Brad's tired of throttling his CPU due to an inadequate heatsink. Will's been spending a lot more time testing PC hardware of late. Between those two things, we thought it was a good time to do a check-in on CPU cooling, and primarily liquid cooling, so we can establish the facts on the ground about modern AIOs and custom loops with an eye toward helping Bra ... Show More
May 31
341: F2 Is My Most Used F
Question time again! This month we discuss quite a wide range of topics, such as tracking down printer dots with a USB microscope, the dream of going to SIGGRAPH, the legality of scanning and uploading "lost" old magazines, how to stay objective about new stuff as you get older, ... Show More
1h 20m
May 17
339: Billionaires Versus Dinosaurs
After a couple years off, we're returning to our annual tradition of each picking a year for our birthdays that we want to review in-depth from a tech and science perspective. This time Will picked 2002 because... well, you'll see, but it gave us the opportunity to reflect on a b ... Show More
1h 22m
May 10
338: Everything for Everything
Somehow the news just keeps happening, so we're here to round up and chew over another handful of headlines this week. Discussed on this episode are stories about canary traps in political databases, AMD bringing true HDMI 2.1 support to Linux, Microsoft's latest efforts to open- ... Show More
58m 1s
Oct 2025
WCH Podcast and Patreon Update
An update for you on the Working Class History podcast and its future. In short, we began releasing much more frequent podcast episodes 18 months ago, in an effort to get more supporters on Patreon. While we were able to grow our support, it has not been sufficient to cover our i ... Show More
4m 30s
Mar 2025
180: Reinforcement Learning
Patrick and Jason introduce reinforcement learning and place it alongside supervised and unsupervised learning. They cover Q-learning, SARSA, policy gradients, actor-critic methods, PPO, imitation learning, and why training and evaluating RL systems is so challenging.
1h 52m
Jan 2025
The future of our memories
From creating "synthetic" memories to reviving ruined monuments, tech no longer simply stores the past—it can enhance it. This hour, we explore new ways to capture, share and even recreate our past. Guests include technologist Pau Aleikum Garcia, cartoonist Amy Kurzweil and digit ... Show More
49m 39s
Jan 2025
Your brain is the next tech frontier
We're entering a new era of brain monitoring and enhancement, but what are the ethical implications? This hour, TED speakers explore the potential and pitfalls of merging our minds with machines. Guests include legal scholar and AI ethicist Nita Farahany, neurotechnologist and en ... Show More
49m 37s