episode 232: Ham Means One
John guides Merlin through an unusual form of communication.
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John guides Merlin through an unusual form of communication.
So unusual is this form of communication that its interrogation continues through the members-only bonus episode.
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(Recorded on Tuesday, April 2, 2024)
Credits- Audio Editor: Jim Metzendorf
- Admin Assistance: Kerry Provenzano
- Music: Merlin Mann
- The Suits: Stephen Hackett, Myke Hurley
The learning curve for a Waffle House server can be steep, and even steeper for a cook. The process by which an order cycles from the customer-menu interaction to the final presentation of food is complex, multimodal, and reliant on code-switching.
Hamming codeJohn mistakenly used this name instead of the correct one. (See next link.)
Huffman codingThis is what John should have said.
The XKCD comic about generalized systems Merlin's pegboard Julia Child's kitchen