Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

Post by carapace » Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 1:03 AM UTC

ratrocket wrote: post #220

carapace wrote: post #190

This presumes you're scanning lines but if you really want to speed read you should scan whole blocks of text as you draw the eye down, there should be little to no horizontal movement when you're really reading fast. - - - - An interesting and effective method of speed reading is Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP). These days it's mostly used in the context of psychological/perception studies, but it came about…

> There's an interesting effect where you can take some text and, for each word longer than ~5 letters [...] I think you're referring to this (dubbed "Typoglycemia"): > Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are [...] It's sort of true (although there was never any research at Cambridge that anyone has been able to unearth), but it's way more limited that "…

Post by kranner » Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 1:50 AM UTC

JadeNB wrote: post #250

hunter-gatherer wrote: post #244

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Let's just take the emojis away if we all can't get along with them.

It certainly seems clear that renato_cassutt, who it is clear can taken constructive criticism and who has given very useful replies throughout the comments, meant no-one any harm; and neither I nor, I am sure, kranner meant to impute any ill intent. I can understand the appeal of pictorial representations of one's users; I was just, and I suspect that kranner was also, trying to mention the possible inadvertent offe…

Post by aiisjustanif » Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 3:30 AM UTC

oauea wrote: post #226

renato_casutt wrote: post #52

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I am alone and I put all my money, time and work into BR. Visible is only a small part. But I think everyone decides for themselves what is best. But thank you for the critical feedback.

You put all your money, time and work into bolding the first few letters of a word?

Post by irutiw22 » Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 7:21 AM UTC

osullip wrote: post #63

rapnie wrote: post #34

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Yes, I agree. I guess this technology isn't for everyone. This is a real bummer. They did not have to patent and trademark this method, which in principle is such a basic mechanism. Just had to productize their service really well so they'd take the lead in monetizing.

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.

Post by irutiw22 » Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 7:36 AM UTC

LewisVerstappen wrote: post #170

cushychicken wrote: post #97

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Because these folks deserve to eat and pay rent for a few years upon discovering something so useful.

If we expect everyone to innovate and build useful tools solely out of the goodness of their heart, then we can expect far fewer useful tools & innovations in the future.