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Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking

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Re: Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking

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Post by J3ff3r5 »

bdickason wrote: post #35

Not sure if this helps but I had a similar issue with my joints (arm, shoulder, wrist) where I would scream in pain when lifting a small book or anything above 3 lbs. The issue was caused by my immune system acting up which would cause my tendons to become inflamed. After a year of misdiagnosis, Doctors found some heavy medication (methotrexate balanced with plaquenil) to help regulate it. One of the medicines side e…

It sounds like I was in the same boat as you but I had multiple issues with my left leg.

Saw multiple specialists and had been prescribed multiple different medications all with the same result of nothing but with new issues thanks to some side effects.

One day I decided I wanted to lose some weight and cut down my carb intake down to a very low amount per day. Shortly after making this change to my diet I noticed the problems that I was experiencing with my leg slow started to go away.

I wouldn't say the problems with my legs have completely gone away due to my diet change but it has improved my quality of life significantly.

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Post by DantesKite »

rohith2506 wrote: post #83

I have suffered with thoracic outlet syndrome for almost 2 years. Countless physical therapy and deep tissue massages helped alleviate the pain but nothing seems to solve the root cause. I am 26 and the thought of not being able to use my hands to do something I have frightened the hell out of me. That's when I stumbled upon John Sarno and his book "The mindbody prescription". I thought it's pseudoscience and I read…

I once had a very severe case of insomnia I thought was caused by some medication.

It was such a difficult time for me, and after going through so many different solutions, I eventually discovered a book written by a Harvard doctor that had successfully stopped insomnia in hundreds of patients over several years.

Basically, he discovered that most insomnia is caused by belief. It becomes a vicious cycle that feeds into itself.

I didn't believe it at first. It seems so real, so profoundly difficult for me, but I was desperate and willing to try anything.

So I did. I followed the program precisely as laid out in the book. Made an Excel sheet and everything and gradually through cognitive behavioral therapy, I challenged the thoughts that I would never be able to successfully sleep again (along with careful measuring).

We tense up when we feel anxious. I can imagine that during times of great stress, the body reacts in certain ways that causes certain muscles to stay stuck or not heal, or even just have perceptional problems.

There's already a precedent for it with insomnia. It makes sense.

Thanks for the book recommendation.

Re: Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking

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Post by barbs »

bdickason wrote: post #35

Not sure if this helps but I had a similar issue with my joints (arm, shoulder, wrist) where I would scream in pain when lifting a small book or anything above 3 lbs. The issue was caused by my immune system acting up which would cause my tendons to become inflamed. After a year of misdiagnosis, Doctors found some heavy medication (methotrexate balanced with plaquenil) to help regulate it. One of the medicines side e…

Is that "Ankylosing Spondylitis" ? I have a friend that has that...if it's the same thing I'll pass on your advice, and thank you!

Re: Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking

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Post by ateng »

adamnew123456 wrote: post #98
fctorial wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What languages do you use?

Also along those lines: what keyboard layout? I've never seen a (QWERTY) layout where underscore isn't a shift-level key.

The key issue (pun intended) with normal keyboard is that you use your weakest fingers for ALL of your modifier keys. By shifting that responsibility to your thumbs you greatly reduce your little fingers’ workload (and hence chance of CTS)

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Post by epylar »

joshwcomeau wrote: post #54

Appreciate all the discussion! I touch on this in the article, but I should say: I'm an edge-case when it comes to CTS. Most cases resolve spontaneously. Part of it is that my nerve dislocates when I bend my elbow, and this mobility causes a bunch of additional friction / inflammation. This happens naturally to about 13% of the population, and mine is particularly pronounced. All this to say, if you ever do start to…

Does this sort of thing show up on an MRI? (nerve inflammation/mobility)

Re: Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking

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Post by peanutz454 »

DantesKite wrote: post #112
rohith2506 wrote: post #83

I have suffered with thoracic outlet syndrome for almost 2 years. Countless physical therapy and deep tissue massages helped alleviate the pain but nothing seems to solve the root cause. I am 26 and the thought of not being able to use my hands to do something I have frightened the hell out of me. That's when I stumbled upon John Sarno and his book "The mindbody prescription". I thought it's pseudoscience and I read…

I once had a very severe case of insomnia I thought was caused by some medication. It was such a difficult time for me, and after going through so many different solutions, I eventually discovered a book written by a Harvard doctor that had successfully stopped insomnia in hundreds of patients over several years. Basically, he discovered that most insomnia is caused by belief. It becomes a vicious cycle that feeds in…

Umm... book name would help.

Re: Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking

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Post by whimsicalism »

lunixbochs wrote: post #88
whimsicalism wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding is that Talon is built off of wav2letter's inference framework for ASR.

I do not use the wav2letter@anywhere inference frontend - I trained the acoustic model using the facebook upstream code, but the decoder is almost entirely new, and on Windows I use Pytorch for inference. Talon ships with a libw2l.so/dylib on Linux/Mac built from my open source repos.

Interesting. What model are you using for your acoustic - the streaming convnet?

I didn't know that there was a pytorch implementation of the w2l architectures..

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Post by codebje »

bdickason wrote: post #35

Not sure if this helps but I had a similar issue with my joints (arm, shoulder, wrist) where I would scream in pain when lifting a small book or anything above 3 lbs. The issue was caused by my immune system acting up which would cause my tendons to become inflamed. After a year of misdiagnosis, Doctors found some heavy medication (methotrexate balanced with plaquenil) to help regulate it. One of the medicines side e…

I had pain and weakness in my right wrist for years, and also had many rounds of misdiagnosis.

It turned out to be a benign tumour. Surgery was my answer, but it's only a partial one. It's a soft tissue tumour, the surgeon didn't expect to get all of it, and it's growing back now. It's been about seven years, and I expect I'll need surgery again within seven more years to be able to do simple tasks like lift objects with that hand still.

Sometimes it's not diet - but it's like the old climate change joke. What if I switched to a better diet and a healthier lifestyle, for no good reason?

Re: Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking

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Post by g0ggs »

codebje wrote: post #118
bdickason wrote: post #35

Not sure if this helps but I had a similar issue with my joints (arm, shoulder, wrist) where I would scream in pain when lifting a small book or anything above 3 lbs. The issue was caused by my immune system acting up which would cause my tendons to become inflamed. After a year of misdiagnosis, Doctors found some heavy medication (methotrexate balanced with plaquenil) to help regulate it. One of the medicines side e…

I had pain and weakness in my right wrist for years, and also had many rounds of misdiagnosis. It turned out to be a benign tumour. Surgery was my answer, but it's only a partial one. It's a soft tissue tumour, the surgeon didn't expect to get all of it, and it's growing back now. It's been about seven years, and I expect I'll need surgery again within seven more years to be able to do simple tasks like lift objects…

Would this happen to be a schwannoma? If so, this was the case for me as well. Took a long time and a lot of sleepless nights before an mri found it.

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Post by derekja »

peanutz454 wrote: post #116
DantesKite wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I once had a very severe case of insomnia I thought was caused by some medication. It was such a difficult time for me, and after going through so many different solutions, I eventually discovered a book written by a Harvard doctor that had successfully stopped insomnia in hundreds of patients over several years. Basically, he discovered that most insomnia is caused by belief. It becomes a vicious cycle that feeds in…

Umm... book name would help.

I think “say goodnight to insomnia” is most likely the one they mean.
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