Podcasts by STG podcast (Science, Technology, Gaming and Other Stuff)

Ep.66 Discussion about Nuclear Waste storage with Jarkko Stenfors from Posiva Part 2 from 2020-05-08T09:53:05

In this second part of the discussion about nuclear waste storage with Jarkko Stenfors from Posiva, we are discussing how the copper canisters containing the waste are tr...

Ep.65 Discussion about Nuclear Waste storage with Jarkko Stenfors from Posiva Part 1 from 2020-04-25T11:44:08

In this first part of the episode we are discussing about Posiva, how the nuclear waste is generated in the power plants and its short term storage. Then we s...

Ep.64 Half Life: Alyx discussion (contains spoilers) from 2020-03-27T16:54:20

We finally got to play the new VR Half Life game after 13 years of wait and it was so much more that we expected. In this episode we discuss about VR and how the game fits in the VR landscape as...

Ep.63 Microfabrication Series Ep.1 - Introduction from 2020-03-16T12:54:21

In this episode we are finally starting the Microfabrication series, sorry that took so long to get this done.

In the introduction we are trying to define what Microfabrication is, where ...

Ep.62 Satellites in Aalto and Space Science with Jaan Praks from 2020-02-09T19:37:54

In this episode I'm discussing with Jaan Praks about the many satellites that are being built in Aalto University and in general about space science. The discussion is really interesting startin...

Ep.61 Introduction to Virtual Reality (VR) from 2020-01-24T15:55:40

In this episode we are discussing our first impression of VR and some games we tried. I recently got a Windows mixed reality headset while Nicola has had a Valve Index for a while so we are also...

Ep.60 First of 2020, Plans for the next year and some random topics we want to discuss from 2020-01-10T11:00:29

In the first episode of 2020 we finally got together again after a pause that ended up being longer than expected with my 2 months trip to Japan after the summer holidays. 

This is a...

Ep.59 Open source and privacy in 2019 from 2020-01-08T17:07:45

In this episode we are having an organic discussion starting with  open source smartphone hardware and software to the future of open  source and privacy. This was an interesting discu...

Ep.58 Discussion about game design of Starbase with Artturi from 2020-01-08T17:07:11

In this episode we are discussing the upcoming game Starbase from  Frozenbyte with Artturi. He was missed in the podcast for a while and he  has been working on the game for a while. Listen

Ep.57 2019 E3 discussion (our opinins about the most interesting games) from 2020-01-08T17:06:35

In this episode we are discussing the year's E3 conference, which  games interested us the most and the news in hardware (both GPU and CPU)  annouced at the conference. There is no tal...

Ep.56 Chernobyl TV series, Robot vacuum-cleaners, Privacy and 5 nm semiconductor node from 2020-01-08T17:05:57

In this episode Juhana is finally back and we get to have another of  the random discussions about different topics. A bit about the Chernobyl  HBO series (go watch it), the robot vacu...

Ep.55 Random talk about games I’m playing from 2020-01-08T17:05:07

In this episode I'm speaking about some games I'm playing, a short one to fill some holiday time.

Games in the episode: AC origins, The Division 2 and Destiny 2, Generation Zero and Rage ...

Ep.54 More EU research. Railway tech, beer brewing and welding from 2020-01-08T17:04:09

Again I was left alone for this episodes and these are not easy to do  without a proper discussion, the interest feedback is missing when  speaking to a screen (at least my cat is here...

Ep.53 Nano-materials research in EU, roll-to-roll manufacturing, Microfluidics and printed electronics from 2020-01-08T17:00:44

In this episode I'm going through some results from a CORDIS results pack about nano-materials (Listen

Ep.52 Random rambling about emails, bathrooms and other stuff for the real 1 year worth of episodes. from 2020-01-08T16:57:53

To all the esteemed listeners,

We want to formally thank all of you for listening this podcast for  so long. We finally reached the big milestone of 1 year of actual  episodes a...

Ep.51 Something about Nuclear Power in Europe and Gen-4 reactors from 2020-01-08T16:55:43

In this shorter episode we have a discussion about the articles found on the Research*eu magazine on nuclear power research in the European ...

Ep.50 Inputs and human-machine interaction with focus on keyboard layout research with Anna Fait from 2020-01-08T16:51:24

In this episode we have a very interesting discussion with Anna Fait from ETH Zurich (Twitter @AnnaFeit and http://annafe...

