A Transient Labs production · English

THE
DEEP END.

Long-form engineering deep dives.

From distributed databases and industrial systems to the mathematics behind modern computing. Follow the ideas beneath the surface.

Coming soon. Listening links will appear here as the show launches.

The Deep End show cover, by Sankalp Thakur

The collection

29 episodes · Around one hour each
01Engineering Deep Dives

Distributed Databases

64 min
02Engineering Deep Dives

EUV Lithography

58 min
03Engineering Deep Dives

Industrial Networks and OT Security

59 min
04Engineering Deep Dives

GPU Hardware Design

59 min
05Engineering Deep Dives

Well Integrity

57 min
06Engineering Deep Dives

Quantum Error Correction

58 min
07Engineering Deep Dives

Reservoir Engineering

63 min
08Engineering Deep Dives

Spectral Graph Theory

61 min
09Engineering Deep Dives

The Story of Hashing

61 min
10Engineering Deep Dives

Cloud Data Warehouses

64 min
11Engineering Deep Dives

Data Lakes and Lakehouses

58 min
12Engineering Deep Dives

Real-Time Analytics and Industrial Data Platforms

60 min
13Engineering Deep Dives

Control Theory and State Estimation

64 min
14Engineering Deep Dives

Why Metal Fails: Fracture and Fatigue

63 min
15Engineering Deep Dives

Information Theory

62 min
16Engineering Deep Dives

Seismic Imaging and Full-Waveform Inversion

62 min
17Mathematical Abstraction

Mathematical Abstraction, Part 1: Algebra

58 min
18Mathematical Abstraction

Mathematical Abstraction, Part 2: Analysis

58 min
19Mathematical Abstraction

Mathematical Abstraction, Part 3: Topology and Geometry

55 min
20Mathematical Abstraction

Mathematical Abstraction, Part 4: Category Theory

54 min
21Mathematical Abstraction

Mathematical Abstraction, Part 5: Number Theory

61 min
22Mathematical Abstraction

Mathematical Abstraction, Part 6: Probability and Information

58 min
23Mathematical Abstraction

Mathematical Abstraction, Part 7: Logic and Computability

60 min
24Mathematical Abstraction

Mathematical Abstraction, Part 8: Combinatorics and Dynamics

57 min
25Mathematical Abstraction

Mathematical Abstraction, Part 9: Higher Homotopy

57 min
26Mathematical Abstraction

Mathematical Abstraction, Part 10: Condensed Mathematics and the Synthesis

61 min
27Million-Token Machine

Million-Token Machine, Part 1: The KV Cache Wars

62 min
28Million-Token Machine

Million-Token Machine, Part 2: The Architecture

64 min
29Million-Token Machine

Million-Token Machine, Part 3: Training and Serving at Scale

63 min

Behind the collection

Sankalp Thakur

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