Why they didn't test for comprehension of the text? This is a huge flaw of this study
We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed
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Re: We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed
#42There's no shortcuts to anything in life. Thinking so is a fool's errand. You get better at reading by reading and deliberately practicing it. Speed reading is a completely different skill than comprehension. Comprehension is a completely different skill than entertaining yourself. The fundamentals aren't going anywhere. They'll be here when you realize speedreading, bionic reading, and summaries are just distraction…
Pretty much all human inventions are short cuts.
Wheels, cars, computer etc.
Re: We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed
#43Here’s what appears to be an independent review of Spritz: https://www.tsw.it/wp-content/uploads/Rapid-serial-visual-pr... One of the issues with tests like these is that the companies sponsor the research and they are one-off vs long exposure studies; that is as with most interfaces with high-throughput, takes time for the mind to adjust. My guess that given human speech appears to have a universal transmission rate…
> human speech appears to have a universal transmission rate of around 39-bits per second
This is unacceptable, we need a modern language that packs information tighter!
Re: We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed
#44I'm not surprised at all. Maybe I'm just older, have seen more, and have a better tuned BS meter.
This is just the 2022 version of Spritz(2014). Before that...
SQ4R - Survey/question/read/recite/reflect/review
Gummy bear trick - Place candy/gummy bears on the pages and eat them as you read them.
SparkNotes - Read someone else's summary of what you need to absorb.
Re: We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed
#45Here’s what appears to be an independent review of Spritz: https://www.tsw.it/wp-content/uploads/Rapid-serial-visual-pr... One of the issues with tests like these is that the companies sponsor the research and they are one-off vs long exposure studies; that is as with most interfaces with high-throughput, takes time for the mind to adjust. My guess that given human speech appears to have a universal transmission rate…
> human speech appears to have a universal transmission rate of around 39-bits per second This is unacceptable, we need a modern language that packs information tighter!
We need to start in schools, teaching our children to speak in zstd. It could more than triple their throughput!
Re: We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed
#46This fits with my experience so I believe it!
That said, I did feel like the bionic rendering made me more likely to read every word as opposed to skimming sentences. It also made reading feel more "percussive" which can be fun. Definitely an interesting line of inquiry even if it's over-hyped.
Re: We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed
#47Here’s what appears to be an independent review of Spritz: https://www.tsw.it/wp-content/uploads/Rapid-serial-visual-pr... One of the issues with tests like these is that the companies sponsor the research and they are one-off vs long exposure studies; that is as with most interfaces with high-throughput, takes time for the mind to adjust. My guess that given human speech appears to have a universal transmission rate…
> human speech appears to have a universal transmission rate of around 39-bits per second This is unacceptable, we need a modern language that packs information tighter!
Not a language, but a font: https://dotsies.org/
Discussed in HN multiple times https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18703805
Re: We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed
#48Hopefully in the future, language models will be able to read books for us and summarize whether or not they’re worthwhile. Bumping from 200 wpm to 300 wpm doesn’t put a dent in the 100+ million books circulating in print. Unrelated Readwise questions (love the work y’all do, thank you!) - any idea when the chrome app will support multiple highlights in one go? - is there a random quote API that references all source…
Sounds like a book review.
Re: We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed
#49There's no shortcuts to anything in life. Thinking so is a fool's errand. You get better at reading by reading and deliberately practicing it. Speed reading is a completely different skill than comprehension. Comprehension is a completely different skill than entertaining yourself. The fundamentals aren't going anywhere. They'll be here when you realize speedreading, bionic reading, and summaries are just distraction…
I use text to speech… it absolutely is a short cut and without and doubt it improves my reading comprehension, stamina, and speed..
I can even look away from the screen and still follow along.
It has changed my life and introduced me to so much more information that I would have otherwise not attained with manual reading.
Eye scanning and mental vocalization are really tiring on my brain. Text to speech has solved both of these problems.
I think there’s something about adding a new dimension (auditory) that also helps with memorizing and comprehension. It adds more data points for my Bayesian brain to use and associate with.
Re: We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed
#50Here’s what appears to be an independent review of Spritz: https://www.tsw.it/wp-content/uploads/Rapid-serial-visual-pr... One of the issues with tests like these is that the companies sponsor the research and they are one-off vs long exposure studies; that is as with most interfaces with high-throughput, takes time for the mind to adjust. My guess that given human speech appears to have a universal transmission rate…
> human speech appears to have a universal transmission rate of around 39-bits per second This is unacceptable, we need a modern language that packs information tighter!
I know you're probably joking, but for those out of the loop, the result your parent was referring to is that more verbose languages have faster speakers and the two effects compensate one another pretty well.