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YouTube videos about computers and the internet and stuff... Sister project to @numberphile
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Are you ready for a whole playlist of NEW VIDEOS featuring
@_mikepound
talking about data analysis?
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Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Prof Ross Anderson.
RIP
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Exciting to meet Masayuki Uemura - creator of the Nintendo Famicom/NES at
@nvmuk
today - we even played some Donkey Kong!
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Does the WWII Enigma Cipher hold up against 2021 computing power?
@_mikepound
just had to code it up and check:
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Fabulous to be filming once again with legends Professors Kernighan and Brailsford 💻
Special thanks to
@drstevebagley
for additional camerawork!
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Considering attempting to make a video where I edit it on a raspberry pi 4 - any interest in this?
(Asking as it may not be plain sailing! >Sean )
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As we prepare to hit the next decade, spare a thought for all the developers who had to cope with the change of millennium!
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A processor you can walk around, slow down & step through instructions
@computermuseum
's incredible MegaProcessor
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Taking advantage of the fine weather to do some socially distanced filming with Professor Brailsford
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"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it"
#facebookdown
#facebookoutage
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All year we've been using "What's your favourite programming language?" as the sound-check question...
Here are the answers
#BringOnTheComments
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;)
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sneak peek early edit preview of our AI Sentience film.
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With more and more users switching to Signal, you might want to know how it works.
Luckily
@_mikepound
has you covered:
#signal
#instantmessaging
#WhatsApp
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Ever wondered how Shazam works?
@domminney
built us a music recognising simulator for this video:
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Do indie app developers have an advantage or risk looking less professional? More with
@marcoarment
--- NEW VIDEO
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We've done "Questions for Brian Kernighan" & "Questions for Professor Brailsford"
Now it's time for "Questions for Mike Pound"
@_mikepound
Drop them below and we'll try to answer as many as we can
#computerscience
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Happy Birthday rPi !!
On this day in 2011, we launched a website to talk about a small, low-cost computer we were making to help people learn stuff.
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If anyone would be interested in a Q&A with a self-isolated Professor Brailsford, send us your questions!
(We've kitted him put with a camera and a microphone!)
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"All your data are belong to us"
How apps use Facebook & Social Media to glean data from users
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Filming today with Brian Kernighan - any questions for the legend?
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That feeling when you're trying to demo aliasing and your graphics software is fighting to make it look nice
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Great to catch up with
@robertskmiles
again today ;)
(With the inevitable <human-made> cup of tea)
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Two legends for the price of one!
We grabbed a pot of coffee and sat Professor Brailsford down with Professor Brian Kernighan!
#unix
#computerscience
#computer_science
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The web connection you're using to read this tweet uses encryption that works a bit like this:*
(
@_mikepound
on SP Networks)
*Obligatory clickbait title
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Back at University of Nottingham CS! What topics should we cover next?
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Wishing everyone a happy holiday season from Computerphile, and if you ever wondered how the humble mouse works, check out our x-mouse video:
#mouse
#computerscience
@drstevebagley
@UoNComputerSci
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So, we made a video on DeepFake, in which
@_mikepound
offhandedly mentioned how he couldn't stand in for Tom Cruise.
Obviously one Redditor couldn't resist!
(did this break Reddit?!)
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Hear Professor Brian Kernighan talking about the successors to C and what he considers his hardest challenge:
#programming
#CompSci
#C
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Remind me again why I'm trying to animate a projection of a 7D hypercube in 3D?
#ForIllustrativePurposesOnly
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Having a rest after computerphile editing, I'm hoping they can find my food >Sean
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Using a sixty year old language to program Quantum computers.
@stylewarning
introduces Lisp:
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CPU design flaws on an unprecedented scale. We talk to
@drstevebagley
on Spectre & Meltdown
#Spectre
#meltdown
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The secret key exchange that your machine is using right now
@_mikepound
on Diffie-Hellman :
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Setting up the overhead camera to capture Professor Brailsford's notes!
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Is the only thing he got wrong the headphone socket?
(unless you count the fact that Google & Siri would probably screw up the deal with Bob...) >Sean
In 1999, I asked David Gerrold to write a "future of computing" prediction for the magazine where I was Technology Editor. Here's what he wrote.
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Incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Masayuki Uemura of Nintendo fame.
Feel privileged to have met him and watched him play Donkey Kong and chatted NES
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Ever wondered what's behind functional programming?
Lambda Calculus :
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An exploit whereby you point a camera at an LED and capture a secret key? Sounds far fetched?
@_mikepound
illuminates!
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This thread is great - warning, it's a long read so grab a cup of coffee! -Sean
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How does Google order the vast amounts of information you can search for? Professor Simperl explains Knowledge Graphs.
@esimperl
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"
@ozgurakgun
: this is indeed how most programs work on a multicore computer!
http://t.co/Qk62cP03pa"
love this 😉 >Sean
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"Just send me a PDF" - but what kind of PDF?
Professor Brailsford explains three different kinds of PDF which may or may not suit your needs!
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The C Programming Language, by the guy who (co)wrote the book:
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"Real programmers use absolute binary"
Professor Brailsford using Hello World to explain how Assemblers came about:
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In memory of Clive Sinclair, the inventor who kick-started computing in the '80s with his affordable Sinclair ZX range (Some were sold as Timex in the US)
#Sinclair
#SirCliveSinclair
#zx80
#zx81
#zxSpectrum
#speccie
#spectrum
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Heartbleed - We look in detail at the code containing the heartbleed bug and demonstrate how it was exploited...
http://t.co/lbA6cP0stE
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We got together with Alex
@LowSpec_Gamer
for a chat about using low spec hardware to play modern games
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One for the coders too…
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Wondering how instant messaging services do end to end encryption?
Look no further as
@_mikepound
explains.the signal protocol:
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In AI language models, size matters!
No sooner do we talk GPT3, Google had to go and release an even bigger one!
Here's the GPT3 video:
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I live after effects but it can be greedy for resources!
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25 Years since Sonic hit our eyeballs, now one developer is making a brand new Sega game.
In assembler.
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