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I was very impressed. To the point where I got scared about how fast I could read and if I was losing control of the content going into my brain. Is there an app that can 'un-bolden' letters so I can slow my brain back down.
Are there any actual studies on the gained speed being done by Independent scientists? I could not finde anything on their (quite beautifully done) marketing/landing page. I see patent registrations, but no mention of any studies underpinning the claims being made. To me this smells like all the other pseudo-scientific BS marketing and product people are trying to spoon-feed me every day. Also as said in a sibling co…
We have just completed the preliminary study but I cannot publish any results yet. And you are right, of course. It does not help everyone. That's the way it is. But there is a lot of feedback thanking us and hoping that it will be available to as many services as possible.
So as said - there will be people who benefit from this. Still - being an empiricist I just like to see independent and scientifically valid representative studies being done before I believe marketing claims. ;-)
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Haha...nice The basic problem with reading is that your eye needs a fixed point...that's why they should be "blocks". This one doesn't have to be at the very beginning though ;) But cool comment Hehe
True. You made me remember a different concept, where words would flash at the same point, but centered around some fixed highlighted character per word. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ky8DP55YEO0 Edit: but thank you for sharing your concept here, very interesting, and I like the discussions it created.
I have started to watch more videos at > real-time speeds. Depends on the quality of the video but can get at least x1.25 and upto x1.75 without my brain frying. Instead of reading what if this was text->speech at a multiple?
I started doing this too.
But mostly because it helps with those videos where the speaker is speaking about an interesting topic but is speaking very slowly, or with large gaps or with many fillers. It helps making the viewing experience much more bearable.
Going constructive on the HN comments, if someone found something, you got a right to protect and earn from it anyway, charging for however a simple idea helps it spread and let's you do more innovation on it. But that said, maybe a library with paid access is a better idea than api which needs to travel across 14 seas and 7 oceans!
I couldn't find anyone else with my experience: No change at all. I wasn't faster or slower on either side, as far as I could tell.
What! This blew me. This magic happening before my eyes. Forget the negative comments here on HN, the fact that you had such an insight, it's awesome. Going constructive on the HN comments, if someone found something, you got a right to protect and earn from it anyway, charging for however a simple idea helps it spread and let's you do more innovation on it. But that said, maybe a library with paid access is a better…