YouTube at 2x with captions can speed this to less than 78 seconds. "Less than " to account for advertising.
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
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Re: Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to watch a lot of lectures at a high speed. But I've came to realize that the faster I watch something, the faster I forget it. It is like the infromation doesn't have the time to settle in my memory, despite me understanding it. It's maybe because when things are slow, I can use the dead time to think about the implication/corner cases of what's being said.
If you really want to understand it, I would encourage you to write down notes about it by hand. For some reason I do not yet understand, the motion of physically putting pen(cil) to paper helps ingrain that information into your brain, in a way that typing it into a computer does not.
Also, I was amazed at how listening twice to a history lecture really helped my retention. I'd listen while walking to my next campus class.
Re: Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
#263Curiously, this is also why memes are much better at conveying complicated political or sociological ideas faster and more efficiently than a few paragraphs on the topic.