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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • I would also guess the smaller range of hardware revisions is easier to keep track of when considering something as device specific as microphone frequency response curves or approximate intrinsic camera calibration values, thus simplifying the post-processing or data ingestion from an aggregate deployment of recording equipment.

    While Android devices are probably significantly cheaper, they’d vary quite a bit in terms of microphone, camera, and lens manufacturers, not to mention ADCs, gain to noise ratios and cheapest firmware, depending on what the OEM felt like swapping to for that minor product revision.

    Not sure how precise these researchers are trying to calibrate and rectify field measurements, but if they’re using internal phone sensors rather then external AV peripherals, then homogeneity across field computers would simply matters of data uniformity.

















  • Did anyone else growing up have a vinyl record player as a kid? My dad brought his out of storage one year because it had a number of old Christmas albums. So over the Christmas holiday, I’d rotate through the entire collection, yet some of the records we’re much shorter like singles, or much older in production precision, so they came in smaller diameters and took faster feed rates. When switching back from the smaller to the larger diameters, I did forget to turn down the rotary speed, and so we’d inevitably start listening to old Christmas carols and ballards as if they were being sung by the Chipmunks.