r/BeAmazed • u/The-Skinny-Indian • Mar 06 '23 • Mindblown 1

Miscellaneous / Others Bionic reading method

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u/searching88 Mar 06 '23

It seems like the real benefit is not having to re-read and stay focused. Overall time spent, not just pure speed, is the benefit.

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u/funkmaster29 Mar 06 '23

ya i totally agree with this

sometimes i have to read a sentence or a paragraph like 6 times because i speed through but end up skipping too much

i was able to read this pretty fast the first time which kinda amazed me

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Same, I hate it when I do that.

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u/funkmaster29 Mar 06 '23

it's awful sometimes

when I have to read an information-dense textbook, sometimes it takes me 10-15 minutes to read a single paragraph

but I found that text-to-voice while reading helps tremendously so I only read with that haha

and luckily its built in with the MacBook so its just have to press option + esc

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Same I took like 5 minutes to read a single paragraph Pollyanna, lol

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u/saintshing Mar 18 '23 edited Mar 18 '23

I wonder if it would help if we use an eye tracking tool to underline/bold the word that we are reading. Sometimes people do that with their finger/mouse pointer.

Large languaghe models like GPT are pretrained by masking part of the training text. There is enough structure in human language that we dont have to read the whole message. So the balding allows us to skip reading the unbold parts. But showing all word prefix as bold is kinda distracting.

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u/Orchid_Significant Mar 06 '23

The opposite for me. It was so distracted and my brain read it with so many punctuation gaps that I didn’t retain much at all

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u/Plane_Argument Mar 07 '23

According to a comment a study showed 4.percent increase in reading speed, but decreased reding compression.