What is Network Time Protocol (NTP)?
Just how do computers synchronise clocks across the Internet? Dr Julian Onions implemented this at Nottingham after meeting the godfather of Internet time, Dave Mills!
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Robot Decision Making – Computerphile
Deterministic route finding isn’t enough for the real world – Nick Hawes of the Oxford Robotics Institute takes us through some problems featuring probabilities.
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Stable Diffusion in Code (AI Image Generation)
Mike Continues his look at AI Image Generation with Stable Diffusion
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How AI Image Generators Work (Stable Diffusion / Dall-E)
AI image generators are massive, but how are they creating such interesting images? Dr Mike Pound explains what’s going on.
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LaMDA Logic
Discussing the philosophical ideas behind AI Sentience, with Professor Mark Jago, Professor of Philosophy at University of Nottingham.
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Reverse Engineering Software Explained
You just have the binary – can you work out what it does & how? Dr Steve Bagley talks about how you might reverse engineer a piece of software.
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AI Language Models & Transformers
Plausible text generation has been around for a couple of years, but how does it work – and what’s next? Rob Miles on Language Models and Transformers.
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No, it’s not Sentient – Computerphile
Computerphile adds their two cents (pence?) to the recent drama around a Google researcher’s claim that his AI project had become sentient
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The OG Computer: How to Make Your Own Abacus
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Think that the first computer was created during WW2? The 1800s with Babbage’s mechanical computer? Nope. the Ancient Egyptians had the OG: an abacus.
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Why Information Theory is Important
Zip files & error correction depend on information theory, Tim Muller takes us through how Claude Shannon’s early Computer Science work is still essential today!
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