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Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form.
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- Books in the Box VI · 1 t. 20 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 25It's the annual Oxide and Friends tradition: Books in the Box! What books have the Oxide friends enjoyed? Didn't catch the show live, feel free to add your book recommendation as…
- Dead Printers Tell No Tales · 1 t. 18 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 24We've talked about Oxide's Root of Trust--the hardware underpinning the security of the product--but how do we keep a bad actor from spoofing Oxide to load malicious software?…
- Oxide's $445M Series D · 1 t. 21 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 23After raising $200M in February... we raised another $445M in July! Your favorite computer company is capitalized to the gills--enough to weather the supply chain upheaval even!…
- Working on Wicked Problems · 1 t. 26 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 22Wicked problems defy simple solutions. Even as we describe the problem, we may be presupposing particular solutions and narrowing scope. Our greatest, most persistent societal…
- For Want of a Resistor · 1 t. 23 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 21When the supply chain crunch catches up with you, sometimes a tiny resistor the size of a fleck of pepper is the difference between a world-class computer and... e-waste. Members…
- Emulating Oxide: How Faux Can You Go? · 1 t. 24 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 19We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording. How do you test configurations you haven't built yet?…
- AI Detection with Max Spero · 1 t. 1 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 20More and more, people are relying on AI to do their writing for them. Is this the new normal, or the intellectual equivalent of claiming take-out is your own home cooking? Max…
- The Return to the Chamber of Mysteries · 1 t. 16 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 18Oxide returns to the chamber... of EMC compliance to earn FCC approval to sell our next generation rack. Did it go smoothly? If it had, would there be a podcast episode? Oxide…
- The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison · 1 t. 24 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 17Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a wild couple of weeks in AI. First, we have a high-profile, AI-induced, AI-diagnosed security incident. Next we have the rise of…
- The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Storytelling with Ramy Katrib · 1 t. 4 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 16Ramy Katrib has been at the forefront of digital storytelling for over 25 years, with his post-production company, DigitalFilm Tree, earning a reputation as one of Hollywood's…
- The Oxide 3D Explorer · 1 t. 14 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 15Recently, Oxide rolled out an eye-popping 3D rack explorer at explorer.oxide.computer. Oxide's designer extraordinaire, Ben Leonard, joined Bryan and Adam to describe the process…
- The Hardest Kind of Unsafe Rust · 1 t. 28 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 14We love Rust for how much the compiler helps enforce safety. But sometimes it's up to us to uphold the complex--and often unclear--expectations of what constitutes safety on our…
- This Old Repo: LLMs and the Restoration of BattleTris · 1 t. 18 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 13Bryan and Adam discuss the process of restoring a software project--BattleTris--untouched and unbuilt in over 20 years! How did LLMs help restore code Bryan started in the…
- Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel · 1 t. 2 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 12Two years ago we introduced listeners to the Oakland Ballers, the startup returning baseball to the city of Oakland. Bryan and Adam were joined again by Paul Freedman and Bryan…
- The Tale of Reverso · 1 t. 6 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 11Oxide ships a rack scale system--how to test the manufacturing of the backplane and switches? Previously we've been using a collection of sacrificial servers, but this was…
- AI in Computer Science Education · 1 t. 29 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 10AI is an existential topic for all aspects of education--for none more so than Computer Science. Bryan and Adam were joined by Kathi Fisler and Shriram Krishnamurthi, professors…
- Mechanical Engineering at Oxide [chapter images] · 1 t. 24 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 9Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide mechanical engineering team to talk the mechanical challenges of building a rack-scale computer, and--in particular--of scaling…
- Are LLMs Insufficently Lazy? · 1 t. 31 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 8Brogrammer Garry Tan has been boasting about "writing" tens of thousands of lines of code each day as the paragon of productivity. Is this really the right way to think about…
- Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack · 1 t. 26 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 7The Oxide rack contains within it a distributed system that needs to trust itself. But how is this trust built? Bryan and Adam were joined by colleagues Andrew and Finch to…
- When Nine Nines Isn't Enough · 1 t. 24 min. · Sæson 6 Episode 6Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide team to describe the multi-year search for a mysterious source of hardware failures. All related to an ultra-reliable--and yet…
