Reminds me of the tricks in Buzan's Speed Reading Book[0] but using a computer rather than a stylus to guide the eye.
Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
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#202I have some feedback regarding the testimonial from “Sangeeth”, whose Memoji shows a Sikh person. Did the user choose their Memoji? The two don’t go together well for reasons of odd cultural differences in the Roman/Latin transliteration of sounds in the south and the north of India. The -th- cluster represents the dental t, IPA /t/, but only in South India. In the North the same sound is represented by -t-. Therefor…
It’s just an emoji, not a Memoji ( https://emojipedia.org/man-wearing-turban-medium-dark-skin-t... ) It’s probably a review written by somebody with a brown skin tone. Page authors don’t know the social intricacies of what constitutes Sikhs and chose this one as “close enough”.
There’s probably some sort of important lesson here…
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree 100%. This is amazingly innovative. We have seen letter switching examples and how the brain will try to fill in the gaps. This is superbly unique and justifiably a patent and trademark. The demo works. The rules may be simple. But as the old boat repairman story says, sometimes you need to know where to hit the hammer. Please, please don't use this for evil.
Thank you very much for your answer. No, I will definitely use it for good. For sure. Best regards from the Alps Renato
I agree with the criticism and this response! Glad to see you engaging in here. Go go go!
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#204Works for me and my partner. Very impressive, I wish you the best. However, I think you're trying to capture something that's too big and elusive to be captured. If this improves peoples ability to consume information with a relatively trivial change (not calling your technology trivial, but relative to other infrastructure costs, it is), then there is no way that you won't see hundreds of spinoffs by companies and open source engineers, even if they are inferior products. And if you try suing them all, you will become the enemy in the public eye.
How do you plan to make money at the scale that this system could apply at, without alienating the world by forcing text flow through your system or pay some kind of royalty?
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#205I have some feedback regarding the testimonial from “Sangeeth”, whose Memoji shows a Sikh person. Did the user choose their Memoji? The two don’t go together well for reasons of odd cultural differences in the Roman/Latin transliteration of sounds in the south and the north of India. The -th- cluster represents the dental t, IPA /t/, but only in South India. In the North the same sound is represented by -t-. Therefor…
Hi kranner I didn't mean to offend you. Or misrepresent the culture with a memoji. Sorry. If you feel it's out of order, then I can change it too. But what is more crucial for me is what Sangeeth said. And that is more important to me. By the way, all testimonials are real. 100%
> Hi kranner I didn't mean to offend you. Or misrepresent the culture with a memoji. Sorry. If you feel it's out of order, then I can change it too. But what is more crucial for me is what Sangeeth said. And that is more important to me. By the way, all testimonials are real. 100%
I think that the general idea is that either you're guessing at the appropriate representation of the testifying users, or that they've picked those emoji. If the latter, then all is good! If the former, then it's generally a bad idea to assume that you know something about a person based on their name, or even, really, anything other than their implicit election. (I would certainly be upset if a business to whom I had offered a testimonial used it and misidentified me, even in ways that may seem trivial, especially if they could have just asked me.)
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#206This reminds me of BeeLine Reader: https://www.beelinereader.com/
BeeLine founder here; interested to see this. My first reaction was that the "before" text in the before/after demonstration is both thin and grey.
It is well known that text that is too thin and too light-colored is not great to read. The text modification shown here makes certain letters easier to read, but it appears this is partially because the rest of the text is specifically difficult to read. The background of the page very light grey, it looks like, which would magnify this effect even more.
I wonder what this would look like with a not-too-thin-font that is black or near-black. I also wonder what it looks like on a full-width paragraph, as the sibling commenter mentioned.
Regardless, it's always nice to see innovation in this space!
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#207I found this to be an unbelievable improvement in reading for me. It was automatic and effortless. I cannot believe how much faster that helped me to read without sacrificing on comprehension.
Unreal. Reading the non-bionic (?) text on the website suddenly felt like a sluggish chore, and for the first time I am realizing that I am actively using not insignificant amounts of energy to mentally parse text.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi kranner I didn't mean to offend you. Or misrepresent the culture with a memoji. Sorry. If you feel it's out of order, then I can change it too. But what is more crucial for me is what Sangeeth said. And that is more important to me. By the way, all testimonials are real. 100%
> Hi kranner I didn't mean to offend you. Or misrepresent the culture with a memoji. Sorry. If you feel it's out of order, then I can change it too. But what is more crucial for me is what Sangeeth said. And that is more important to me. By the way, all testimonials are real. 100% I think that the general idea is that either you're guessing at the appropriate representation of the testifying users, or that they've pi…
In addition to pronouns, let's include emojis that we feel identify ourselves
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#209> Bionic reading aims to encourage a more in-depth reading and understanding of written content by reading faster? I mean the examples are pretty compelling and it did feel like I was reading faster, but at the same time their goals are at odds - faster reading doesn't necessarily mean more attentive reading, or being able to absorb more information. Still, interesting technique. I just wish they made their examples…
I saw it as "reading with less effort" and "faster" is kind of a shorthand for "less likely to get bored waiting for my eyes to catch up".
I'd be more likely to read a longer piece of text (average content, not something I'm deeply interested in) if it was "easier" to read -- I get through it faster, or have to make less effort to get to the end.
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#210Not sure if this intentional or just because this site is unfinished, but the repetition of the same paragraph throughout the page probably has the effect of making you believe you've read it faster, but it's more likely just recent familiarity of those words in that order that is allowing your brain to skip ahead rather than a specific visual cue. I actually found the 'bumpiness' in reading a distraction and I had t…
I had the same suspicion -- I think they'd do better to have different snippets of text across the different examples.