Three Sins of Authors
I have been reviewing manuscripts for journal publication. I recently found Jonathan Shewchuk's essay Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math which sums of much of the "style" feedback I've been giving to authors.
New BBC Radio 3 streams
TL;DR -- Plug http://lstn.lv/bbc.m3u8?station=bbc_radio_three&bitrate=320000 into the streaming player of your choice. Be happy! For audio streaming, I use Volumio running on a RaspberryPi 4 with a HiFiBerry DAC . Set up was simple and there's a smart phone ap for remote control. The reminder of my set up is a Dayton Audio DTA-1 "T Amp" , driving a pair of Wharfedale Diamond 5 loudspeakers (designed by my friend and coauthor, Richard Lee). Great sound for about $250. I use Volumio's DSP plug in to add a couple of dB of bass below 80 Hz, and 2.5 dB of treble above 4 kHz. This setup worked well with the BBC's legacy 128 kbit/sec MP3 Shoutcast streams, but the BBC shut them down about a year ago. A couple of months before the MP3 streams ended, I found a GitHub "gist" with the URLs of their new MPEG-4 DASH streams [1]. For listeners outside the UK, the highest bit rate available was 96 kbit/sec. With MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding (A...
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