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...

   Nearly nine million Windows machines were taken out by the Crowdstrike problem in July , 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 https: twitter.com computer phile ...

   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: rendezvous.com https: www.facebook.com computerphile...

   Ray tracing is massive and gives realistic graphics in games amp; movies but how does it work Lewis Stuart 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...

   Bug Byte puzzle here https: bit.ly bnlcb and apply to Jane Street programs here https: bit.ly JdtFBZ 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...

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

   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 https: twitter.com computer phile This video was...

   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...

   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. ...

   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 OZyHzYFSgI https: www.facebook.com computerphile https: twitter.com computer phile This video was filmed and edited by...

   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...

   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...

   A new technique to turn pictures of a scene into a D 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 ...

   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 oFqbVJm gw Zac’s code: https: bit.ly C Zac L systems https: www...

   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 ...