A recurrent neural network for improving voice quality on an unreliable connection!
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/improving-audio-quality-in-duo-with.html
There's something magical about advances in encoders. Unlike hardware changes, you never know when/if techniques will get better.
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A fun Racket library that allows you to express different retry patterns (higher-order function calls really) for unreliable functions: https://docs.racket-lang.org/retry/retry-guide.html
It's natural to worry about the practicalities of new designs. There's a wonderful discussion in https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/nikon-versus-canon-a-story-of-technology-change-45777098038c about camera owners worrying about *batteries* being unreliable. Times have changed!