World-class puzzle champions Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe host Cracking the Cryptic and solve a puzzle on camera every day. They specialize in sudoku variants, tackling mind-bending, seemingly impossible puzzles in real time, sometimes over several hours. They explain strategies for getting stuck, methods for distinguishing human-made puzzles from computer-generated ones, and factors behind the recent surge in puzzle-game addiction. Marc Levoy, a pioneer of computational photography, presents Project Indigo, a new camera app, and reflects on earlier work that helped shape phone photography. The important difference between true HDR and HDR-ish processing is explained, and a caller voices annoyance with phone camera bumps.
Allison Johnson is joined by Simon Anthony and Mark Goodliffe, world-class puzzle champs and hosts of the delightful Cracking the Cryptic, a YouTube channel where they solve a puzzle on camera every single day. They specialize in sudoku - and not just the classic number games you might be familiar with. Simon and Mark tackle mind-bending, seemingly impossible puzzles, working through it all in real time, sometimes over the course of several hours.
Then Allison sits down with Marc Levoy, one of the pioneers of computational photography, to talk about his new camera app: Project Indigo. Levoy is known for his earlier work on the Pixel camera, and was a driving force in shaping phone photography into what it is now. We last caught up with him in 2020 when he left Google for Adobe, so we got up to speed on what the heck he's been doing for the last five years -
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