Episode 440: Sound encoding: from LP to digital

2024-03-28 22:00:00

Episode 440 with Thierry and Sébastien S.

Press review :

• A for Autonomous (00:03:11): When a robot puts its hand on your butt.
An “autonomous” robot touches a presenter’s buttocks. (Source : 20min.ch)

• C for Cosmetics (00:08:35): When you no longer buy water.
A startup offers powdered shower gels and shampoos that you can mix yourself. (Sources: techcrunch.com et maddyness.com)

• F for Fruit (00:13:28): When your robot harvests fruit gently.
Scientists have developed a device capable of gentleness, which could pick up fruits without crushing them. (Source : lematin.ch)

• P for Programming (00:22:33): When the White House hands out the good points.
The White House recommends certain programming languages. (Sources: lemondeinformatique.fr et whitehouse.gov)

• S like Sextant (00:28:25): When you bring out the good old tools.
Faced with the risk of cyberattack, the French Navy is equipping itself with sextants. (Source : lepoint.fr)

• T for Transform (00:36:56): When attention is all we need.
A quick look back at Google’s invention: transformers and the 8 researchers who published the original paper. (Sources: wired.com, arxiv.org et youtube.com)

File: From microgroove to 32-bit floating point (00:45:44)
• Cylinders and discs (Source: wikipedia.org)
• Scanning techniques (Sources: education.fr et wikipedia.org)
• Compression with or without loss (Sources: wikipedia.org et wikipedia.org)
• Lossless, a real Holy Grail? (Sources: gizmodo.com et numerama.com)
• 32-bit floating point (Sources: zoomcorp.com, tascam.eu et afsi.eu)