57: Smorgasbord of Pronunciation
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2014
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up on the complexity of computer science versus other fields: quotes and videos from MIT's SICP class (9:00–10:45).
- The death of the iPad 2, the use of sapphire in Apple devices, sapphire versus Gorilla Glass, and the flexible LG phone.
- Haunted Empire, the Jony Ive book, the Jony Ive interview, access to Apple, and hiring hacks for tech stories.
- Sony's Project Morpheus VR headset and initial impressions
- The Oculus Rift
- Michael Abrash's blog posts:
- Two Possible Paths into the Future of Wearable Computing Part 1
- When it comes to resolution, it's all relative
- Latency – the sine qua non of AR and VR
- Raster-Scan Displays: More Than Meets the Eye
- Game Developers Conference and space-time diagrams
- Why virtual isn't real to your brain
- Down the VR rabbit hole: Fixing judder
- John Carmack and his latency mitigation strategies
- Casey's birthday party as a child
- Why Oculus hopes Project Morpheus is good
- The GitHub hubbub, sexism, and how to get better (such as App Camp for Girls).
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| 0:00.0 | So, do we have any topics tonight? |
| 0:02.0 | Not really. We have a little bit of follow-up and then, honestly, I have no clue what the rest of the show is going to bring. |
| 0:07.0 | So, it's going to be a little wild. |
| 0:09.0 | Wacky Wild Casey, let's see what happens now. |
| 0:12.0 | Woo! |
| 0:15.0 | So, we should probably do some follow-up, starting with computer science, John. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, this is a little bit of follow-up on the software, the complexity of software and computing and all that of the stuff. |
| 0:26.0 | Lots of follow-up on that and all sorts of different directions. |
| 0:29.0 | So, a few themes I noticed in the feedback. |
| 0:31.0 | One theme was a lot of people who either are involved in academia or feel some connection to it. |
| 0:37.0 | And what they wanted to talk about was sort of field versus field. |
| 0:41.0 | They're field versus someone else's field. |
| 0:43.0 | Whatever their field may be, physics, chemistry, engineering, computer science, math. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't know if they misunderstood the discussion as if it was computer science versus other fields, but that sure is the discussion they wanted to have. |
| 0:56.0 | And it reminded me of this quote again from, you know, as the original place I see all quotes apparently is using that six. |
| 1:03.0 | And this one is computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. |
| 1:08.0 | I'll have a link to what we can put in the show notes I forget where the origin is, but the little hash on the URL is disputed. |
| 1:14.0 | So, maybe it's disputed where that quote comes from. |
| 1:16.0 | But anyway, that I think gets to the heart of why we weren't talking about fields, computer science versus any other field. |
| 1:23.0 | Because computer science is not about computers. |
| 1:26.0 | We were talking about software. |
| 1:28.0 | And computer science is tangentially about software, but not really. |
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