Achieving 2.4kbps audio encoding of speech with decent quality! https://auphonic.com/blog/2018/06/01/codec2-podcast-on-floppy-disk/
Discusses applying machine learning to the decoder with extremely impressive results.
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I find that I'm choosing AI tools based on the quality of the harness rather than the model.
For example, I'm using Claude Code Web because its model of remote VMs is extremely convenient. I'm using Perplexity because it's tuned really well for web searches.
What piece of syntax has the most different meanings?
I realised today that `as` is extremely overloaded. It can be used for aliasing imports (Python), type casts (Rust), binding pattern match variables (OCaml), type assertions (Hack) and probably many others.
I'm still pleasantly surprised when difftastic does a good job. Here's an example I saw today: adding a new variable with or_else() is extremely readable!
