624: Do Less Math in Computers
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
- 🗣️ New ATP Movie Club Special! Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Follow-up:
- Honda Prologue vs. GM equivalents (via Matt Rigby)
- Apple insists it’s still going to
make fetch happenship next-generation CarPlay - Handheld gaming PCs are having a moment
- Ryan London is trolling John
- John has so much RAM, he can’t even remember how much he has
- Hyperspace scrolling updates
- Not all phone jacks are created equal (via John Haydon)
- Casey’s notification/LED project
- Garage door ↔ home assistant was already sorted
- ESP32
- Did you know you can just straight-up cut some LED strips‽ (via Kiel Olesen)
- Historical commission application process
- Switch replacement options:
- HomeSeer HS-WX300 (via Drew Stephens)
- Inovelli Smart Dimmer (via everyone, including Drew Stephens)
- DeepSeek causes a tech stock sell-off
- Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber
- Ben Thompson’s FAQ
- DeepSeek-V3 paper
- DeepSeek distilled GPT-4o?
- R1 is more open than OpenAI
- Interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng
- R1 censorship
- Post-show: Marco wants to do some local web development
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Sonos Shakeup
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So I need to issue an apology. |
| 0:02.7 | Okay. |
| 0:03.4 | I'd like to apologize to AirPods Pro adaptive noise cancellation mode. |
| 0:10.9 | A few months ago, we were talking about the AirPods Pro noise canceling modes. |
| 0:16.0 | And I had said, I had tried the adaptive mode for a little while, and I didn't like it, and I switched back, |
| 0:22.4 | and I disabled it from my, like, you know, my cycling when you hold down the stem, |
| 0:26.5 | because it was too, it blocked out too much street noise when I was walking around Manhattan, |
| 0:30.2 | and I just, and I didn't like it. |
| 0:31.6 | I don't entirely agree with you, but I didn't, I never got to the point that I wanted it removed |
| 0:36.7 | from my, you know, cycle of options. |
| 0:38.4 | But I find I very rarely choose adaptive. |
| 0:42.8 | Typically, I'm either doing transparency or full-on cancellation. |
| 0:46.5 | And I'm pretty sure the way we talked about it was because I got the AirPods for and I was asking you guys about the different modes that they do because I didn't know which modes |
| 0:54.3 | was and what they were good for. I think at least at that point you reiterated your opinion |
| 0:57.3 | that you didn't like adaptive. Yeah. And we got a couple of notes from listeners basically saying |
| 1:01.6 | try it again. It's really good. And I tried it again for like, you know, a couple of days and I hated it and I went back. |
| 1:09.2 | Well, in the meantime, I tried it again, |
| 1:14.3 | like another time, and I just left it on. And I realized over the last week or so that I have just |
| 1:24.0 | left it on for like months now. |
| 1:30.3 | And it's fine. |
| 1:32.2 | I don't really think about it anymore. |
| 1:36.4 | I don't really change modes anymore, almost ever. |
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