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I can read at the highest setting of openspritz https://t.co/3eBCpNpKQe but that doesn't work on a slow refresh rate eink displays.Been thinking on how to go no-display, but I can't find any screenreaders with clean enough dictation to go beyond ~450wpm https://t.co/j6np5sNP0y
Guinness book for world records rates talking speed of rap in syllables per second. They had a fun challenge placing a record holding rapper vs a record holding cording(?) keyboardist (court room recorder).High speed is easier with rap b/c of the rhyme.https://t.co/91yjU1hq9d
Buffer's blog on the topic of speed reading is pretty good start if you wanna explore the space and have no idea where to begin."I just sit in my office and read all day." — Warren Buffetthttps://t.co/Utfg9nUkgo
The post mentions @tferriss's "Perceptual Expansion" technique, which is a good way to think about what I'm doing to increase my speed.I'm at a point where I think if I am to improve more, I either need an entirely new way to approach, or eye tracking to measure hangups.
Something I've been playing with is removing the spacing between lines and mentally mapping what I see (so 3-5 lines at a time). But I think I need to train my eyes to scan horizontally reliably, or use some kind of overlay.Non linear reading ala photographic memory techniques?
I'm struggling with it though because there are times when my brain seems to hallucinate words. It is super annoying because, like how I write amphibolically, my brain's is filling it in with words that still makes sense in that space. Takes me a couple of lines until I catch on.
I've noticed that it also seems to be filling it in based on pattern recognition of some kind. If the formatting looks roughly like a tweet, with a picture and a short bit of text where the name would go, my brain instinctively inserts a familiar @-name in.TFW I am computer. 🤖
Fascinating to think that I am hitting a speed-accuracy trade-off somewhere in my brain's processing of written language.I've noticed it coincides with i'm in a more creative mood. Experimenting with it, also happens more if I drink a cup or two of wine, or coming off a cold.
Been thinking a lot about how life circumstances seem to bias the way that people handle information. I read that article on how Steven Wolfram handles his productivity and wondered how he would have done things differently if he had some constraints on it like I had.
At one point I had a similar system as him and heading in that direction. I would still be using OneNote+Folders Hierarchically, and a closed repository of folders if I hadn't stumbled into wiki style interlinked structures and migrated to the version that had [[interlinking]].
I didn't have an army of people to scan documents, but I also started out at a point where most of my content was already digitized thanks to Tablet PCs. And being more mobile due to life situations, I had even set up the sync'ing thing between PCs like he had.
But all of that is inspired from thinking from before Operational Transforms and notion of structuring real-time collaboration at data level (vs screen/mouse/input sharing). Biased by ideas originating out of batch processing, raw file management, CVS style version control.
To the extent that my ideal structure was similar to wolfram's; I had even bought a cheap laptop case for my EeePc and retrofitted with some straps to make it wearable. I had patterned it off what appears to be the same brand he bought for his walking desk.
At one point I was using his scheme for how I organized OneNote (which is basically a folder system with a notebook structure). Complete w/ folders called "ARCHIVES" and project oriented structure. Wonder if we consumed same lineages of organization ideas & how to be paperless.
For a while I had used the nnn style numbering, but I eventually started using YYYY-MM-DD since tends to sort properly when organized by name.I think that's where I diverged; I began using symlinks to index into a project's content that wasn't in OneNote.
I stopped needing to spend so much time obessing over the folder structure. Logging all my ideas spaced out in time, then adding structure thru the symlinks meant my content could evolve like a network.I stumbled into it because the EeePC couldn't store everything on main ssd.
I never would have realized that I could interlink other people's ideas - collaborating more stigmergically (with both my self, future me, and other people's content) - if I never needed to learn that file linking magic to get windows to run in a constrained environment.
Thats why I'm thinking about other ways of consuming content. By going off trail & exploring other ways of 'reading', I'm hoping I might find a better way to read. Finding stuff overlooked for not ever having to experience constraints. Evolving.https://t.co/djoYVyxAdX
The post mentions @tferriss's "Perceptual Expansion" technique, which is a good way to think about what I'm doing to increase my speed.I'm at a point where I think if I am to improve more, I either need an entirely new way to approach, or eye tracking to measure hangups.