Ep.48 Marine and Arctic Technology (ice breakers and ice physics) with Pentti Kujala from 2020-01-08T16:30:44

In this episode we discuss with Professor Kujala from Aalto  university about his research work in Marine technology with a focus on  the arctic (being located in Finland, there is alw...

Ep.47 Building a qube satellite in Aalto University with Esa Kallio from 2020-01-08T16:24:42

In this episode we are discussing with professor Esa Kallio from  Aalto about the satellites built in the university and how do you build a  cube satellite with students. The Aalto-1 w...

Ep.46 Carbon neutral district heating with Armi Temmes from 2020-01-08T16:17:35

In this episode we are discussing with Aalto University professor  Armi Temmes about the future of district heating in Finland. Most of the  discussion is revolving around the use of r...

Ep.45 AC-DC electricity history and high voltage DC power transmission with Mario from 2020-01-08T16:13:50

In this episode we are discussing with Mario about HVDC electricity  transportation starting from the electricity war between AC and DC and  moving around the topics a lot trying to ex...

Ep.44 Discussion on movies from books and vice-versa (sci-fi edition) with some book recommendations from 2020-01-08T16:09:58

In this episode we start speaking about some books we have read and  the conversation quickly goes to the difference we think there is  between some movies and their relative book. In ...

Ep.43 Apex Legends and F2P games. Also info about the long term series about Microfabrication from 2020-01-08T16:09:08

In this episode I'm discussing with Nicola our plans for a series of  episode where we will go through generally and in depth into Micro and  Nanofabrication as well as how the modern ...

Ep.42 1000+ downloads! Then some discussion about Anchor podcast hosting and the new Samsung Flex from 2020-01-08T16:07:04

In this episode we are celebrating the 1000 downloads milestone.  Might not be much but it is nice to know that people actually want to  listen to us (or start to just to making us fee...

Ep.41 Discussing Trigoni with Project manager Aleksa Pesic from YIT from 2019-02-18T10:20:19

In this episode we have a discussion with Aleksa about the Trigoni project, the tower complex in the Pasila district of Helsinki built by YIT. The Trigoni is a new complex of several towers as high...

Ep.40 Electric cars: challenges in materials, technology and combustion engine competition from 2019-02-08T12:40:12

In this episode me and Juhana are discussing what the future of electric cars could look. Not much of a deep down in data discussion but some surface issues that do not always capture the media and...

Ep.39 DeepMind's AI against professional Starcraft 2 players from 2019-02-01T13:51

In this episode we are discussing the recent results of Alphastar, the new deep learning algorithm from DeepBlue, playing Starcraft 2. The AI went 10-1 against 2 different pro gamers in Protoss vs ...

Ep.38 Our gaming history, from the first gaming experience to the HalfLife series. from 2019-01-25T07:59:48

In this episode we continue what has become Gaming January. We discuss about our history with videogames, from the first gaming consoles in the 90s to the first PCs and the games we remember from t...

Ep.37 Our Destiny 2 raiding experience and raids in other MMOs with Joe from 2019-01-18T13:31:23

In this episode we are discussing our recent raiding experinces together with Nicola and Joe (we are all friends from back at the university). Finally I manged to convince them to join me in Destin...

Ep.36 The first of the year about the new AMD hardware, Epic store, subscription services and privacy data from 2019-01-11T16:25:33

In this first episode of the year me and Juhana are having a relaxed discussion about some news and happenings in the gaming space. It is nice to begin the year with some discussion before trying t...

Ep.35 Reflections on the 2018 podcast year. from 2018-12-24T10:45:42

In this christmas episode I'm reflection on how this 2018 was for this podcast and what I personally learned from this experience. From the first episodes where we were just speaking about some top...

Ep.34 Random topic series; Genetic manipulation. Retro pi, remastering games and other stuff from 2018-12-08T15:50:17

This is one of the random episodes without guest and specific topics that always feel like a throw back to the beginning. Hopefully you enjoy some random discussion once in a while, come and let us...

Ep.33 Precursor chemistry, ALD of gold and random stuff with Sean Barry from 2018-11-30T12:57:51

In this episode we recorded in the Aalto studio in the Aalto University's Otaniemi campus with Prof. Sean Barry visiting us from Carleton University in Canada. We are discussing about synthesis of ...

