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Not a summary, but kind of like a lossless re-encoding for maximum human efficiency.
You could even allow custom reader profiles that take into account things like vocabulary an subject expertise.
There'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 bo…
Any app/software you can recommend?
There'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…
This is trivially disprovable; it's easy to think of longcuts, ways to accomplish or learn something inefficiently. There would be no difference between a great teacher and a terrible teacher otherwise. Or a great coach and a terrible coach.
I don't know if this is because the subject matter is novel, or that the authors are better at math and science than writing.
I wonder if there could be a standard for grading a research paper on readability to raise the status quo.
Hey everyone, this is the follow up post to the experiment posted here on Hacker News a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31826204 . I'll be hanging out in the replies today if there are any questions I can answer :)
Is there a way for me to buy you a coffee (or some cash equivalent)? I'd love to incentivize such rigor in online discourse.
An obvious way is to try out readwise ;) but I mostly read online articles and (pirated) books, so I'm not sure I'm a good use case.
Hey everyone, this is the follow up post to the experiment posted here on Hacker News a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31826204 . I'll be hanging out in the replies today if there are any questions I can answer :)
Completely unsurprising. The bottleneck in reading is not visual recognition of words or eye movements. Source: decades of actual research on this topic.
First line: tl;dr. Actually no, the results will probably not surprise you
fuck this
There'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 bo…
What about instead an AI project that rewrites content for fastest consumption and easiest comprehension? Not a summary, but kind of like a lossless re-encoding for maximum human efficiency. You could even allow custom reader profiles that take into account things like vocabulary an subject expertise.
Completely unsurprising. The bottleneck in reading is not visual recognition of words or eye movements. Source: decades of actual research on this topic.
I don't know if they still do it, but at the time they were showing off these weird baggies you put over your arms like oversized mittens and ran coolant through.
We know sleeping helps with memory retention. We know that NSAIDs influence experiences of emotional pain. What other folk remedies and completely random things also work on memory? I forget, is caffeine now established wisdom or do they keep going back and forth on that?