Thinking about this piece a lot lately. https://t.co/abfRuH7Dgs
I wonder if the people at @inkandswitch have seen https://t.co/zEodE1vr5P
Looks like openspritz (an open source Spritz) has been renamed to Glance.https://t.co/bz4tHH6yK1
I finally got around to exporting a rather long conversation I had back in January with a friend. Discussed how I am able to read so fast and what I do to process information.Goes into neurodiversity and some of my ideas on neurodegenerative processes.https://t.co/Mlc8xipNzt
There's a vision impaired programmer who can listen at 450wpm. https://t.co/kHoGtZcVWXHave you considered optimizing for IO?https://t.co/tIueP2sel6
most people speak about 150 words per minute, and read 200 wpm. most type about 50 wpm and listen around 150 wpm. speech-to-text is the optimal interface that gets us closest to thinking velocity. yet our thinking is mostly limited and constrained by our language.
You can... Uh... Just listen to more than one conversation at once if you wanna. Why limit yourself to one audio stream. A good musician can decompose a song into it's instruments. Do this for speech!"You can't"? You're wrong. People just don't know how.https://t.co/8rYt7Ii8Dx
scientists scan 28 people's brains and conclude you can't listen to more than one conversation at once.Bah.https://t.co/BtpM8woRyt
Have you considered that there are people who's brains can do really fun things, but we're just missing a nutrient?https://t.co/YPr4NYtN7I
There's all sorts of variations in how people handle the cocktail party effect. In Schizophrenia, for example, we see impairments here. https://t.co/VopLAJ0INW
And in autism we see weirdness where non-verbal types have no problem with cock-tail party effect, but Verbally fluent ones do. Its weird.https://t.co/358r2nrO6Y
Of course this implies that there are potentially people out there who can listen to more than one conversation at once.I know they exist because I know I've been able to do this since grade school. https://t.co/x9jVWInD4B
"Non-verbal is a misleading word because it conjures up ideas that a person who cannot speak cannot understand words either. That is far from the truth. The truth for me is that I love words and express myself most fluently with words."https://t.co/pa87EjhBto
My ability to do this is variable tho. The processing of sounds fluxuates quite widely, correlating with with my mental state tied to autistic meltdowns. https://t.co/BkWnvtrWdV
One of the most profound things I notice is that when I am able to reacquire my 'voice' during meltdown states, I am still unable to plan or 'think' in any meaningful way. I am simply able to articulate my state, where I couldn't before.https://t.co/V9UWmecEEi
Weirdly, it also coincides with handwriting ability.https://t.co/EoThlJazZC
Probably some deeply impactful brain metabolism thing tied to rhythm and IQ.https://t.co/nAcIdB5WF7
Its weird how mood and ability to understand music / control motor movement correlate. Almost like there's some underlying brain thing happening here.https://t.co/SIXEOZmW9jhttps://t.co/GQXaVLyypc https://t.co/85YhXwyh5s
I'd bet money that people on low dose shrooms who get better music ability and synesthesia are going to also have improved cocktail-party effects.The limit isn't language. Become limitless.https://t.co/PdQigbzmI7
@emollick @paulg It's all about brain blood flow. I've been working the past 8 years of my life to fix my brain. I did it via gut bacteria.I now have 5 sense synesthesia and have full access to my hyperthymesia (not just visual).https://t.co/vYhZOwBKLO https://t.co/vkAUFVDBFl
Learn to hear better. Learn to speak.https://t.co/GnZI5uACSI
Open the third eye. Unlock Crown chakra.https://t.co/EAe6xODL1P
Become Post Human with me anon.https://t.co/pElNeEHc1N
I'm Post Rat. In fact I'm into squirrels now. I figured out how to make them (and chipmunks) not afraid of me."One study used these scent markings to help overcome neophobia with lures by mixing grease, dust, hair and scent marks within urinary pillars."https://t.co/xzeIEgS2yJ https://t.co/GHoX8rSYYm
Reading is dumb, just understand things bruh.https://t.co/pdkGAwxcY0