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Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

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Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

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Post by trogdoro »

adrusi wrote: post #14
trogdoro wrote: post #2

Here's a shorter one. The first one is a bit long: http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple.html If you have any preferences for any stories from gutenberg.org I can add those too.

are these programmatically generated? if so, would it be possible to get a script to make one of these from say an article scraped by instapaper?

You can grab the bookmarklet at dotsies.org to use the font on any web page. If you're referring to going gradually from letters to dots then yes, happy to post the script.

Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

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Post by trogdoro »

gcanyon wrote: post #13
[deleted] wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Maybe I'm just tired, but both of these were near-uninteligable to me even at the beginning. It could also be simply that I'm a bit compulsive about reading -- I find it impossible to gloss over even a single word that I can't puzzle out, so even the first lines stop me in my tracks even though I can read all the words but one or two. In any case, if you have the inclination, a version that started even more gently m…

> if you have the inclination, a version that started even more gently might work better for me.

How's this?

http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple-2.html

Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

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Post by devrim »

quink wrote: post #16

So... if I want the single letter 'B' by itself, it looks exactly the same as the letters A, C, D or E? In other words, 'DE' look exactly the same, without any reference, as 'AB', and there is a haphazard set of similar combinations? I'm not doing that. Learn Braille instead.

think differently. right now our brain processes letter by letter, with dotsies it will become symbol by symbol. i'm reading it for some time, haven't had that difficulty.

there will always be letters next to it anyway, easy to see the base, if you have to.

Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

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Post by xymostech »

trogdoro wrote: post #23
gcanyon wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe I'm just tired, but both of these were near-uninteligable to me even at the beginning. It could also be simply that I'm a bit compulsive about reading -- I find it impossible to gloss over even a single word that I can't puzzle out, so even the first lines stop me in my tracks even though I can read all the words but one or two. In any case, if you have the inclination, a version that started even more gently m…

> if you have the inclination, a version that started even more gently might work better for me. How's this? http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple-2.html

This looks much better. I'll report back when I'm done reading.

Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

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Post by [deleted] »

devrim wrote: post #25
quink wrote: post #16

So... if I want the single letter 'B' by itself, it looks exactly the same as the letters A, C, D or E? In other words, 'DE' look exactly the same, without any reference, as 'AB', and there is a haphazard set of similar combinations? I'm not doing that. Learn Braille instead.

think differently. right now our brain processes letter by letter, with dotsies it will become symbol by symbol. i'm reading it for some time, haven't had that difficulty. there will always be letters next to it anyway, easy to see the base, if you have to.

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Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

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Post by barlo »

devrim wrote: post #25
quink wrote: post #16

So... if I want the single letter 'B' by itself, it looks exactly the same as the letters A, C, D or E? In other words, 'DE' look exactly the same, without any reference, as 'AB', and there is a haphazard set of similar combinations? I'm not doing that. Learn Braille instead.

think differently. right now our brain processes letter by letter, with dotsies it will become symbol by symbol. i'm reading it for some time, haven't had that difficulty. there will always be letters next to it anyway, easy to see the base, if you have to.

A letter is a symbol. This is just switching to new symbols.

Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

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Post by trogdoro »

barlo wrote: post #28
devrim wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

think differently. right now our brain processes letter by letter, with dotsies it will become symbol by symbol. i'm reading it for some time, haven't had that difficulty. there will always be letters next to it anyway, easy to see the base, if you have to.

A letter is a symbol. This is just switching to new symbols.

It sort of makes the words become symbols.

Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story

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Post by trogdoro »

xymostech wrote: post #26
trogdoro wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if you have the inclination, a version that started even more gently might work better for me. How's this? http://dotsies.org/stories/the-runaway-couple-2.html

This looks much better. I'll report back when I'm done reading.

Cool.

Curious if others like this style better than the original link also.

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