Computing Limit Computerphile

Summary

Just how far can we go with processing speed? Physicist Professor Phil Moriarty talks about the hard A web app that works out how many seconds ago something happened. How hard can coding that be? Tom Scott explains how ... The story of recursion continues as Professor Brailsford explains one of the most difficult programs to With new operating systems requiring security hardware, what is this hardware and why do we need it? Dr Steve Bagley takes ... Network Basics story continues with the second part of the TCP segment. Richard G Clegg is based at Queen Mary University ... Why can't floating point do money? It's a brilliant solution for speed of calculations in the How programmers found ways to push the hardware past its design Just what can you do with a quantum Bug Byte puzzle here - bit.ly/4bnlcb9 - and apply to Jane Street programs here - bit.ly/3JdtFBZ (episode sponsor). Correction : as oodles of commenters have pointed out, the clock face should go from 0 to n-1. Also, worth reminding people that ... After a recent collaboration with an artist, Professor Moriarty is exploring whether the physics within patterns and art can be ... They're called 'Finite State Automata" and occupy the centre of Chomsky's Hierarchy - Professor Brailsford explains the ultimate ... Big Data sounds a buzz word, and is hard to quantify, but the problems with large data sets are very real. Dr Isaac Triguero ... Surely decimal numbers are easier to understand than binary? So why don't Why do we have 8 bits in a byte? Professor Brailsford on the origins of the humble byte. Why Use Binary?