Ep.32 Speaking Gin and Whiskey with Mikko from Helsinki Distilling company from 2018-11-25T14:05

This episode we are joined (while recording in his office) by the master distiller of Gin, Whiskey and more Mikko Mykkänen from Helsinki Distilling co. We have a nice discussion on the distillery, ...

Ep.31 Area selective ALD with Prof. Gregory Parsons from 2018-11-16T11:54:58

In this episode we are continuing the ALD series with Professor Gregory Parsons that is joining to speak about area selective ALD. As usual there is a general description on the topic followed by a...

Ep.30 Gin discussion with Moritz from Kalevala Gin from 2018-11-09T17:05:35

In this episode we are continuing the Gin series with another Gin distiller from Finland, Moritz Wüstenberg (@kalevalavodka) from Northern Lights Spirits Oy, the maker of the Kalavala Gin (@kaleval...

Ep.29 ALD from the tool manufacturer point of view with Esko from Picosun from 2018-10-26T12:30:25

In this episode I'm discussing with Esko, from tool manufacturer Picosun, about the industrial side of the technology. What is a small to medium ALD company do and how the industry approaches probl...

Ep.28 Some discussion about player investment in games aka f**k RNG from 2018-10-19T15:09:43

In this relaxed episode in between guests me and Juhana are discussing what do we think about how games keep you invested in playing them comparing the different ways. And also we really know that ...

Ep.27 ALD surface chemistry and Simulations with Simon Elliott from 2018-10-12T12:08:06

In this episode I'm joined by Simon Elliott (@simon_D_Elliott) from Schrödinger to talk about what computer simulations can teach us about the chemistry of ALD at the atomic level. The discussion s...

Ep.26 In-situ analysis of ALD deposition and applications with Prof. Christophe Detavernier from Ghent University from 2018-10-05T11:07:55

In this episode we kick off the ALD series with our first guest, Christophe, coming to speak about in-situ analysis of ALD deposition processes. The different methods (QCM, ellipsometry, Mass spect...

Ep.25 Industrial food production and research with Miia from 2018-09-28T12:48:16

In this episode we have our friend Miia from Fazer speaking with us about how food (cookies in particular) is made in an industrial scale. How are new products developed and then what is research i...

Ep. 24 Introduction to ALD from 2018-09-14T13:03:41

In this episode me and Nicola (he is finally back) are introducing and discussing Atomic Layer Deposition, its use in the industry as well as a comparison with other technologies. This introduction...

Ep.23 GIN discussion with Miika, CEO and Co-founder of Kyrö Distillery from 2018-09-07T14:38:13

In this quite special episode compare to the usual, we (that is only me actually) invite Miika (@ryemiika) to speak about GIN. The discussion goes from the story of the distillery to how to actuall...

Ep.22 Random discussion about games, Destiny, Guild wars, The Division and some more from 2018-08-31T11:53:58

In this episode me and Juhana ended up talking about some of the games we play and mechanics (mostly raids) in the modern MMO or shared world shooters. Some news and what we like about the games. N...

Ep.21 CUDA programming, Esports in Korea, the new RTX 2080 and Ray tracing tech from 2018-08-23T09:05:26

In this episode we have a nice relaxed conversation with Juhana about mostly Nvidia GPUs. The news about the newer card RTX 2080 and what do we think about the market moves of Nvidia. Then there is...

Ep.20 Chemical Deposition of Thin Films from 2018-08-17T15:24:16

In this episode I got left alone right after the summer holidays (that are not pver apparently) and I'm speaking about Chemical deposition of thin films. The episode is trying to be more lecture st...

Ep.19 Nuclear Fusion research with Pietro Part.2 from 2018-07-27T07:03:36

In this second episode we are again discussing with Pietro, a researcher at consorzio RFX in Padova (Italy) about Nuclear Fusion. This week's episode is more focused on the physics of nuclear fusio...

Ep.18 Nuclear Fusion research with Pietro Part.1 from 2018-07-19T15:18:22

In this episode we are discussing with Pietro, a researcher at consorzio RFX in Padova (Italy) about Nuclear Fusion. The discussion is divided in 2 parts, in this first one we are presenting the te...

