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Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by keeeba »

photios wrote: post #8
markasoftware wrote: post #7

ok, so you can understand the words at 800wpm...can you really comprehend what's being said? When I listen to youtube videos at 2x speed I can usually pick apart all the words just fine but I often have to slow it down to properly process the meaning behind those words.

It's a matter of practice and progression. I listen to podcasts and audiobooks in English at 3x speed, but it took me maybe 2-3 years to get to this level. I understand all casual and technical content just fine. The only thing tripping me is fiction where I struggle with character names that I don't know how to spell (my visual memory needs it!). That's an English-only problem though. I don't have any of those issue…

How have you tested your recall in the long and short term? And what were the results?

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by precompute »

markasoftware wrote: post #7

ok, so you can understand the words at 800wpm...can you really comprehend what's being said? When I listen to youtube videos at 2x speed I can usually pick apart all the words just fine but I often have to slow it down to properly process the meaning behind those words.

I can read at speeds higher than 800wpm and comprehend everything. It's about practice. Although, yes, simpler material is easier to read at higher speeds.

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by photios »

keeeba wrote: post #11
photios wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a matter of practice and progression. I listen to podcasts and audiobooks in English at 3x speed, but it took me maybe 2-3 years to get to this level. I understand all casual and technical content just fine. The only thing tripping me is fiction where I struggle with character names that I don't know how to spell (my visual memory needs it!). That's an English-only problem though. I don't have any of those issue…

How have you tested your recall in the long and short term? And what were the results?

Gut feeling, of course :)

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by collectedparts »

Just FYI OP (assuming OP is the author of the post) there's no margin on your blog. Text goes all the way to the edges.

As a related sidenote, I wonder how quickly ChatGPT replaces much of the customized tools here? ChatGPT is probably pretty proficient at being able to describe the contents of eg a screenshare, or a screenshot of a website.

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by Fokamul »

Big respect to you, I cannot imagine being functional without sight. Pretty interesting post.

"I use my computer during natural pauses in the conversation or presentation."

Casually dropping that everyone is speaking so slow. That you must use the time between sentences for something meaningful, pretty funny. :-)

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by brna-2 »

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #9
elevaet wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI in case you didn't read the article - it's not about LLM coding but about a blind software developer who uses a screenreader at 800wpm to read code. It's really astounding to hear how fast that is I recommend checking it out!

I understand it's about LLM coding, but if I don't put that disclaimer there'll be tons of comments telling me how programming skills are obsolete in the LLM age.

Please read again.

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by brna-2 »

markasoftware wrote: post #7

ok, so you can understand the words at 800wpm...can you really comprehend what's being said? When I listen to youtube videos at 2x speed I can usually pick apart all the words just fine but I often have to slow it down to properly process the meaning behind those words.

I don't know exactly what top speeds I used, above 2.5x, under 5x, but I listened to some lectures on youtube as a background process to doing some work. I would be sure I have missed something, as I worked so I had this practice of just setting the video time back and checking if it is stuff that I already know. I was amazed to see that mostly all data was retained already and I had the feeling of listening to the same stuff twice.

These speeds were already non-comprehensive to my colleagues, but I thought there is no point in trying to get used to higher speeds, and to see the author processing these kinds of flows of data is just inspiring and amazing, Ill try to get better. But I am not planing on listening to code :D

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by brna-2 »

brna-2 wrote: post #17
markasoftware wrote: post #7

ok, so you can understand the words at 800wpm...can you really comprehend what's being said? When I listen to youtube videos at 2x speed I can usually pick apart all the words just fine but I often have to slow it down to properly process the meaning behind those words.

I don't know exactly what top speeds I used, above 2.5x, under 5x, but I listened to some lectures on youtube as a background process to doing some work. I would be sure I have missed something, as I worked so I had this practice of just setting the video time back and checking if it is stuff that I already know. I was amazed to see that mostly all data was retained already and I had the feeling of listening to the s…

I see my limit is now around 3x, and FYI Lex Fridman is much easier on the ears at 3x then the guests. :D

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by brna-2 »

brna-2 wrote: post #18
brna-2 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know exactly what top speeds I used, above 2.5x, under 5x, but I listened to some lectures on youtube as a background process to doing some work. I would be sure I have missed something, as I worked so I had this practice of just setting the video time back and checking if it is stuff that I already know. I was amazed to see that mostly all data was retained already and I had the feeling of listening to the s…

I see my limit is now around 3x, and FYI Lex Fridman is much easier on the ears at 3x then the guests. :D

Also helpful, try listening to something for a minute at higher speeds e.g. 5x and slow down to 2.5x or 3x after that for a warm up.

Re: Software Development at 800 Words per Minute

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Post by evertedsphere »

i've always wondered about the possibility of hybrid visual-audio interfaces for sighted users. a screen reader producing lots of words at the same time that you're looking around the screen—perhaps the visual ui would have to privilege symbols over words, to not force you to perform two language processing tasks at once

imagine the bandwidth

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