor-for-extreme-workstations] * Reminiscing about old PCs * Commodore 64 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64] * ZX Spectrum [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum] * Amstrad PC1512 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC1512] * Amstrad PPC 640 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPC_512] * BT Gold [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom_Gold] * School computers * Dan’s Tweet [https://twitter.com/teadriven/status/1041806765246038018] * BBC Micro [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro] * Acorn Archimedes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes] * Tesco Computers for Schools Vouchers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco#Corporate_social_responsibility] * Apple iBook [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook] * Iain’s cooling “solution” [/assets/images/episodes/31/iains-cooling-solution.jpg] * HP Jornada [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jornada_(PDA)] * Windows Mobile [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_PC] * Dell Streak [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Streak] * How the computing world was represented in high-school computing. * Mainframe [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer] * Batch Processing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_processing] * Token Ring Bus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_ring]

Episode 30 - Throw It All In The Sea

* FU * More on local Python web servers. * Pincount development server [https://github.com/dougal/pincountpodcast.com/blob/master/bin/server] * RangeHTTPServer [https://github.com/smgoller/rangehttpserver] * virtualenv [https://pypi.org/project/virtualenv/] * Conda [https://conda.io/docs/] * Intel 10nm * Holiday 2019 - Anandtech [https://www.anandtech.com/show/13126/intel-10nm-production-systems-for-holiday-2019] * Episode 29 [https://pincountpodcast.com/episodes/29.html] * 2018 Macbook Pro - Macrumors [https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/12/apple-launches-2018-macbook-pro-lineup/] * Backups * Apple Time Machine [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(macOS)] * SuperDuper! [https://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper] * RAID is not a backup [https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Why-RAID-is-usually-a-Terrible-Idea-29/] * ZFS [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS] * Backblaze [https://www.backblaze.com] * Tarsnap [https://www.tarsnap.com] * Parchive [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive] * Gary Bernhardt’s corrupted par2 restore script [https://gist.github.com/garybernhardt/a5e166653605c43b048cffbf5333edf3] * Windows 10 File History [https://www.pcworld.com/article/2974385/windows/how-to-use-windows-10s-file-history-backup-feature.html] * Aftershow * Pokemon or Big Data? [https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/]

Episode 29 - Total Donkey

* More ARM on servers * Cloudfront rewrite image processing using NEON to beat out Intel equivalent [https://blog.cloudflare.com/neon-is-the-new-black/] * HN discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16831609] * Anandtech Thunder X2 review [https://www.anandtech.com/show/12694/assessing-cavium-thunderx2-arm-server-reality] * Homebrew supports ARM CPUs, maybe only on Linux? [https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/5ca7cd3071d12b97b2c497a0edae574e3920c0d7] * Qualcomm to exit ARM Server chips? [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-07/qualcomm-is-said-to-plan-exit-from-server-chips-amid-cost-cuts] * 10nm Intel CPUs in the wild * Intel Core i3-8121U [https://ark.intel.com/products/136863/Intel-Core-i3-8121U-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3_20-GHz] * Lenovo Ideapad 330 - Anandtech [https://www.anandtech.com/show/12749/first-10nm-cannon-lake-laptop-spotted-online-lenovo-ideapad-330-for-449] * Facebook job ad for a chip designer [https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000KujvKEAR] * Xeon with integrated FPGA - Anandtech [https://www.anandtech.com/show/12773/intel-shows-xeon-scalable-gold-6138p-with-integrated-fpga-shipping-to-vendors] * Pincount Episode 18 [/episodes/18.html] * Command line utilities * htop [https://hisham.hm/htop/] * htop in more detail than you ever cared about [https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/] * GNU parallel [https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/] * GNU parallel tutorial [https://www.biostars.org/p/63816/] * GNU parallel book [http://www.lulu.com/shop/ole-tange/gnu-parallel-2018/paperback/product-23558902.html] * SimpleHTTPServer - For Python 2 [https://docs.python.org/2/library/simplehttpserver.html] * http.server - For Python 3 [https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/http.server.html] * tmux [https://github.com/tmux/tmux] * GNU screen [https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/] * Byobu [http://byobu.co] * inotifywait [https://linux.die.net/man/1/inotifywait] * gnuplot [http://gnuplot.info] * feedgnuplot [https://github.com/dkogan/feedgnuplot] * strace - Linux [https://strace.io] * dtrace - Linux, Mac OS, Solaris [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace] * How to Debug Anything by James Golick [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV7b7fs4VI8] * Legally mandated Brendan Gregg Dtrace info [http://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html] * Bash [https://www.gnu.org/software/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 [https://fishshell.com] * Aftershow * IBM 5 in 5 [http://research.ibm.com/5-in-5/] * Crab simulator [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAwlq985iVA] * Goat simulator [http://goat-simulator.com]