Ep.17 3D graphic engine pipeline, graphic options in videogames explained from 2018-07-13T19:39:59

In this episode we discuss how a frame is drawn by a 3D renderer. Juhana worked on this so the episode is mostly him speaking and trying to explain clearly how the game engine create a frame starti...

Ep.16 UI, UX, Apps development journey and GitHub. Also some good bug stories from 2018-07-05T19:32:09

It this episode Sebastiano returns to speak a bit more about Android development, this time with a focus on UI and UX. We go through the path that an application might follow during development and...

Ep.15 From Arrival, movie and book, to Linguistic from 2018-06-30T17:12:25

In this episode Artturi has a chance to speak about his sturies in Linguistics. We start from the movie Arrival and the book (Story of your life) that is based of. From there (with spoilers since J...

Ep.14 E3 2018, all the games we found interesting from 2018-06-15T15:09:59

In this episode me, Juhana and Artturi go over and discuss the most interesting games announced at the E3 this year. We tried to keep it short-ish but there are way too many games all the time and ...

Ep.13 Medicinal Chemistry (Synthesis and analysis of new drugs) with Riky from 2018-06-08T17:16:42

In this episode with have our friend Riky joining us to speak about his doctorate research in new drugs synthesis for cancer and Alzheimer treatment. His work is done at the Medicinal Chemistry gro...

Ep.12 Dr. Mario, a researcher in Taiwan from 2018-06-08T17:00:03

In this episode I sit down together with Mario (literally since we are sitting near each other during the recording) to speak about his research and his experience as a researcher in Taiwan. Beginn...

Ep.11 Introduction to Thin films from 2018-06-08T16:58:06

It this episode I got left alone to start one of the original ideas of the podcast, introducing a topic and explain it in a general way as a foundation to a more deep dive later on.Thin films are o...

Ep.10 Game balancing (map design) with Artturi from 2018-06-08T16:56:34

So now that we got to episode 10 we are planning to change the name of the podcast a little to have Science, Technology and Gaming so that this series can be just part of the normal schedule. Nicol...

Ep.9 Game balancing (Competitive PvP) with Artturi from 2018-06-08T16:55:05

In this new episode of the series we speak about competitive PvP games and how those can be balanced or are balanced at the moment. We touch on the games we play the most (Rocket League, CS:GO and ...

Ep.8 Game balancing (PvE and PvP videogames) with Artturi from 2018-06-08T16:53:45

In the second part of the series is mostly about videogames. We discuss about balancing in both PvE (Player vs Enviroment) and PvP (Player vs Player) and how it is to balance them together or separ...

Ep.7 Android development with Seb from 2018-06-08T16:28:07

In this episode we are asking a lot of questions to my friend Sebastiano about Android inner working, Versions and updates, programming languages commonly used with some final discussion about UIs ...

Ep.6 Game balance with Artturi (RPGs, Online games,Feedback loops, esports) from 2018-06-08T16:26:27

In this episode we start the small series about game balancing with our guest Artturi. He is an amateur game designer with DIY experience in videogame level design and some personal tabletop games....

Ep.5 Simulations, bad coding, physics and Rocket league from 2018-06-08T16:22:39

This time it is me and Juhana with Henrique speaking about what they do, computer simulations and coding. Juhana got his shitty webcam and it is so bad that we went audio only for this one. Then we...

Ep. 4 Autonomous cars, Quality control and Juhana's server from 2018-06-08T16:16:42

This episode we are having a discussion about autonomous cars after the Uber test car accident, quality control in factory production and the server Juhana is building at home. Follow and speak wit...

Ep.3 The one about graphene and co. Ft. Fabian and Henrique from 2018-06-08T14:48:58

This week we (that is really just me and 2 guests) freestyle, again, the podcast speaking about some news that were interesting for us. Something about graphene, Gallium and Platypus milk. Follow a...

Ep.2 About programming, software and then into what we like around PCs and tech from 2018-06-08T14:47:17

In this second episode we freestyle the approach a little more and we go from a more serious talk about programming to a free for all discussion about tech, the future and what we enjoy software wi...

Ep.1 The beginning, about us and a computer from 2018-06-08T14:43:57

In the first episode we try to start easy, a bit about our self and the beginning of the mini series "introduction to computers". If most of the people know how a car works, they should also know h...