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JackTrip

ccrma.stanford.edu

A System for High-Quality Audio Network Performance over the Internet

JackTrip supports bidirectional, high quality, uncompressed audio steaming with any number of channels.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts

lemire.me

I claim that hardly any science at all gets taught in high school. You tell kids that matter is made of atoms which are made of small nucleus surrounded by electrons, at different energy levels. That was taught to one of my sons in high school. Then I asked “how do the scientists know this?” Blank stare. Science is not learning about the charge of the electron by reading a book. If that is all it were, it would be no different than pre-scientific knowledge. No. Science begins when you ask yourself how we can verify what is in the book. How should you teach science? You should essentially teach people to read or listen with constructive skepticism. If you are going to teach science, you must give it in a historical context: you must stress how our current knowledge is the accumulation of course corrections. You must stress how it is a work in progress.

Take a tour of HEY

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Via Coleman, a great video tour of the new HEY email platform.

I didn’t watch the whole thing, but I saw enough to a) pique my interest and b) have a little nostalgia for the time when Apple would have done this sort of thing in the Mac Mail.app directly. I miss this sort of innovation from them—just plain making an already-established technology that much better and more pleasant to use. It’s not as game-changing as AR or seamless syncing of your documents across all of your platforms, but it’s practical and helpful and solves a big problem for millions of people. Sigh.